movie about in laws trying to kill bride

#MOVIE ABOUT IN LAWS TRYING TO KILL BRIDE SKIN#

Actual numbers are not known, but anecdotally about half of the weddings in my family and friend's circles involve dowry.

#MOVIE ABOUT IN LAWS TRYING TO KILL BRIDE SKIN#

The amount depends on a large number of factors, including region, religion, caste and subcaste, groom’s education, bride’s skin tone, and the negotiation skills of both the families involved.Įven though dowry has been illegal in India since 1961, it is still prevalent. But I am also not a fan of ruining anyone’s life.ĭowry is payment made in cash or kind to a bride’s in-laws at the time of her marriage. But those five years would be punctuated with pangs of guilt for having “ruined Priya’s life,” my mother-in-law warned us. We had to pick between Srini’s dream of us retiring in our 40s and paying my sister-in-law Priya’s dowry.Īccording to his elaborate calculation, that extra $500,000 in our retirement savings would allow us to retire 12 years from now - five years sooner than otherwise. We were asking ourselves what would we do with half a million dollars. This time the stakes were higher, the money was not imaginary, and the choices were less glitzy. Until a few months ago, when I found myself playing it with my husband, Srini, in our house in Seattle. That sucked all the joy out of the game, and we never played it again.

She suggested that we ought to save the money for our dowries instead of wasting it on “useless things.” One day, an aunt overheard us playing this game. Our answers were always variations of buying a beach bungalow somewhere exotic where there are no power outages or buying a really fast car. The game kept our imaginations active during long car rides and power outages. One lakh rupees - about $1,500 - to our young minds was an unfathomably large amount that could buy you the entire universe. Growing up in India, my sister and I used to play a game of, “What would you do if you had 1 lakh rupees?”

Movie about in laws trying to kill bride