For watchers of Desi serials, has there ever been a peaceful, non-hate Bara first Suhaag Raat?
How many TIMES have we seen the groom bristling with anger or hurt or jealousy or wounded pride or the all time favourite REVENGE ? What does he do?
Drags the girl like a cow around the Agni,furiously tie red or black thread or if you are super lucky, a Mangalsutra round her neck and again drag her to his bedroom?
I have seen that in 3 straight Desi serials and mind you,this is out of the four I watched!
Why is it that every Channel and Production House creative thinks that this THRILLS their audience?? Do they themselves get turned on, when they see the groom tear the flower bedecked bed on which the Suhaag Ki Raat should take place? Do they really think,every viewer will be whistling at this masochistic display????
Show after show after show, the first marriage is always a display of male anger,temper, supposed feeling of hurt & jealousy or revenge. Why???
Is it not possible, that a couple be married in peace & then together face the challenges of life? Are these lame Repititive tracks sanctioned by a masochistic channel or the signs of lack of fresh ideas in every single writer of shows? Some of these writers are women, yet they write daily degradation of their own kind??
I await the day when women stop being treated as animals heading for the slaughter house, on their "golden nite" - for ideas that don't degrade women all the time - for no more shredded jasmine flowers & rose petals to be strewn on the floor by a hot tempered groom.
Heck,the feminist in me would LOVE to see the bride do the dragging,insulting and throwing a fit for a change!!
How many TIMES have we seen the groom bristling with anger or hurt or jealousy or wounded pride or the all time favourite REVENGE ? What does he do?
Drags the girl like a cow around the Agni,furiously tie red or black thread or if you are super lucky, a Mangalsutra round her neck and again drag her to his bedroom?
I have seen that in 3 straight Desi serials and mind you,this is out of the four I watched!
Why is it that every Channel and Production House creative thinks that this THRILLS their audience?? Do they themselves get turned on, when they see the groom tear the flower bedecked bed on which the Suhaag Ki Raat should take place? Do they really think,every viewer will be whistling at this masochistic display????
Show after show after show, the first marriage is always a display of male anger,temper, supposed feeling of hurt & jealousy or revenge. Why???
Is it not possible, that a couple be married in peace & then together face the challenges of life? Are these lame Repititive tracks sanctioned by a masochistic channel or the signs of lack of fresh ideas in every single writer of shows? Some of these writers are women, yet they write daily degradation of their own kind??
I await the day when women stop being treated as animals heading for the slaughter house, on their "golden nite" - for ideas that don't degrade women all the time - for no more shredded jasmine flowers & rose petals to be strewn on the floor by a hot tempered groom.
Heck,the feminist in me would LOVE to see the bride do the dragging,insulting and throwing a fit for a change!!
tell me frankly, how many women do you think will watch a show where a normal regular male is dragged around by a tempermental female...... i'll bet nobody wants to see a headstrong female who shows bad behavior, but same attribute in males is accepted even to this day, double standards you say, of course it is. Have you ever seen a show where female's are shown to have affairs before marraige and husband accepting it? but don't we see this for male leads?? that should answer your question
ReplyDeleteif you ask the show makers they'll tell you they did it to sell their show or else no money and their show's out of the door, how many times have we not seen the storyline changing so suddenly just to accommodate TRPs? the moment a bhau cries, TRPs go up, LOL......... who's watching all these shows? it's none other than viewers like us, so unless we stop watching such shows, they'll continue with these concepts
Have you also noted that the women are the ones who actually pull the ladder away from the women in most cases. there will be sham first marriages, drunken mistaken identity sex, pregnancy and finally compromise love awakening. I was so looking forward to EMA for following that route but it seems to be running the same way. Pookie is suddenly this sari-clad pativrata nari. who wants her husband's love and MIL blessings at any cost. She understands Kamala's parvarish but can't help ignoring Kalpi's love. She is the same brat still who wants kalpi's pen, kalpi's doll and so on.....
ReplyDeletethe suhaag raat scenes are a nonsense hurdle that every serial now aspires for.....