Can Mani Ratnam make a movie like this?
Ilayaraja is 32 years old. His lover Kalaiselvi is 24 years old. They have been lovers for the past 10 years. Kalaiselvi’s parents were against this marriage. Therefore, they have threatened both the boy and the girl. The lovers did not listen.
Meantime, Kalaiselvi’s parents decided to fix a marriage for her daughter with some other guy. When the lovers heard this, they complained to the police. Police summoned parents of both parties and told them these two are majors (adults) and advised them for amicable settlement. Kalaiselvi’s parents did not agree.
Ilayaraja took the girl to his parents’ home. They were to be married in a few days in front of his relatives and friends.
On the early morning of the marriage, the bride’s (Kalaiselvi) relatives came with swords and other weapons and beat the heck out of Kalaiselvi and left. She lay in a pool of blood with multiple wounds.
She was admitted to a hospital in Tanjore. She is in the ICU with multiple wounds. Her life is in danger. The groom does not want to lose/separate from her. He tied the holy knot thali (mangal sutra) at the exact auspicious time, 10:30 am, in the ICU.
This is not a fiction Happened last week in Tanjore District in Tamilnadu.
Please see the picture below:
(Courtesy: Dinamalar)
Hope the girl recovers fully and live happily ever after. The parents should be punished for hurting the girl.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Sandhya. Agree with you 100%,
Deleteyes. This was in the English daily too. I hope and pray she gets out of danger and they lead a happy life.
ReplyDeleteEven if parents wish to marry her off to some other guy will she be happy? God only knows.
Thanks for your comments Chitra. Their daughter's happiness is not important to them. They give more value to what the society will think.
DeleteFact remains stranger than fiction.
ReplyDeleteThis misnomer 'honor killing' is getting chillingly commonplace and far too frequent.
I cannot understand parents who think the neighbour's response to their supposed loss of izzat is more important than their own child.
Thanks for your comments Sweety. As you correctly pointed out, in India, many parents are worried about what their neighbor will think rather than the happiness of their kids.
DeleteWhy some people get over-emotional with certain things is beyond my comprehension. Emotion drives violence in this world, which is in turn driven by ignorance.
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Thanks for your comments Rajesh. You are absolutely right.
DeleteI too read it in papers and felt outrage..such parents shame their parenthood.Samething was shown in NH 10.Parents can be so brutal is beyond my imagination.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Renu. Their perceived status in the society is more important than the happiness of their children.
DeleteWhat is wrong with these people I dont know. Generally, parents are co-operative and nice to children. But, when it comes to marriage, they act as devils. We say that we are progressed. However, most of parents are still against love marriages and have this notion that love marriage will fail and also that it is a shame to the family.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the movie NH10. Such things do happen. They still happen. All we can do is to pray.
I salute Ilayaraja though, he is a brave man and proved that he loves Kalaiselvi more than her own family!
Thanks for your comments Satya. The parents think their status will be damaged in the society. Yes, Ilayaraja is a hero.
DeleteUsually we come across such parents in small towns and villages all over India. They run lives with their myopic reasons like Jadi, kulam, gothram etc. and come with big knifes and iron rods to create havoc in the lives of young people. It happens regularly in the North too. When they make movies where they show such violence and atrocities committed on young modern thinking people, we know that they are only portraying what is reality.
ReplyDeleteMany movies have already been made on such topics. I have seen a Hindi movie where the hero's newly wed wife gets burned, and still he doesn't leave her, and looks after her. Sometimes we wonder whether in real life such a thing is possible, but then we come across a case as pointed by you and our faith in humanity and love is restored.
Ilayaraja is a good man.
Thanks for your comments Rama. As they say, truth is stranger than fiction.
DeleteI hope the girl recovers and they live happily. Its outrageous that for people pride is more important than a life or love. The honor killings always infuriate me. How can people be so brutal? Doesnt life mean a thing to them? Dont they flinch before inflicting such pain not just on the couple but people who love and care about them?
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Harini. And, welcome to my blog. You have raised many valid points. We cannot change them with laws. We have to educated them and that will take time Meantime, these young people suffer.
DeleteHarini, please visit here as often as possible. Thanks.
O! My God!When will humans become humane.What is there in parents'minds? Tears and prayers for the young couple.Some parents never stand for their own issues.I usually read 'Hindu'.But this escaped my notice.Thank you for posting it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Sarala. For these parents, their social status is more important. Just ignorant and idiotic people.
Deletemay God bless these two, such instances are indeed rare. and such devilish family must be punished.
ReplyDeleteAs they say, truth is stranger than fiction!
Thanks for your comments Ankita. As you said, may God bless these two.
DeleteThis is really sad.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Vineeta. And, welcome to my blog. Yes, very sad indeed.
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This is sad. Hope she is out of danger. She deserves to live happily.
ReplyDeleteLet there be hope and love.
Thanks for your comments Roh. I echo your thoughts. Let there be hope and love.
DeleteMay God bless these two..scary
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments The Enchantress. It is very scary indeed.
ReplyDeleteSG, I know i am going to talk like a spoil sport here, but MAYBE, just MAYBE, this could have been avoided. I know love sees no reasoning, love sees no boundary, but when you grow up in a setting where love is forbidden from an early stage...maybe falling in love is foolish.As much as i pray and know that what these two people went through is inhuman, if only they could have practiced some restrain while taking the relationship ahead.
ReplyDeleteIn the end what i see is two grieving mothers and their tormented children. As a mother, my heart goes out to the mothers of these. The women themselves live in a world of suppression maybe and hence are watching their children suffer helplessly.
Its a sad, extremely disturbing fact of our world, where honor killing keeps getting stronger inspite of the opposition against it.But like i said MAYBE they could have gauged or known that this is what the future will hold, and its braver and wiser to avoid it.There are millions and millions of us, who fell in love, but left it at that, cuz we are not brave like these two.
Welcome back Sulagna. I agree with you.
DeleteHeartwarming story... May God bless the couple...
ReplyDeleteI have not heard of such happenings in Dakshina Kannada, my district. But, we are reading similar stories regularly in the news papers here in India... We are talking about human rights and mean time such things are happening. It's really heartbreaking.
Thanks for your comments Sindhu. Very heartbreaking.
DeleteGod!! How can parents be so headstrong and commit such brutal crimes against their own kids! Hope the girl recovers soon and the couple lead a safe and a happy life together!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Shilpa. Difficult to believe there are such brutal parents in real life.
DeleteI hope the guilty are punished .. my best wishes to the lady , hope she gets well soooon ..
ReplyDeletegood luck to the couple
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It was indeed a scary story ,, but I wonder how difficult would that be for them to live together once shes all well! I hope all goes in their favor
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