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HONOUR KILLING :: Justice horror in Haryana

It is a male dominated society in Haryana. No matter how developed is Haryana regarding its education, and fertile land in the world but it is a land of curse for the people who are in love with each other. Every year thousands of lives are sacrificed irrespective of caste, creed, religion, or the social status of the family. People kill their own clan or kin for their false pride and honour. It has become a grave yard due to all these killings. In all these the castes who consider themselves regional or very faithful are Jat, Tyagi, Rajput, and Gujjars. For the past one decade they are going through a phase of Cultural duality. There traditional value system is such that determine their eating habits, marriages etc. Same is the case with dalits and backward caste people.There whole social life is surrounded by and revolves around all these traditional beliefs and values. The source of all this is developed over a time and influenced slowly and slowly and socially these things were app...

Mewati Blockbusters –capturing local culture through cinema

In a world in which the ‘local’ is increasingly becoming linked to the’global’, there is a parallel effort to retain the uniqueness and flavour of the local, be it customs, traditions, innovations or experiments. This trend permeating the mass entertainment industry of films becomes a statement of local sensibilities and the pride in one’s own rather than in borrowed plumes. In the age of the glitz and glamour,of star casts and stupendous budgets of Bollywood, regional cinema is carving out a domain uniquely its own. Regional films produced in areas like Meerut and in Bihar in Maithili and Magahi language films are high on the popularity charts . Unlike Bhojpuri films, where commercial consideration is paramount, these efforts are of a more sublime nature. They represent local and regional aspirations, a tribute to the art and language and culture of the region in a cinematic format. The history of film making in Mewat is not very old. In 2000 with Usman a local youth of Tawaru block...