Can you kill someone who is already dead?…
There’s this old movie called the Kohraa (fog)…..it was of course inspired by an English movie called Rebecca which was based on a novel called Rebecca! (Whew!!)…so the story is of a widower who remarries and gets his new wife to big mansion. There the new wife is often compared to the old perfect wife!!….the twist in the story is when the husband reveals that the first wife was actually adulterous and the whole perfect act was just a facade….. In fact at one point he lost it and killed her in an act of passion!… In the Hindi version though the ending is supposed to be the best!… Spoiler alert!!… In this the maid or governess who had taken care of the wife confesses that she was extremely dissatisfied with her behavior and actually poisoned her!…so the wife who was killed by the husband was already dead!!…no punishment for that then!!
There’s another old movie called Resham ki Dori which is considered an big ode to the brother sister relation!…(most famous though in that context is hare Krishna hare ram! But that discussion is for another day, maybe Raksha bandhan!!..)….. In this movie also Dharmendra is accused of killing a man who apparently was already dead!…. No punishment there too!….
In recent times (2003!! Calling it recent to make myself feel less old!!)….there was a movie called Teen Deewarein…… In that also in one single stroke Jackie was acquitted of his murder charge when Naseer confessed that the wife he killed was already dead!…. This particular scene was lifted from another classic (and my favorite!!) Shawshank redemption!…… Here also the husband kills and believes that he had killed his wife when in fact she was already dead!…..
Coming to the answer of the question….can we really kill someone who is already dead and get away with it??….. apparently you can but make sure that before you kill; he or she is already and finally dead!!
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