Talaq, meaning divorce, was performed three times in the Tamil language, each time to packed houses.

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Another is a form of divorce known as talaq in which a man simply renounces his wife.

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Elangovan, Thenmoli's husband, Talaq sums up the real lives of a dozen Indian Muslim women through one character.

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She saw Talaq in 1998, and recalls how it moved the audience of mainly Indian women to tears.

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It was a feeble denouement to Thenmoli's repeated attempts to stage Talaq, a play about an Indian Muslim woman caught in a miserable marriage.

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That has no standing in French or German law, but when both parties to a failed marriage freely testify that a talaq has taken place in some Islamic country, European courts have been forced to acknowledge the fact.

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