Love still fraught with dangers in India - Features - Al Jazeera English

Love still fraught with dangers in India - Features - Al Jazeera English:

Shabana and Manish had a Hindu, Muslim and Arya Samaj wedding and also a court marriage - hoping to get parental approval. Kavita tried to commit suicide twice when separated from Akhtar. Miftar has not been able to speak to his wife Lipika for the past six months.

Their travails make for a Bollywood movie plot: hysterial parents threatening suicide, religious hardliners raising opposition, and the couples often forced to go underground after receiving death threats.

Real life imitating reel life? Or is it the other way around?

 

 

Shabana and Manish married each other four times under various customs to gain social acceptance [Supplied/Al Jazeera]