by Harpinder Kaur

According to the documentary by Dir. Al Jazeera, the viewer is exposed to an unusual reality; child marriages in Bangladesh.“In Bangladesh; a third world country many women are given no value and are known for getting married very early on. In the documentary we meet Beezly Roy, a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl determined to become a doctor. However, plans change when Beezly comes home from school and wedding preparations have started. Beezly was married at the age of thirteen to a twenty-five-year-old; her dreams of becoming a doctor, shattered.”( Dir. Al Jazeera).