India's Honour Killings: When Love Becomes a Crime | Witness | Marriage Murder Violence Documentary
Every year in India, at least a thousand young people are murdered by their own families for falling in love with the wrong person. For these lovers, who shun arranged marriages for love matches, there is only one resource to which they can turn: the love commandos.
This volunteer organisation is run out of a small room in a congested inner-city Delhi neighbourhood. They have no budget or formal structure - just a stong desire to modernise their country and end the honour killings.
Sapna is 23 and in love with Mazhar, a Muslim student. When her father, a rich Hindu, found out, decided she needed to be punished. She has been beaten, kidnapped, forcibly married and set on fire. Dozens of times, she’s nearly died. She’s lived in the Love Commandos refuge in Delhi for the past four months. It’s too risky for her to leave the shelter but she says she feels happy for the first time and is waiting for her marriage to be dissolve so that she can marry Mazhar.
Bhaskar and Pooja and Kartik and Ashia are also on the run from their families. We follow these three couples over several months and tell their stories. A surprising look at modern India.
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There is no honor in murdering your own daughter only shame.😢
Coz they are stupid n brainwashed
You must be sick to do this to your own child
Sons get murdered too in these killings. Especially by their in law family.
Im a Mom and wish i could help all of u hug you and keep u away from harm your all so brave
The most of Indian believe that interracial marriage is sinful but no Killing a person is great sin
Not true. We do not believe interracial marriage is sinful. It have different reasons. But killing Person is great sin for us too. Marrying in a different race or religion is not always easy to adjust and sometimes even risky. Many families scared. Marrying someone from another race does not always make the marriage happy and successful.
Interracial? Prefer calling caste. It has comparatively soften up but yes things were horrendous in the past.
How can murdering a family member be an honour killing how can this be justified?
And now the Indian government had passed the law you can’t marry in court without your parents consent. 🤡
This happens in only certain parts of India,not all provinces,atleast not in the place where I live.Here at best,the girl will get disowned by the family
Possessive thinking.
No family who loves their son/daughter would kill them because they have made their own choice of marrying a person who is not of their liking .Its the loss of control and authority which turns into murder.
I am so thankful I live in a country where I have the same rights as a man and not subject to any religious oppression
Which country?
Which country is that. I know it can't be America.
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Same here and well said. 👌👍👏 Religion is for the indoctrinated,, ignorant, narrow minded, backward & superstitious lot this includes politics as well.
@@ocodeskamcdbsm oh please you seriously need to travel.
Hi I'm Canadian and don't really understand having to be matched up with whom your family wants. I am very proud of these couples for standing up for there rights to love who they want and things will get better for them xoxo Shawna from Canada ❤
I am from USA & from Bangladesh - Not sure how in India live together is accepted but not marriage within different casts / religions
@@Blessed-Beautifulwhy do hindu men comit so many sexual assaults, weather be in India or global, 8 out of 10 times, its always a hindu😢😢
How many white canadians themselves marry with persons of other race?
I'm so fortunate that I was born without having go through this. I am Catholic and was born and raised here in the Philippines. And I was raised by a loving and understanding parents who would support me in everything I do. Like they always tell me to do what makes me happy and they dont want to interfere my own decisions because they are not holding my life. and im always thankful for that. whatver happens, they will be there.
Excellent ! We need more of these types of documentaries ! Love truimphs everything ! Nice to see these young couples in Love ! Girls are more gutsy and tough inside ! Power to them !
Well, I agree. But they need to be financial independent first. Even through I feel for them. But love alone and can support oneself is not a good thing to rely on family. They asked to live with the family; therefore, they have to following the rule.
so sad thank you for sharing their stories
Thank you for this amazing work A lot of searching and engagement 🙏🏽
SHOCKING WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PARENTS
They are sick in head
Hmmmm u sound like a sweetener in a brown packet ...
