The Immoral Daughters in the Land of Honour
Izzatnagari ki Asabhya Betiyan English and Hindi (with English subtitles), 93 min, 2011 The film traverses the violent landscape of ‘honour’ crimes, gender and caste discrimination in Haryana to tell the tale of a unique resistance. ‘Asabhaya Betiyaan’ (Immoral Daughters) from the Jat community are taking on the powerful, male and upper caste dominated community courts or the ‘Khap Panchayats’. The film follows few such women, urban and rural, who…