Richa Chadha's Love Sonia inspires Mumbai man to donate Rs 8 lakh to help trafficked girls

Bollywood actress Richa Chadha is on cloud nine with her latest movie Love Sonia receiving appreciation and love from her fans and movie critics. 

Richa plays a  sex worker named Madhuri in the Tabrez Noorani directorial venture that delves into the heartbreaking life of the global flesh trade. 

One such message that caught Richa’s eye and captured her heart was from a friend, Priyanka Halli, who is the chief medical officer of an organisation, which helps children rescued from trafficking. They raise funds for the cause of rehabilitation of such children and help in rescue efforts. 

 

She also expressed her gratitude to Richa to help spread awareness through films like Love Sonia, because after watching the film, a firm in Mumbai made a generous donation of Rs 8 lakh to the organisation to help them in their efforts. 

Speaking about it, Richa said, "This is reason we do what we do as actors. A lot of press asked me why I agreed to do a supporting role in a film. But after what my friend, who helps raise funds for trafficked girls and women, told me, it made me realise that it's sometimes compassion that drives us as artists."

Priyanka Halli, the Chief Medical Officer of Emancipaction and friend of Richa's, said, "Noorani's Love Sonia is a painfully realistic portrayal of one girl's story. But there are more than a million stories of children trafficked into, out of and throughout our country for sexual exploitation. As an organization that seeks to protect and heal children who have faced such horrors, EmancipAction is unable to share the stories of the girls we work with - and thus, raising the support necessary to help them heal and transform their lives can be difficult. We are grateful to the team of Love Sonia for compelling others to join the fight against child sex trafficking." 
 

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