superb documentary ,I pray all these young couples find peace and happiness and all these honour killings would end ,i do see sadness and hurt in most the love couples eyes and they living in fear ...wish this would all end and these arranged marriages would not be allowed
They are both gonna die if they try to go back. They need to just make their own lives forget their families and move on
it seems these parents like for their kids to suffer in loveless abusive marriages thats sad and crazy
Arranged marriage lasts long whereas love marriages failed
@@vinaykumar__21 lol u are delusional
@@Rinee_9556 Somehow people not living in India thinks they have better knowledge about India than Indians themselves.Love their confidence
@@Rinee_9556It's true, not every arranged marriage is abusive or bad, online the news only highlight the bad stories but in real life millions of people marry like that every year and in most of the cases everything turns out fine. Love is a construction, a process, it can happen between any 2 people, the idea that is necessary a deep passion or love at first sight to have a love relationship is an idealistic romantic western notion, but it doesn't work for many people as well. The notion that you need to in love to the person that you're marrying is a recent cultural phenomenon, most marriages in history were not basely solely on love, including in ancient Greece and Rome.
@@vinaykumar__21 we just wached a documentary where the girl was married to a man who tried to set her on fire and he was arranged by the parents, its not the way of marriage but the people involved that decide how long it lasts please do not mislead people.
It's so sad to see these youngsters going through such rough phrase.why parents are not allowing them freedom of love and life.for u own sake of pride and honour,u r killing your own child.shame on these parents
How can any parent just kill theor child and the person they love just because they fell in love and want to get married? For me, tjey never loved their kids in the first place and see them as a way to get money and nothing else. Can these young people, flee the country and look for asylum in another country? This documentary was obviously made a long time ago but things haven't changed enough for there to be any hope for the youth in India on the future.
It’s a stupid system that denies humanity. Why worry about what or who someone is. Regardless people that love each other will always find a way to be together unless they are dead. Secondly killing or taking a life that God himself has disapproved is wrong . We need to cherish our differences as it’s what makes our humanity complete.
Personally, I will never encourage anyone to leave their families for love. What would happen if that so called abandons you?
Is that enough reason to kill your own flesh and blood?
@@ritaokolie6687that’s not what they’re saying, they’re saying it’s dangerous to leave ur family for a man in the name of love because u dk what awaits u. he might become abusive too and u won’t have anywhere to go
Engagement Ring Wedding Ring Suffer Ring 😅😅😅😅
Exactly I was thinking about it too, in case you guys are not in love anymore.
A new one to me and truly LAUGH OUT LOUD FUNNY !!
People who fall in love should feel love and should be able to live who they want! Not force arrange marriage!
I think being independent would have addressed some of the problems this young people face .
Financially they are independent and working But in India it's a tradition to stay with your parents even after you have started working and got married
You can tell a good amount of parents would accept it just fine if it wasn’t for the society. What is one supposed to do if your entire community is against you and can kill you any time? No help from the police or anything. The government must enforce the laws. I thought they illegalized discrimination based on caste. I’m so happy for those who were able to find a way to stay with those they love❤ Thank you for the documentary 💐💐
I AM CRYING FOR THESE COUPLES... HOW CAN I HELP
The second guy family made Asia feel welcome, loved, understood even if their marriage affects them that is so wholesome, makes you see the heart his whole family has she's lucky they are all like that even in that situation My bf family seems not to like me and we are the same religion living in America😂 So happy for her❤❤❤
PLEASE GIVE US AN UPDATE ON THE COUPLES. CAN I HAVE THE ADDRESS OF THE HOUSE THAT HELPS THEM OR AN ADDRESS WHERE I CAN SEND THEM HELP FINANCIALLY. BLESSINGS FROM DALLAS TEXAS USA 🇺🇸
I do not judge, a society steeped in their believes, difficult to accept change. I am South African of Indian origin, my maternal grandma was born here, yet she has similar views of Bhaskar and Kartik families. Pray Kartik and Aisha, along with his family, find peace and the couple have a wonderful marital life🙏🏼❣️brave family, despite their fear. Their Dad's, Kartik and Bhaskar, seem to be more accepting 🙏🏼🙏🏼 good luck to all❤
Same here indian b/ground from gt Guyana sad 4 those ppl and their traditions
Bagwa love trap... Sponsored by hinduva goons...
