Originally posted by: Poluk
Great post Neel.
Since childhood I was taught a few basic values:
1. to steal is wrong
2. to hurt anyone - physically or emotionally is wrong
3. eyeing anything which you don't have a legal or moral right on is wrong
4. always repay kindness with kindness
5. Be kind and considerate
Then when I became a teenager, I was taught:
1. never befriend gunda type characters
2. a decent girl never goes around changing boyfriends/men at her whim
3. deceit is wrong.
4. Be empathetic.
At the time of marriage I was taught:
1. respect the sanctity of marriage
2. don't give up on a relation too easily. marriage is a tree which needs to be nurtured lovingly slowly carefully.
3. In a relationship: learn to forget and forgive
Now while watching the show also these are the same sets of values I apply and then I am told that these make me uncultured and from a bad family.
I have never liked Bhai because all the aforesaid values were conspicuously absent from him from day one.
And one pertinent question: does appreciating the non-existence of these values make a person cultured?
and disliking a character who defies these values all the time makes one uncultured?