^ Exactly! I know of many middle-class young women in India who had 'love marriages' and thus, were married without the need of dowry. Even my friends who had 'arranged marriages' had them without dowry. Times are certainly changing and there's no way in heck this show is representative of any kind of majority.
And please, this show is no better than Ekta maiya's OTT crapfests....they fall in the same oppressive brand of TV with their cowering lead 'heriones' and excess of caricature-like villains. But at least Ekta hardly ever claimed to show 'reality' with her programs. It was always clear to her audience that her shows were so outrageously exaggerated and melodramatic that there's no way they can, or should be taken seriously. Her audience has always seen her brand of programming as escapist fantasy. However, when a show like 'Dor' claims realism, then that is exactly what viewers expect! Unfortunately, what has been depicted so far is so archaic and cartoonish in its development of characters, that it simply cannot be taken as realism. If this show was realistic at all, the supposedly independant and positive characters would not be depicted as being so idiotic, senseless and without foresight, and similarly, the 'bad' characters would be shown as more ambiguous in their morality.
There is no such thing as realism on desi TV.
Edited by chronic - 14 years ago