Really wish the narrator didn’t sound excited and almost upbeat
Suggestion: Starting part of documentary needs to be more impactful !
sapna is already married. this muslim boy's parents will never accept her
No need to religion shame. It happens in all Religions in the East whether it’s Hindu sikh Muslim Buddhist even some Greeks too.
This is reflection of Indian democracy and BJP Hindu fanaticism.
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so heartbreaking for these poor couples they took every risk simply for love.Life is too short why put so much restrictions life is hard by itself.They all looked so genuinely in love with each other.Why religion caste status and so on when you die nothing of that matters.Just give your blessings to your children
It happens there but when they have done it here in The USA, they have been punished big time. And For Some that may misinterpret What I and saying: If You Physically Hurt Someone in a country Like India, You Won’t go to Prison. If You Do That here, in The USA, you best bet You will go to prison for a very long time.
It happens all over the world wherever the Indians go not just US
@@lolinsingh668 Maybe YOU Are NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT I MEANT. Okay, when those types of marriages happen in INDIA IT IS NEVER TOLERATED, and you Most Likely will be physically harmed, with Zero Consequences, BUT if they do That here, in USA, there ARE CONSEQUENCES. Am I clear?
@@lolinsingh668 Let Me Break this down again, Basically what I’m saying is: Try that Here In the America’s and You Will Absolutely Go to Prison for a very long time for physically hurting someone or You Murder them. Absolutely You Will Go to prison. In Places Like India, there Are No Consequences Unless You’re Extremely Important or Wealthy. Don’t say that’s not true!
@@Nefertiti0403 I was clear the first time. All I am saying is they should not bring that to the Western world period and should be punished
India is a HUGE country. What happens in one state may be unheard of in another, just like the US. Making sweeping generalizations about an entire country is insulting. People hurt others everyday in the US and get off like it's nothing, and it's vile to people living in other countries. I know some Americans like to deny that fact, but it doesn't make any less true. ALL countries in this world has its social problems. And no, there is no misinterpretation or misunderstanding going on over here, so don't waste your time with capital letters and exclamation marks.
May the most high protect us 🙏🏽
I feel happy for the first couple, it's obvious they love each other. I'm Christian, living in Canada, my fiance is Muslim. We are getting married this year.
IF you are really a Christian you'd respect God's Word ''Do not be unevenly yoked'' you cannot marry a non believer. Ask him to talk to a good pastor, a solid Christian, many muslims are turning to The Lord Jesus. God said ''the two become one'' you cannot be one with a man who is not saved. Jesus told Nicodemus ''You must be born again to enter heaven''. Jesus doesn't lie, you're marrying someone that you know is going to hell. If you doubt Jesus then you are not a Christian.
Like all India in canada
This is so sad when people bring ignorance of culture between a couple future and it’s they blood 🩸 if u really love them ❤u as parents will stand by them no matter what remember life is not perfect and our step in life is our greatest experience.
Not every indian have this culture
Hmmm which one is different....the all d same in baraaat
Engagement Ring Wedding Ring Suffer Ring 😅😅
Karthiks family seems So nice and very modern in there Thinking. All the love to this lovely family Hope karthik and Aysha have a wonderful life. Also i wish Sapna and mazer all the happiness in the world and hope Mazer does not leave Sapna after everything she has been through. Peace
We have this in the Middle East too and I has nothing to do with religion it’s part of the culture and people say it’s about religion to justify it when it’s the biggest sin to kill your own blood.
Yeah. I heard it happen in Middle east countries too.
That was sad.. Im happy that my mother was really support me who am i marry. She was just advice me that i must be choice a man who trully love me and not hurt me emotionally and physically.. love u mama..
This is shocking I had no idea they operate like this. I'm mostly impressed that they can be located in first place... then sell their daughter pretty much smh.
i just know one thing these couples kids are going to be the luckiest as they will have full support of their parents when they will fall in love
So da for the lost of innocent life. Looks like that country is so backward in time. That it is stuck in a hole. So so sad
Love IS a CRIME when it is FORBIDDEN.
