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Director Avtar Bhogal’s next on controversial honour killings
November 21st, 2011 | By Honour Killings Team
Bollywood movies are famous for their romantic plots mixed with pulsating song and dance routines.
Rarely do they look into contentious issues.
Now, however, a London based director Avtar Bhogal is doing just that by tackling the practice of so-called honour killings in Britain.
Director brings together a multi-cultural cast and crew from India, Pakistan and Britain.
Such killings involve the victims - usually young women - being murdered by family who judge them to have brought dishonor on the family, often because of their social contact with men.
They have been carrying out for centuries in the Middle East and South Asia but, as communities have migrated, the practice has spread to Europe, including the UK.
The problem is particularly severe across Punjab state, on both sides of the border between India and Pakistan.
Police estimate up to 12 people are murdered each year in the name of honour in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with a further 500 forced into marriage or attacked. There is a lack of data as the police record killings as murder rather than having an unusual classification.
It is expected that over 200 girls are taken out of Britain each year to be forcibly married. There is no way of finding out if some of these girls are killed abroad for refusing to do what the family wants - or if the family finds out they have already found a partner.
On the shooting locale of Honour Killings, Indian director Avtar Bhogal tells that he has long wanted to make a movie on the subject and was compelled to do so after discovering the problem existed in Britain.
"There can never be honour in such killing," he told.
His movie covers three generations.
The emotional tale will release in Punjabi and Hindi, as well as English, and it is to be dubbed into several other languages for the global audience.
Its Punjabi version is to be called Rabba Maph Kare (God forgive us).
The movie will be released next spring and there are plans for premieres in Mumbai, Lahore and London.
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