FIRST DEAR JASSI IMAGES
FROM TARSEM SINGH'S NEW MOVIE
After winning an award at Toronto, moving new drama movie DEAR JASSI is moving over to London Film Festival in October. It took director Tarsem Singh almost twenty years to shoot the film and it is his first one after almost ten years. He is known as a director of exquisite visual splendour 
as seen in Mirror, Mirror, Immortals, The Fall and The Cell, but now he is dealing with a tragic love story and the tradition of honour killing in India. The real life story is set during the 1990s, when on a trip to visit her extended family in Jagraon, Jassi (Pavia Sidhu) meets Mithu (Yugam Sood), a 
rickshaw driver who lives down the street. She quickly falls for him, but their time is cut short as Jassi is expected to return with her mother to their home in Canada. The sweethearts begin exchanging love letters, and Mithu starts making travel plans. But when Jassi sees her family lash out at one of her 
cousin's suitors, she realizes there's no easy way to pursue their relationship and that terrifying consequences could await them. The film is based on the true story from June 8, 2000, when beautician Jassi Kaur was murdered in the Punjab province of India. The 24-year-old Indo-Canadian was killed by
hitmen hired by her mother and uncle who felt she had brought shame on their family for marrying a rickshaw driver she had fallen in love with while visiting relatives. It took more than 10 years for them to be arrested. Tarsem comes from the same village as Jassi and has also lived in Canada just like her.
as seen in Mirror, Mirror, Immortals, The Fall and The Cell, but now he is dealing with a tragic love story and the tradition of honour killing in India. The real life story is set during the 1990s, when on a trip to visit her extended family in Jagraon, Jassi (Pavia Sidhu) meets Mithu (Yugam Sood), a 
rickshaw driver who lives down the street. She quickly falls for him, but their time is cut short as Jassi is expected to return with her mother to their home in Canada. The sweethearts begin exchanging love letters, and Mithu starts making travel plans. But when Jassi sees her family lash out at one of her 
cousin's suitors, she realizes there's no easy way to pursue their relationship and that terrifying consequences could await them. The film is based on the true story from June 8, 2000, when beautician Jassi Kaur was murdered in the Punjab province of India. The 24-year-old Indo-Canadian was killed by
hitmen hired by her mother and uncle who felt she had brought shame on their family for marrying a rickshaw driver she had fallen in love with while visiting relatives. It took more than 10 years for them to be arrested. Tarsem comes from the same village as Jassi and has also lived in Canada just like her.
I have read and heard that things like that happen a lot in India and they get away with that. But it's usually from brothers and fathers.. I feel horrified that it's from her own mother.
ReplyDeleteIt is actually quite often from mothers as well, but we live in a misandrist world so we never talk about it. This one took ten years for them to be arrested and then another ten to be extradited to India, quite shocking.
DeleteHard story. In my mentality, it's hard to imagine a mother who would arrange the murder of a child.
ReplyDeleteIt is such an insane tradition.
DeleteI cannot imagine ever wanting to harm my child because they "brought shame upon the family." Shame from who? Idgaf about what anyone thinks about me or what my kids do. Some days I am so thankful that I don't follow any religion or belong to a family where we have to keep up appearances.
ReplyDeleteThe bitch probably wanted to marry her off to a rich guy and they enjoy the status herself, that is how it goes there, methinks. Otherwise you stay pariah forever.
DeleteI used to be friends with a blogger from India and she would message me constantly about the crap she had to deal with among her family and inlaws. It is not a culture I would like to have been born into.
DeleteI think we had the same friend, wasn't that the annoying one?
DeleteYes, I believe so! Had to stop following her when she suddenly had a daughter that was like 8 years old. I was like da heck? And she said she borrows her niece sometimes and claims her as her daughter to get more paid opps. I can’t stand a fake person so she had to go.
DeleteLOL I think I remember that woman. We also had India Nuriah from Indonesia but she suddenly stopped visiting for some reason.
DeleteOh, I love Indah. She still visits, maybe once or twice a year though. She's more active on Instagram. I think she's just busy working with the U.N. She moved from Indonesia to New York then back to Indonesia and is now living in New Zealand. She had a bout with breast cancer as well, so we forgive her for not visiting as much as she used to.
DeleteYes, I remember the cancer stuff, we were still friends while she was going through it.
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