ON 19 MAY 2014, AS SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD RESHMA QURESHI LEFT HOME FOR THE EXAMINATION CENTRE, EVERYTHING HAPPENED IN A FLASH. THE MEN RUSHED TOWARDS HER. GRABBED HER. TUGGED AT HER HAIR. POURED ACID ON HER FACE. SOON SHE STARTED TO BURN LIKE A LIVING CORPSE. THE ACID ATE THROUGH HER SKIN AND AIMED FOR HER BONES, BUT IT COULD NOT QUELL THE FIRE IN HER HEART.
RISING FROM FROM TRAGEDY AND SUFFERING, RESHMA SOON MADE GLOBAL HEADLINES BY BECOMING THE FIRST ACID-ATTACK SURVIVOR TO WALK THE RUNWAY AT THE NEW YORK FASHION WEEK. NOW AN INTERNATIONAL ANTI-ACID-SALE ACTIVIST, VLOGGER, MODEL, AND THE FACE OF MAKE LOVE NOT SCARS, RESHMA WORKS TIRELESSLY TOWARDS EMPOWERING OTHER ACID-ATTACK SURVIVORS LIKE HERSELF AND HAS BECOME A BEACON OF HOPE FOR MILLIONS.
INSPIRING AND LIFE-AFFIRMING, BEING RESHMA IS THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THIS YOUNG GIRL FROM THE SLUMS OF MUMBAI, WHO OVERCAME INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS IN AN UNJUST WORLD AND DARED TO CHANGE IT.
सतरा वर्षांच्या नाजूक देखण्या रेश्मा कुरेशीला तिच्या एका नातलगानं भर रस्त्यात पकडून जमिनीवर पाडून तिच्या चेहऱ्यावर अ‍ॅसिड ओतलं. जिवंत प्रेताप्रमाणे काही क्षणांतच तिचं शरीर जळू लागलं. पण ते अ‍ॅसिड तिच्या हृदयातील जगण्याची ठिणगी मात्र विझवू शकलं नाही. दुर्दैवाच्या गर्तेतून रेश्माने झेप घेतली ते थेट जागतिक सन्मानाच्या पातळीवर. न्यू यॉर्क फॅशन वीकमध्ये रॅम्पवॉक करणारी, अ‍ॅसिड हल्ल्यातून वाचलेली पहिली मुलगी म्हणून तिचं नाव जगभरात गाजलं. रेश्माच्या जिद्दीची प्रेरणादायी आणि सकारात्मक जीवनसंदेश देणारी ही कहाणी.