SURREY – “During the days of the Rajputs, when a foreign invader threatened the palace, the ladies of the palace themselves told their next of kin to kill them, to protect their honour,” Khap film director Ajai Sinha told members of the local media at a press conference in Surrey Tuesday afternoon.
Sinha, who’s film on honour killing released in Canada on Friday, said for those times, that truly was an ‘honour killing’ but where’s the honour today in killing your own children.
Sinha embarked on a personal quest to research the topic in the Central Indian area, where Khap Panchayats perpetrate the practise even today, slaughtering their own children simply for falling in love or wanting to marry those in their village or even surrounding villages.\
It eventually led Sinha – known for his TV shows Hasratein, Astitva, Justujoo, etc – to even sell off his own property to make the film Khap… which, while having won awards abroad, in Germany and Norway, was screened in parts of India but not allowed to be screened in the areas where the practise still predominates.
