Jassi kaur biography of barack

On June 8, 2000, beautician Jaswinder ‘Jassi’ Kaur was murdered in the Punjab province of India. The 24-year-old Indo-Canadian was killed by hitmen hired by her mother and uncle who felt she had brought shame on their family for marrying a rickshaw driver she had fallen in love with while visiting relatives.

While the ‘honour killing’ made international news, it had deeper significance for India-born director Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, known to all and sundry as Tarsem.

Jassi kaur biography of barack

Not only had the horrific event taken place in his childhood village, but Kaur had also lived near him in Canada. The hitmen were caught swiftly, but it took until 2012 for Jassi’s mother and uncle to be arrested, and a further seven years before they were extradited to India.

At the time of the murder, Tarsem was two months from the release of his debut feature, serial killer thriller The Cell starring Jennifer Lopez, and prepping what he hoped would be his second, The Fall.

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