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There is too much of giving in happening in KB.
First Bua ordered the women to get back into the pallus. Instead of obeying, Daddu should have explained that being sanskari does not mean wearing pallus and how he had advised Anandi to get out of it, and how he had told her pallu was not necessary to prove she had good values and that she had proved by her deeds that she had good values.
Instead, all the bahus dutifully get into their pallus. Anandi who had begun to look so confident and glowing freed of the pallu, now looks dull and hampered.
Next pital plates. Daddu should have again said Bua was free to use pital but rest of family would eat the way they were used to. He should have reiterated that good values had nothing to do with eating out of pital plates, and there was nothing wrong in being open about and adopting different cultures. He should have talked about keeping the windows open to let a million thoughts and influences come in.
When Amol is discovered to have been emotionally tortured, the family should have ticked off bua and refused to yield to her tears. Instead they watch A apologise, and later it seems Amol too will apologise.
Child abuse is a serious issue and they show people apologising to the abuser!! Daddu is seriously wrong in not taking a firm position on this. He keeps talking of his army background.
The defining qualities of army life are accommodation of diversity and progressive outlook.
The monthly cycle. The family should have stood up and said it is a natural, biological event in a woman's life and it is illogical to link it to pollution of religion. Instead of this Anandi will apologise to bua.
What a fall for KB!!. When the family was introduced, they looked so modern. Ira in her stylish handloom sarees and open hair, Meenu so elegantly dressed, the men offering to cook in the kitchen which so impressed Anandi.
Where is that family? Instead we have the worst stereotypes being accepted without anybody questioning them: Women in pallu, family eating out of pital plates, child being allowed to be abused and myths about monthly cycles, are being propagated without being challenged.
If BV CVs think little messages after the episodes constitute protests against these horrid practices, they are wrong. The characters need to stand up and oppose them
And of course, the worst of all. Sanchi putting up with abuse by her rapist in the name of good values. BV has crossed all decent limits in glorifying tolerance of this kind.
I'm hugely disappointed that with time the show is becoming more regressive than progressive.
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