GURGAON: His father, a village priest, was an ambassador for spreading awareness against female foeticide.
Carrying that legacy forward, Ram Niwas Sharma, a realtor, has now embarked on a mission to reach out to the rural folk and discourage them from killing the unborn girl child.
Sharma, a resident of South City-I, has produced a Haryanvi movie titled Aathwan Vachan (Eighth Pledge), which will be made tax free in the state.
The state revenue minister, Satpal Sangwan, who watched the movie at a multiplex in Gurgaon on Wednesday evening, made this announcement to ensure that the movie is watched by a majority of people in Haryana. He said the government would also make efforts to screen this movie in villages through the information, public relations and cultural affairs department.
"My father used to take an eighth pledge from newly weds during their marriage ceremony that they would not go for pre-natal sex detection and would never commit foeticide. After he passed away, I thought of producing this movie to spread his message," 50-year-old Sharma said. The lyrics in this movie have been penned by his late father.
Sharma said most of the 140-minute movie was shot in a farmhouse in Farrukhnagar and parts of it were shot in Aklimpur village near the main city. "Most of the actors in this movie are from Delhi and Haryana. It is a low-budget film made only to promote awareness against female foeticide," Sharma said.
The director of the movie, Krishan Naharia, said the film is aimed not at earning money but to educate the masses.
The Haryanvi language movie shows how a wicked mother-in-law and her son compel a pregnant woman to get her child aborted after ultrasonography tests reveal that she is carrying a baby girl. The film depicts the ordeal of the woman, who is forced to kill her first child, but manages to escape when she is asked to terminate her pregnancy for the second time. She gives birth to a baby girl, who grows up to become a police inspector and arrests the doctor, who used to carry out abortions in exchange for money.
Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/Man-on-a-mission-to-curb-female-foeticide/articleshow/7782924.cms
Carrying that legacy forward, Ram Niwas Sharma, a realtor, has now embarked on a mission to reach out to the rural folk and discourage them from killing the unborn girl child.
Sharma, a resident of South City-I, has produced a Haryanvi movie titled Aathwan Vachan (Eighth Pledge), which will be made tax free in the state.
The state revenue minister, Satpal Sangwan, who watched the movie at a multiplex in Gurgaon on Wednesday evening, made this announcement to ensure that the movie is watched by a majority of people in Haryana. He said the government would also make efforts to screen this movie in villages through the information, public relations and cultural affairs department.
"My father used to take an eighth pledge from newly weds during their marriage ceremony that they would not go for pre-natal sex detection and would never commit foeticide. After he passed away, I thought of producing this movie to spread his message," 50-year-old Sharma said. The lyrics in this movie have been penned by his late father.
Sharma said most of the 140-minute movie was shot in a farmhouse in Farrukhnagar and parts of it were shot in Aklimpur village near the main city. "Most of the actors in this movie are from Delhi and Haryana. It is a low-budget film made only to promote awareness against female foeticide," Sharma said.
The director of the movie, Krishan Naharia, said the film is aimed not at earning money but to educate the masses.
The Haryanvi language movie shows how a wicked mother-in-law and her son compel a pregnant woman to get her child aborted after ultrasonography tests reveal that she is carrying a baby girl. The film depicts the ordeal of the woman, who is forced to kill her first child, but manages to escape when she is asked to terminate her pregnancy for the second time. She gives birth to a baby girl, who grows up to become a police inspector and arrests the doctor, who used to carry out abortions in exchange for money.
Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/Man-on-a-mission-to-curb-female-foeticide/articleshow/7782924.cms
I wish If I can join him!
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