Vinod Kapri’s 51-minute documentary Can’t Take This Shit Anymore follows six women from Kheisha village in Uttar Pradesh who left their marital homes because there were no toilets. Scroll.in reported on March 25, 2015, that the film won the National Award for Best Film on Social Issues. The specific award result is attributed here to Scroll.in; the Directorate of Film Festivals’ general awards page explains the National Film Awards but does not confirm this film’s result.
What the documentary follows
Kapri’s film centres on six women from Kheisha, in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh. According to Scroll.in’s 2015 report, each had returned to her parents after finding that the home she married into had no toilet. The report describes them as “runaway brides,” but their accounts point to a basic unmet need in their marital homes rather than a simple rejection of marriage.
The women describe going outdoors in groups, around dawn or after dark, to avoid being seen. They also speak of the risk of robbers and molesters. These are experiences reported in the article, not statistics about all rural women. The film’s subject is both the absence of private sanitation and the indignity and exposure that absence can impose.
Why the homes lacked toilets—and whose needs count
Scroll.in frames the absence of toilets alongside household spending priorities: families could spend heavily on weddings while the homes the women entered still lacked toilets. The film raises a question beyond construction itself: when a household decides what to build or provide, are women’s needs treated as essential?
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One free scan finds every outdated or missing driver and matches the right update for your exact hardware.Free scan · exact hardware matchKapri described the filming approach this way: “we managed to make a film on shit without showing shit”. The blunt title names the subject; the reported stories keep attention on the women’s circumstances and the social conditions around them.
What changed after the campaign
Scroll.in reports that local activist Asma Parveen campaigned on the issue and media coverage followed. The article says toilets were then built in the six homes and the women returned to their marital homes. This is the sequence reported in 2015; it does not establish the later condition of those toilets or whether the village’s wider sanitation needs were resolved.
The 2015 figures are historical context, not current estimates
In its March 25, 2015 report, Scroll.in put Kheisha at about 1,500 homes, with between 200 and 250 toilets. The same article quoted Anita Agarwal, an employee of Sulabh International, saying close to 12 crore people out of Uttar Pradesh’s population of 20 crore resorted to open defecation. Those are figures reported in 2015, including Agarwal’s state-level estimate; they should not be read as current prevalence or as measurements made by the film.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.The reported National Award
Scroll.in reported that Can’t Take This Shit Anymore received the National Award in the Best Film on Social Issues category. The Directorate of Film Festivals describes the National Film Awards as government awards decided by a jury, but its general awards page does not verify this film-specific result. The win is therefore best stated as a contemporaneous report by Scroll.in, rather than as independently confirmed here against an official catalogue.
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