Take any Indian TV serial on satellite TV channels and you’d see either
the daughter in law being accused by her mother in law of something she didn’t
do or some conniving vamp busy planning and scheming her next revengeful move
to make others’ lives miserable. There are women dressed in their finest ethnic
outfits and bedecked with heavy jewellery lurking around the house either
cooking or weeping in a corner.
That’s so damn regressive and
epitome of stupidity to watch and immediately needs to stop. There is an
overdose of melodrama in every TV serial on satellite TV channels with plenty of shows featuring ghosts and
vampires. There seems to be no respite even if you choose to watch TV online. Here are some of the
Hindi TV serial stereotypes that need to go immediately:
Women are not career-oriented
Pick any TV serial on satellite TV channels and it’s
extremely hard to process that despite of being such ardent campaigns and
movements on women empowerment, there are hardly any working women with a
career outside. This certainly isn’t about degrading housewives but the
disparity needs to go.
Take, for instance, serials like Diya
Aur Baati Hum where the lead protagonist Sandhya the first few hundred episodes
with pallu on her head, trying to please her nagging mother in law. She had to
let go of her ambition and even when she became the IPS officer, her career was
more of a favour on her by her in laws. Such TV serials on satellite TV channels only end up giving the world a hard approach
on career-oriented women.
Limited to a particular religion/culture
If a TV serial on a satellite TV
channel is based about a Gujarati family, there would be only Gujaratis all
around be it the friends, relatives, or even the people at office. Why is it
necessary when we live in a country like India with people of multiple
cultures, ethnicities, and races around? India is a country with rich social
fabric and that should reflect in our TV serials on satellite TV channels.
Social issues are inappropriately misleading
Not just there is an influx of
some TV serials on socially-blazing subjects but these social issues are
crassly handled and end up exhibiting a wrong picture on audiences’ minds. Serials
like Balika Vadhu on satellite TV
channels were primarily based on child marriage but rather end up
glorifying the entire scenario with teen pregnancy and sometimes missing out on
school days.
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