These people in the documentary have committed no crimes. Love in this context is not a crime and a forced marriage is not a valid marriage
All I see in this boys and girls is beauty nothing else. Let them live their lives and stop bothering them
Dark realty of indian society
So sad, wish things changed
New sun new day,gods gift.😊
I am glad to be an American because We don't live their Way so wrong
I was raised as a Christian ( no longer practicing ) and admittedly don't know a whole lot about religions around the world BUT I'm pretty sure that whatever religion one is , they ALL start with the idea of LOVING YOUR FELLOW MAN . Somehow , this way of thinking has gotten pushed aside and instead replaced with hatred , intolerance and judgement . Where is the love people ?
Don't let extremists push you away from Islam, you have been blessed by the truth so only care about your relationship with Allah not what anyone does or say. Allah is the most merciful, Mercy and tolerance is soooo important in Islam but something that is overlooked now by a lot of muslim@@Blessed-Beautiful
It is hard being from an interfaith marriage where religion has been reinstated for greater freedom. The level of violence from one’s father towards you is terrible. Seeing these two abusive fathers of two of the girls makes me realise how wrong my father was to split me up from my boyfriend who comes from the same religion as my mother. Moreover, there is a caste difference between my Muslim mother’s and my Muslim boyfriend’s. It was very tough and the consequences have been long lasting.
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God bless yall
This is sad and cruel
Love marriages are quite common in India nowadays.All regions of India are not the same in terms of conservatism.Many of my uncles,aunts and cousins had love marriages,im from Goa ,India. In cities it is not a problem.In rural india yes it exists.
I am from Assam. Here many doing love marriage and almost my all cousin did love marriage with different caste. My family will support too
This is very old clip this must be in 2010 or something
16:00 That sign on the far left 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lesson: Be rich and stable first thank me later
one thing i have noticed are all these family are from lower middle class families who have a very backward mindset.
The only Honour parents should feel is that they received a child from God.
TEA IS FANTASTIC!
But now tea is costly to bhikaris can't feed people for one day without begging.
Tough life, avoid such love tangles.
POOR SAPNA..I FEAR THAT SHE DIDN'T MAKE A GOOD CHOICE WITH THAT GUY BESIDE HER. I DON'T THINK HE HAS THE GUTS TO STAND AGAINST HIS FAMILY.. HE LOOKS SCARED.. PERHAPS HE IS A MAMA'S BOY.
Sociaty shouldnt tell someone how to live.. Its no ones business ...
Love is beyond anything exist in this world
my father was like this! I fought bk!
Modi left his wife.
When a person is not capable of taking care of his wife how can he even think he will take good care of our nation he is just travelling the world & fulfilling his dream
How they can build their own Family ? They can't hide Forever
In India love is so struggle things you always have to choose a partner who have same caste same economic status and obviously same religion other wise 👄👁☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀💀☠️💀☠️💀f**ked up.
Omg I feel for these people why can't they just be left alone as !ing as they are happy the parents should be happy for them religion should not matter as there's only one God
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I would rather marry with a status and money then love. Couples who marry for love end up in divorce 100%.
Typical KaliYug Woman Mindset. No disrespect to you!
All religion predictslove when you find your true love fight for it die for it. Caste culture habbits and home religion always stay within your heart ❤but accept whom you love all you love that's most important...Indian society need acceptance for new generations to come for progress of our country. Hatered will only fill pockets who created drama of caste creed and culture but not religion because all religion talk about peace sahanbuddhi
I. This day i. Age and honour killing exist ,..this should stop
I wonder if they're okay now
How can you live happily by hurting your own parents Love is insist so selfish
46:00 wow!
Really????
So backward!.
For all these traditions, values and more abhorrent things, visit Canada.
Visa is hard 2 get
PURE EVIL
I❤ Indian girls I wish to marry with beautiful north Indian girls ❤
Luckily i live here in US
While bulweeed ppl flashing gold anx diamond saree on social media
May God grant them happiness n prosperity to enlighten their old fashioned custom... Nagas r blessed dis custom never prevails
This is so absurd! Every society has issues. You are exaggerating the situation. In some cases these conditions are seen true, but these are very few cases. I wonder why you did not mention or shown inter caste or inter religion couple even living in live-ins. I had a friend happily married against her parent's wishes into inter faith marriage.she is a muslim and guy was a sikh. The Sikh family accepted the girl with open arms. Even the girl's family accepted them later on and i am talking about a tier 2 city. I am lawyer and we see ample of couple like this given police protection even honourable high court judges sorting these things out for couples. Just for showing a poor picture of India and getting some name for yourself showing India in negative light. How cheap initiative you guys!!
