Suppose weddings, and also you consider glad {couples} embarking on a brand new chapter of their lives. However with Marriage ceremony.con, director Tanuja Chandra sheds mild on an unseen facet—on-line matrimonial fraud. The documentary collection delves into the harrowing experiences of 5 girls who, of their pursuit of perfect life companions, turned to on-line matrimonial websites and had been deceived. Chandra begins by saying that when BBC Studios approached her to helm the docu-series, the topic was an eye-opener for her. “The studio researched for years. The very first thing we observed was that those defrauded felt immense disgrace and guilt. The widespread factor about them was that they had been all achieved girls. Marriage is so vital, and [given] the stress of marriage, it’s simple to see how one can fall prey,” she tells us.
With the upcoming Amazon Prime Video providing, Chandra of Dushman (1998) fame needs to place the phrase out. On the identical time, she additionally needs the cops and matrimonial websites to take discover of such crimes, the place males pose as suitors, earn the ladies’s belief and swindle them of their cash. “The perpetrators go after wealthy, progressive girls who’ve nice existence and are in search of love. They pose as forward-thinking males and don’t ask for dowry. The authorities and policing system must step up.”
It’s heartbreaking to see that regardless of their sincere intentions, the ladies are left grappling with disgrace. What makes it worse is the apathy meted out by the cops. The director says, “The ladies suppose, ‘Oh, how may this occur to us? How silly are we?’ The police normally begin by asking, ‘How may you consider this man?’ There are some caring cops, however largely the policing system lacks the infrastructure, the flexibility to trace criminals and empathy to deal with these circumstances. The authorities must work on how they’ll go after these criminals. Matrimonial web sites and on-line courting websites are current, so the understanding of [such crimes] is minimal.”
As Chandra zeroed in on the 5 girls for the docu-series, she was sure that the undertaking wanted a feminine crew and an empathetic gaze. “We had 35 per cent girls crew. Amazon has a 30 per cent coverage, and we stepped it up by 5 per cent. It was a set the place we wished to inform these tales.”