Dude shoots wife after seeing film on marriage

An Indian man who took his wife to a hit film about marital tensions hoping she would allow him to marry again shot her after she refused, police and a newspaper said.

The Mumbai Mirror daily said the wife had left his home with their two children after a marital spat. But on Saturday, they had made up and went to see "Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna" (Never Say Goodbye), a Hindi film about couples finding love outside marriage, which has been playing to packed houses in Indian cities.

The newspaper said the 32-year-old man's real intention in taking his wife to the movie was to persuade her to allow him to marry his girlfriend. When she refused, the husband attacked her with a "sharp weapon" and shot her in the stomach, leaving her for dead on the road, the Mumbai Mirror reported.

"The wife survived and she has given us a statement against her husband," a police officer said. The film's director Karan Johar expressed shock. "When I made the film, I never thought it would incite such strong emotions," Johar was quoted as saying in the newspaper. Article here.