Runaway Grooms (2005)

Directed by

Ali Kazimi

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at how some Indo-Canadian men travel to India to find a wife, collect a dowry, and then abandon the woman. It explains the dowry system and the impact of these fraudulent marriages.

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What happens

Runaway Grooms is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Ali Kazimi and released in 2005. An examination of the dowry system in India, the film explores the phenomenon of Indo-Canadian men who fraudulently return to India ostensibly seeking women to marry, but then abandon the woman and return to Canada without her as soon as they have secured possession of her dowry. The film premiered on April 20, 2005, as an episode of CBC Television's documentary series The Passionate Eye. It won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary Program at the 20th Gemini Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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