Runaway Grooms is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Ali Kazimi and released in 2005."Abandoned brides subject of TV show". New Glasgow Evening News, April 14, 2005. An examination of the dowry system in India, the film explores the phenomenon of Indo-Canadian men who fraudulently return to India ostensibly seeking women to marry, but then abandon the woman and return to Canada without her as soon as they have secured possession of her dowry."Nasty tales of arranged marriages gone bad; Passionate Eye's Runaway Grooms; Canadian men marry women in India, take the dowry, then divorce and ditch bride". Montreal Gazette, April 20, 2005.
The film premiered on April 20, 2005, as an episode of CBC Television's documentary series The Passionate Eye."Runaway husbands: Abandonment a disturbing trend". The Province, April 20, 2005.
It won the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social or Political Documentary Program at the 20th Gemini Awards."The Gemini winners". The Globe and Mail, November 20, 2005.
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