Runaway Grooms is a documentary that was aired ealrier tonight on CBC. Although I didn’t get to watch all of it, but whatever I watched was extremely sad.
It showed how grooms go back home, get married, and runaway (to Canada in this case) with the wealth (jewelry, cash, etc.) or find an excuse to leave their brides by demanding their families to pay huge sums of money in order for the groom to stay with the wife.
The documentary mainly showed how miserable and horrible the lives have become for the brides who were abandoned. How hard it is to survive back home when the label of being a divorcee or where the husband has left the bride.
I’m sure the same goes on in Pakistan, however, in this case the focus was on India.
To an extent, this should teach the brides’ parents a lesson to not to marry off their daughters to the people they do not know about, especially if it happens to be someone who is living abroad.
I feel the victims should stop worrying about their relatives, neighbours, etc. and do what they have to do enable themselves to stand up on their own feet and face the world.
May Allah (SWT) protect us, our families, and everyone else from such incidents, ameen.
Although I do not know of a link for the documentary, however, the synopsis could read at the following website:
the documentary sounds interesting. it's too bad i missed it.
To an extent, this should teach the brides' parents a lesson to not to marry off their daughters to the people they do not know about, especially if it happens to be someone who is living abroad.
agree. it's so sad that some parents blindly trust certain individuals when warning bells should be going off especially if the guy starts demanding things or if his family isn't involved.
I feel the victims should stop worrying about their relatives, neighbours, etc. and do what they have to do enable themselves to stand up on their own feet and face the world.
agree but depression makes a person really weak. their families should support them and encourage them to stand up on their own feet.
May Allah (SWT) protect us, our families, and everyone else from such incidents, ameen.
yup I watched it too in Passionate eye. It was very sad indeed. These poeple live in such poor condition and spent their whole lives collecting money and jewellry for their daughter. And these assholes from Canada robbed them front of whole world. AT the end of the documentary i remember they said....there are such 10,000 women waiting for their husbands just in Punjab only.
Larki this documentary was made in Punjab Amritsar and most of them were sikhs…Jahez system is much more prominent in Punjab. But i am sure there are lot of cases of Pakistanis as well.
oh i thought it was about pakistanis. well either way, i can't stand people who take advantage of others.
the jahez bit is so sad. so many people have told me they learned Islam properly when they came here and i guess that's why these things (guy's side demanding a dowry) continue to persist there.