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Article: Next time you hear 'arranged marriage', don't cringe
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- September 29, 2007
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Sydney, Sept. 29 -- In the western world people often choose their partner, but they assume that their Indian friends and colleagues will inevitably be forced into an arranged marriage. Dispelling this myth is Indian-origin Australian filmmaker Sheila Jayadev's documentary, "Arranging Love".
The film has been accepted for Seattle's fourth Independent South Asian Film Festival beginning Oct 3.
"At university, I was always told that you will have an arranged marriage and I would say, 'No, that is not necessarily true. My parents don't impose their cultural values on me'," says Sheila.
Sheila's parents - father a doctor and mother a dietician - migrated to Australia from Bangalore. She says, ...