Country, Running Time, Year: United Kingdom, 99 minutes, 2009.

Land Gold Women is an award 2009 winning film which deals with the issue of honor killings, first of its kind in UK. The film won India’s National Film Award for Best Film in English Language.

The film shot entirely in the UK that covers the issue of honour killings in a modern society, is set in Birmingham, a place which is home to a large ethnic Indian Muslim community.

Land Gold Women ?revolves aroudn a small British Asian family caught between their traditional past and the tumultuous, faction-driven present. Nazir Ali Khan, a soft-spoken, genteel 45-year old professor of History at a University in Birmingham, emigrated from India in the 1990’s. He made Birmingham his home with his conservative wife Rizwana and their two children, Saira,17 and Asif,14. He indulges their interests in all things English and Western but now finds himself increasingly nostalgic about his roots.

Saira, with a year to complete her graduation is excited at the prospect of going to the university to pursue her interest in Literature. She also hopes that this will give her more time to spend with David, her aspiring writer boyfriend. At this critical juncture in her life, Nazir finds himself?feeling?increasingly?conflicted?at the thought of hi daughter going out into the big bad world. His fears are further strengthened by the arrival of his older brother Riyaaz from India. A staunch traditional man, Riyaaz arrives with a proposal of marriage for Saira. A man of his word, who takes great pride in his roots, Riyaaz does not intend on taking a ‘no’ for an answer.

With the threat of an illicit relationship looming over his head and the prospect of getting cut off from the rest of his family, Nazir finds himself at the brink of a terrible decision to make: Should he save face? Or save his daughter ?