I do not agree that people who are saying that this show is regressive are cowards.
Showing Urmi taking all the Bullcrap since she married the RAT and just crying and not making a stand for her equality in this marriage BUT makes a big show of women's rights in the Mall is ridiculous.
Yes, there are many marriages where women are treated like this and I too watched this show because I wanted the CV's to show that women can and should stand against such bullying.
But it seems the CV's want to keep stretching the abuse more than showing what a repressed woman who is educated can do to stand up to unjustified emotional abuse .
Many in India go through this and shows like this have a responsibility to educate women that there is a safe place to go and get help to come out of this kind of torture.
I have taken a hiatus from this show till they show Urmi has woken up from her fantasy of her husband being a nice man and making a stand to fight for her rights in her marriage or leave him and move on in life admitting that she made a mistake and some men just do not change.
Women should be respected and not be treated like some property or an object in a marriage. I know the original idea was to show that Urmi will stand up to this but it seems that she still has to endure more insults and abuse before a light bulb will go off over her head and maybe then she will stop being a coward and answer the RAT back.
Till then it is torture for the audience to watch Urmi just cowering and crying and not doing anything to make it better when she has shown she does know the difference and realizes that what SamRAT is doing is not right or fair.