One is a vamp, one a stupid old ignorant woman who is blind towards the good woman in her house and the good woman is a heap of tears ready to burst at the slightest bit of stimulation. The background music is dramatic and dragging; sometimes for days on the bounce.
Our daily soaps today are a tragedy of the women loved by the women themselves! It really seems that women love being miserable. Otherwise, why would such poorly tragic and drab reflections be taken to in such big ways?
I agree what they are showing might be relevant is some ways in our lives but you really don’t see your mothers and aunts with lines of water trickling down their cheeks all the time.
Our women are everyday, for days on the trot, being reflected as such tragic, sorrowful figures. That too at a time when women empowerment and equality has been at its peak!
Women are there everywhere in a big way. They are fighting out of the bracket of being just housewives. Mind you, there is a raging debate of a housewife’s services being included in the Gross National Product (GNP) of the country. GNP is the value of all final goods and services in a country. It basically is the basis of assessment for an economy.
So, even at a household level women are now able enough to contribute towards a nation. Gone are the days when women would be abused in the house and all that they would do is shed a few tears on their own.
But, what our daily soaps reflect is exactly that. They are regressive towards the progressive women of today. A tear is an omnipresent tool for the pathetic directors and script writers of our daily soaps. I sometimes feel their story idea is a tear and they then work on building a story around it!
Amongst all the humungous stupidity which literally is hilarious you hear comments from your engrossed mothers and aunts saying, “Bechari” or “Kitni buri hai!” I look at them in utter disbelief as these comments come from a generation who themselves are part of the progressive women brigade. They themselves are having jobs and contributing towards the betterment of their households. Such comments coming from a grandmother is still very well acceptable.
I am puzzled about the existence and success of such shows in a world or India like it is today. These shows do not reflect in any way the so called culture that we project. All of us have such conflicting thoughts on culture and are so lost. But, that is a totally different debate and can be taken up at a different time.
In all if you have a figure of why such soaps are running then please inform me as I am all ears! I really feel the women in our country have made enough name for themselves to deserve some better projections on national television.
I agree that our daily soaps are definitely not upto the mark. Women should be projected in a better manner so that it can be a source of inspiration for the women who still face discrimination.Having said that a lot of newer daily soaps project women trying to fight and oppose discrimination! its a different matter that story, direction, acting,etc is still pathetic...but that is the case with most of our serials even the ones which don't deal with women such as CID! But i don't agree with the fact that most women in India are not in a miserable state any more! The majority of women in our country still face all these problems especially in the lower sections of society and we have a long way to go as far as gender equality is concerned! Even as far as small day to day activities and responsibilities go which are not even noticed since we're so use to it. Its these struggling women who ones who relate to these serials and they are the masses on whom the TRP of such serials are based. U'll realise that very few women who have or are making it big professionally watch such serials! Serials are made according to the target audience just like our newspapers today. what is the use of Bombay times, midday etc? At the end of the day its all business!! I'm not saying its right but u can't blame them for wanting to make max profit. As far as exaggeration goes not only our serials and movies but even some of our news channels for that matter have always been like this. so more than this women oppression projection its the quality of our entertainment and media industry which needs to improve! It is happening slowly but we have a long way to go which is probably the reason why the change is not visible yet.
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