Satyamev Jayate Episode 3 dealt with the most common curse of our society, the Dowry System. Most people dream of a lavish wedding but the reality in India is that expensive wedding celebrations and heavy dowry demands end up making brides’ lives miserable and ruining their families. Â The very concept of marriage has been turned into a transaction, with no value placed on the people or the relationship. But this can change, and it is up to girls and their families tosay NO to dowry, to insist on simple ceremonies and restore the sanctity of the wedding bond.
Hopes of a happy marriage are often betrayed when demands for money and goods from the groom’s family taint the alliance and turn it into a petty transaction. Watch the Part 1 of today’s  episode.
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Extortionate demands for dowry, which continue even well after the wedding is over, lead to the bride’s family becoming impoverished; and in many cases the groom does not even intend settling down with his wife. Here is present the part 2 of the show.
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In case you do not wish to watch the whole show, here are few interesting snippets from today’s show.
Former cabinet minister Balwant Singh Ramoowalia says that families treat domestic servants better than they treat their daughters-in-law. He explains that there is a fashion in Punjab for grooms to demand exorbitant amounts from brides’ families in order to go abroad. In Punjab, NRIs are known as non-reliable Indians for this reason. By his estimate, there are currently some 30,000 girls in Punjab who are going through this particular type of hell.
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Soon after Komal’s marriage was fixed, the boy’s parents began making demands. They wanted the wedding to be lavish, and said they did not want furniture but asked for the cash equivalent. And when the groom was about to arrive at the marriage venue, his family demanded that her parents give his father a gold chain, otherwise the wedding would not take place. Under such a threat, Komal’s parents somehow managed to fulfil even this demand.
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In the US, Komal’s husband’s demands grew. He had already been given Rs 7 lakh towards the cost of a car in India, but he demanded a car in the US as well, in addition to new furniture and electronic household goods. All this, although he was in a job that paid US$ 65,000 per year.
When he demanded that the flat in which Komal’s parents were living be made in his name, she refused. At this, he started physically abusing her, holding her by the throat and pulling her by the hair, asking her every day why she would not give him the flat. On one occasion he throttled her so hard that she thought she would die, and he only released her when it seemed that she would pass out
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Paramjeet was engaged and looking forward to a happy married life. But shortly after the alliance was sealed, the groom said he wanted to go to Australia to study, and wanted Paramjeet’s family to give him the money to finance this. Though the amount was wildly beyond their capacity, her family borrowed money and gave him Rs 5 lakh. He left for Australia just a week after getting married.
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“The one week between the wedding and his leaving for Australia was all that Paramjeet saw of her husband. He never returned. His uncle told Paramjeet to get divorced over the internet, as he wanted to marry a woman in Australia.”
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With punchy, powerful lyrics by Swanand Kirkire, composed by Ram Sampath and given voice by the mesmerizing Sona Mohapatra, Rupaiyya! is a poetic tribute to the true worth of women.
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Satyamev Jayate is a great show and Kudos to Amir Khan who has come forward to create awareness.On the one hand while Aamir has been showered with appreciation for his initiative, he has also been drawing criticism from many. .It does not matter if he has left his wife or he is cashing on his superstar status. There are many who have left their wives too but No one else does this.An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity….And Awareness brings CHANGE and HOPE 🙂
Do not hesitate to show the photos of the so called husbands also.why not ,they should be hanged by their b!ls.why ? Inlaws also should be shown.o
Aamir khan is doing good by bringing topic like dowry in public discussion but I am stongly against him for criticizing indirectly all the boys and NRIs in this show. It will change people’s opinion about boys especially NRIs.I am one of the student who came abroad at age of 18. I was one of the school toppers in India and than later on appeared for entrance exam for best engineering institutions. I had rank in top 200 out of whole India still I couldn’t get admission in my dream college. Some of my friends in India made fake SC caste, SC tribe or sports quota certificates to get into those colleges. I am not saying everyone is fake but our system is corrupt and bad. We went abroad to do something on basis of our hardwork and talent. Now after studying abroad a on our own (paying back loans) and finding good jobs as per our talent we can’t marry a good girl. I lost my dad in between while I was aboard. I know at time of recessions finding a job took me one year. So after all that now at time of marriage I am being questioned by good families that if I do good job or not. For how long I will have job. If I can guarantee I won’t leave the girl after marriage. I never asked for dowry and the girl’s family are like you gona hurt the girl after marriage abroad for money. Come on get some life people. I am a simple hard working boy who had dreams of having a good career for myself so that I can keep my family happy after marriage. Now I am being considred a part of stupid uneducated NRIs. That’s bullshit.My mom when she hear these things she cries. She goes like my talented son you wasted your life by taking birth in India. Society will never let you live this way or other.In India I was told that to marry a good girl you have to be well settled. Now I am well settled and now I am told I am stupid NRI. Is my fault was I was born in India. White girls won’t marry us coz we are brown. Brown won’t marry us if we are NRI or if we are not from rich family or well settled. What should I do or boys like me in India and abroad do?? If girl cann’t get a good career she is married to well settled boy. Can a unsettled boy marry a well settled girl in India? No, it never happens. Girl’s family always look for better, better…What should all of us boys do????? Aamir khan you should bring this upto.
Yes Indeed. I salute to Mr.Amir Khan who come forward and letting us know to real fact of our society, even we all are very well familier about all social problems but who dare to rise on front.
it is not just today that corruption prevails, it has been present in the society ever since time immemorial coz hardly few men and women are born who can resist the temptation of a profit. but off-late corruption has become a bit too serious an issue, it is present in every strata of the society, and there is no way to get rid of it as almost every person, in some or the other way is affected. we are living, growing up in a society like this where our natural growth is inhibited by the cruel fangs of corruption, we protest, but there comes a time when we too are lured. satyameva jayate in its part is doing a splendid job, but it is we who have to keep the spirit of this show alive , always .
and how long this ‘always’ gonna be is a question!!!