Runaway Grooms | Cricket and the Meaning of Life

Runaway Grooms
Through the stories of two women Namita Jain and Sonia Kaur, Ali Kazimi traces a distressing trend of emigrant South Asian men who use Western marriage laws to extort large dowries from families in India. While doing a fitting job in exposing the grooms and their families, Runaway Grooms, which won the 2006 Gemini Award for Best Social/Political Documentary, is equally incisive in exposing the underpinnings of gender and global inequality that make this alarming exploitation possible.

Cricket and the Meaning of Life
When Sanjay Talreja moved to Canada he expected to put away his youthful passion for the game of cricket. Far away from the troubled politics of his old hometown in Mumbai, he discovers a small and thriving Toronto community of South Asian and Caribbean cricket players…