Untouchable Love
In Nepal, where the caste system is deeply entrenched, the only way to marry for love is to elope. But when the partner is an untouchable, the high caste people resort to violence and murder to break up the couple.
These five love stories, of high-caste girls running away with untouchable boys, are a modern-day retelling of Romeo and Juliet. Manoj and ParbatiÂ’s affair causes ethnic cleansing in their village. Khadga and Jaisara live in the jungle to hold on to their love. The romance of Shyam and Saraswoti unleashes the wrath of the police on the untouchables. Kishor faces jail because he loves Ranjana. And the case of Rajib and Sabina, is it a double suicide, or murder?