I rather love marriage not arranged marriage
Don't they know in God's eyes he is being ungodly. God forgives and lives us all know matter what .. You need to pray to seek guidance to be a good holy person. Making her marry some wise isn't God's way
So sad.. Conservative society when will they learn
Get money and move to the western countries .
Jai Shri Ram. Welcome to Ram Rajya. 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Still living in a kaafir country 😂😂
Killing is disgusting yet why are you encouraging this decadent, stone-age and pseudo-westernized culture into India, We need to improve things but surely need only follow the good of the west and not the primitive dating, free-sex, gay culture, etc. into our sacred motherland. We need to follow our experienced parents and solid-traditions and not get greedy and go overboard and destroy our society. Nevertheless, the Indian culture in it pious and rich-form is bound to survive and not get adulterated.
I think this documentary video is old cause nowadays parents have became a little accepting and I have never heard about any honor killing case recently
What if I show you all these things in your so called great sanatan dhrama......in vedas in puranas and in smriti shastras......what will you do then......
This is an old download . Come on NEW CONTENT PLEASE this is really old 😂
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Love and Love jihad are two different things... Girls be aware who do you love... Most of the sex workers at brothel are girls who was once in love with wrong guy.. Don't fall in this fairytale of love
@vivekkumar1067 •You actually sound like the problem not the solution?So men are absolutely fine free the man in this film was not …If someone threatens to kill you or you fear them much ?Big Big problem Religion is supposed to not devise us in such ways it’s supposed to unite and make us care about each other to not accept means the past generation passing on there unhappiness and there personal cultural divides and hate that has no place in love of any sort ..All it make me have is a clearer picture of what my sons Father went through as a Buddhist the more I learn the more I am greatful to him ..The more understand I have and compassion but I would have done anything for him I would have taken a Granada Jumped in front of a train..Anything now I am doing that for my son …Alone .I don’t care our boy is a blessing he was planned long as he is happy ,his Father is happy I hope he is finally divorced not me he had an affair deeply unhappy in an arranged marriage..
@@EllaBella-76 what the hell are you talking about? How many brothels have you visited where men works as sex slaves? Have you ever came across any man who was sold at brothel by his girlfriend?
@@EllaBella-76I'm a girl . Don't mindlessly talk about the situation when you don't have an iota pf knowledge about the subject. When muslims marry a non- Muslim they have to convert to Islam. This not only happens with the women it happens with the male as well
@@EllaBella-76This is a tactic thats used to increase there population
well if you watched the documentary the muslim girl converted to hindu religion @@GayathriK-re7wt
You were talking of honour killing and abuse of lovers....now what I noticed in this video is abuse of an animal...a horse...tied to a short rope and it cannot relax or sit. It has to stand and remain in that position all day long and maybe for days. Isn't that animal abuse and cruelty? We just focus on cruelty to humans by humans but we should also see to it that cruelty and abuse is not shown on animals that help us like the horse tied to a short rope and suffering
Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi always tie their animal with a short rope. I have seen goats, cows, donkeys and horses tied with 15" - 18" long ropes. Cruelty is in their DNA.
Will a Billionaire in the West marry someone from middle class, Noo. Then why you are showing this.
well there are
Hinduphobia hai ye hindu ko neecha dekha rahe hinduo ek raho
It's not hindu phobia it's reality of india . What is even hindu phobia ?
A Muslim girl being converted to Hinduism for marriage, lindu fanatics - we are shown in negative light, now imagine if the tables were turned.
Hindu kabi 1 ni ho skte...wo sirf muslim k dar se 1 hone ka natak krte h........muje mat sikhana........m khud hindu pauranik parivaar se hu......yhi tum hinduon ki sachaai h.....sirf tumhari ni......lagbhag har dharm ki...kyunki har dharm jhut ki buniyaad pe kahada h......