Forget Pehredaar Piya Ki, where was all the CRITICISM when these shows were launched and successful!

If I could give this article a lower rating, I would. Such tone-deafness and a complete lack of knowledge... did the writer even see these tv shows or is just reading off synopsis and making assumptions???

BV NEVER glorified these ills - it always spoke out against societal ills... furthermore, NEVER was an ADULT married to a CHILD in the show.

DSDSSB was about DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - an important and necessary concept to educate the public about...

The other shows were based on novels/are pure fiction... are we really comparing a comedy (of consenting adults) and a mythological fantasy show to one about an adult getting married to a child???

6 years ago

Difference is here one is minor and other a major.
In balikavadu given situation lady was adult.
In anandi marriage it was not glorified but shown as bad thing unlike pehridar. Natin is mythical if your argument is taken then no fantasy genre will work. I don't find bhabiji as funny at all but who knows what. Saubhagyavathi even i hoped either she fight or he reform but ...

6 years ago

what a stupid article India-Forums
i wish there was a way i could report this article somewhere
what type of a journalist and reporters are you people employing under you?
SHAME.

6 years ago

Honestly, IF's quality or lack thereof has gone down the drain long time ago. Now they mostly write incoherent articles littered with grammatical or spelling errors. There is little to no research done and most articles are only written to earn page views. The writers should return to school in order to learn what good journalism is. Hell, the writers here should not even be called "journalists" such terrible quality and no attention to detail. Only reason IF is still surviving is due to the forums, and even the development team knows this hence no attention is given to the journalism part of it. simply lazy writing to earn a quick buck.

6 years ago

IF, I don't think you know what the hell you're talking about. Bandini received a lot of flack, there was even a case filed against Balaji, for the mistreatment of the character Santu
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IF, why Aasiya Kazi isn't tagged in this article

6 years ago

Correction : Gehna in Balika Vadhu was never an underage girl when married to Basant She was 18 Legally an adult when married to Basant so it was adult marriage not a a child marriage The way Gehna was married to Basant against her wishes was wrong and it was shown as wrong not right Both Dadisaa and Basant realized their misdeeds and repented for them and corrected Gehna's life which they messed and later Dadisaa who bought her for Basant returned her everything she snatched from her even married her off to her first love Niranjan with whom she would have married if not to Basant but Gehna was not a Balika vadhu She was not a kid so correct your facts and stop misleading people to defend this Pathetic show Pehre Daar Piya ki The problem with show is not the age gap but the fact a child married to an adult and showing the crime child marriage as right The leads of Balika Vadhu were married as kids but show was against child marriage It showed us plight of children who are forced into child marriages and go through different types of sufferings because of this ill practice but pehre daar piya ki is promoting this crime and ill practice as something right by the showing their mahaan female lead marrying a kid whom she could protect much better as a guardian than performing this criminal act The show was regressive and shit Good it is banned Dont compare it with cult show Balika Vadhu which spoke against child marriages not in favor of it

6 years ago

Theres a difference between showing obvoously fictional shows like naagin, and a show about a little boy being married off to an adult girl because of so called "circumstances" balika vadhu i never saw but it was of two children bring married not a grow. Woman and a child. Where the hell ks the indian audiences brain that advocated for this show? Im sure its not intended to set any exanple or to be taken literally but to know writers are actually writing scenes about and adult women and a child have moments is sickeing to me. And to all the gk haters with the manhandling comments, i completely agree thats also sick, but its so.ewhat digestable compared to a program if shown anywhere else in the world would immediately taken off air.

6 years ago

I was a big fan of Bandini. I wasn't sure at what age Santu married DM, but I think she was 18. They had zero romance between them until her 19th birthday(the very day). Although my eye brows raised about the age, exposure and experience differences between them and the fact that Santo didn't chose him...he was forced on her, Her maturity in actions and words made them perfect for each other. It wan't child marriage too
Coming to PPK, I used to watch it and the fact is that it was not glorifying child married, but my fear is that the way things are going, it would not condemn it either.
I don't care that Balika Vadhu leads were both kids while PPK is between an adult and a kid. Both show's situations victimizes kids period.
The difference is that while children in BV acted as kids and didn't even know what they are doing, The child in PPK is shown as accidentally a better "husband" than most grown men...Which seem to justify that the two are made for each other regardless of the age. This ticks people off.
Yes, Basanth married an underage girl, but they didn't show it as a good thing. In fact, he was shown as an evil man, and a wife rapist. Hence, it as a clear message that the marriage was wrong. It was after years when he changed his life, decided to divorce her to gave her her freedom, offered to report himself to the police, and she willingly falls in love with him as an adult before people stopped bashing the jodi.

6 years ago

Love u ronit roy missing u on TV come back soon
Arjun bijlani good for ur new show

6 years ago

Bv show was so brilliant piece of work dealing with child marriage still such thing happen it was to done as progressive thing
Naagin is fiction few idiots liked the show
Beyhadh was fictional too
Saubhagya was also social many things happened in real still going.
Bandhini was novel based and bhabhiji ghar never looked vulgar
All these shows were bit fictional but never went over board like pp .IF writers sucks pls use ur brain before writing nonsense

6 years ago