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Is there any honour in killing for 'honour'?
June 22nd, 2010 | Source By Times of India
The growing incidents of honour killing in different states, and now in the national capital, have proven that caste and its brutal ramifications are still prevalent in India. Many of us are plainly baffled by the incidents, often arguing that the phenomenon is at odds with the new and resurgent India that we hope and dream about. But is it actually for the sake of family honour? Who gets to decide what is honourable? What about our collective honour as a society? Will any law against honour killing be effective in the absence of a genuine will on the part of the people themselves? We cannot expect our political leaders to answer such questions in an honest manner. They have displayed their abhorrent dilly-dallying over it, preferring silence or collaboration for electoral gains. The onus now clearly lies on the responsible citizens of the country to raise their voices against a practice that defies the idea of an inclusive and tolerant India.
Now, a London based director Avtar Bhogal is coming with the film Honour Killing which is based on this global issue honour killings. Presently the film in post production.
Director Avtar Bhogal said, "There can never be honour in such killing".
Film Honour Killing (Rubbaa Maaf Karien in Punjabi) has international starcast such as Zara Sheikh, Sandeep Singh, Javed Sheikh, Tom Alter, Gulshan Grover, Prem Chopra,
Clowe Wicks, Alexander Hulme, Sandeep Garcha, Manjit Johal, Gurdial Sira, Cindy Sidhu, Karan Singh, Nad Nazir, Farzana Anwar, Wardah Khan, Ray Burnet, Steven Drew, Grant Huggair, James Helder, Pammi Dhillon, Altaf Ali, Zeeshan Ali, Jas Juttla, Jas Gahir etc.
The emotional tale will release in Punjabi and Hindi, as well as in 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).
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