The show was advertised as the journey of empowerment of a woman trapped in an abusive family who fights her way successfully out of the societal cage imprisoning her. The claim was that the tale would be refreshingly progressive and feminist.
Everyone here was rooting for it at the beginning and wanted Anupamaa to succeed in this journey.
However what they actually showed was a woman who is extremely regressive in many ways who actively chooses to stay in the cage even when someone turns up to open its door. A woman who is offered a thousand opportunities to bring her projects to life but abandons every single one of them within a few days/weeks. A woman who is given second and third and fourth chances to step forward in life and build something strong and beautiful but chooses to take these chances for granted and let them slip away. A woman who forgets to care for her current family because she is still living in her past. A woman who despite all her privileges always sees herself as a victim. A woman who loves lecturing others about how an ideal person/husband/wife/child/etc should behave while she fails to hold herself to the same standards or listen to others' points of view. A woman who doesn't understand or respect boundaries.
None of this is feminist or progressive. Empty baashans cannot make up for a badly written character who is repeatedly the cause of her own misfortune and never seems to learn from her mistakes. Instead of character growth we only see the character declining and becoming worse with each episode.
The people who dislike the character now actually do so because they are disappointed at how the makers have spoilt such a good chance at portraying something constructive and revolutionary on screen. Now this serial is indistinguishable from any of the hundred other rubbish serials on TV.
This is why all the care has turned to ridicule. The audience does not appreciate false claims or being taken for granted for TRPs and money.
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