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Indian TV Serial Stereotypes That Need to Go Right Now


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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