Really good, made for TV movie. This is a modern day Romeo and Juliet that started out kinda weak but then fully sucked me in especially since the investigation is still in the news here in Vancouver. It's the story behind the murder of Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu, a young (Canadian) girl who fell in love with an (auto) rickshaw driver while in India for her cousins wedding and then married him against her family's wishes. As she had already been promised into a higher caste with an arranged marriage. Her father then hires assassins to kill the groom.
This has a definite Lifetime movie feel to it but I believe its a CBC production, you know what I mean though. Good performances here (despite some questionable fake beards) and just a heartbreaking story as we watch Jaswinder struggle with her strict Sikh upbringing, try to escape her family and arranged marriage and ultimately not get enough time with Davinder.
The father is traditional to a fault and you really hate him, the romance is sweet, (young obsessive love). There is also some time spent with the Indian police investigation that followed. 6.13 Filmed in Canada and the Punjab region of India.
This has a definite Lifetime movie feel to it but I believe its a CBC production, you know what I mean though. Good performances here (despite some questionable fake beards) and just a heartbreaking story as we watch Jaswinder struggle with her strict Sikh upbringing, try to escape her family and arranged marriage and ultimately not get enough time with Davinder.
The father is traditional to a fault and you really hate him, the romance is sweet, (young obsessive love). There is also some time spent with the Indian police investigation that followed. 6.13 Filmed in Canada and the Punjab region of India.