Hasmita is 29 and visits two Hindu matchmakers to ask them to help her find a husband.
She wants to marry a man from her mother's home village in India - which limits her choice.
25-year-old student Jalpa has asked her parents to help her find a match, but there is no spark with the first young man she meets.
Hasmita talks to a man her family recommend online - and makes a bold decision to visit him in Dubai. He is from her mother's village, and within a few days they get engaged.
Jalpa has met a man without a family recommendation, and is enjoying dating him. Hasmita has a spectacular wedding four months after meeting her husband.
Teacher Notes
You could ask your students to respond to the following:
a) How do they think many young British Hindus understand the idea of an arranged marriage?
b) The similarities and differences between their initial ideas abut arranged marriages and what the young people in the short film said. What reasons can they offer for these similarities and differences?
Curriculum Notes
This short film will be relevant for teaching religious studies or modern studies at GCSE/KS4 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and National 4/5 in Scotland.
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