An award-winning and striking documentary that questions how love has been turned into a crime in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state. The film investigates, through on-the-ground reporting and deeply personal stories, how the state government, led by Hindutva ideology, has used recently enacted anti-conversion laws to target interfaith relationships. These laws require state approval for religious conversion within interfaith marriages and criminalize alleged cases of “forced” or “deceptive” conversion, placing the tension between state power and individual freedom at the center of the narrative.

The documentary goes beyond treating the term “love jihad” as a media slogan or political rhetoric, instead revealing its real-life consequences on ordinary people. It shows that the enforcement of these laws is not merely about preventing crime, but about placing intimate relationships, religious identity, and women’s freedom of choice under state surveillance. Critics argue that the laws disproportionately target relationships between Muslim men and Hindu women, often leading to state and family intervention even when consent is clear. Human rights groups warn that such practices fundamentally violate basic rights and civil liberties.