Originally posted by: atominis
Deols are a strictly patriarchal family and very rigid and hypocrite, controlling when it comes to women.
They keep daughters and wives in control and on tight leash and usually away from media. While men do anything. Dharam once said aurat mein sharam, haya aur nazakat honi chahiye, aurat peete huye ya gaali dete huye ya aashiqui karte huye achi nahi lagti.
He also said girls should be married off at 18 and not study further or play sports or have a career.
He kept his daughters from Prakash so much away from media that many do not even know he has 4 kids from her and think he has only 2 sons. He was also against Esha playing football in school or learning classical dance or joining films. She rebelled and did a bit of what she did only due to Hema.
He did not let Ahana do anything either though she wanted to be a director at one point.
Hema keeps saying he never attends her stage shows and wanted her to quit work, dance and films after marriage but she did not relent. He does not come to watch her dances and Hema said he says 'tu meri nahi hai' when he sees her dance on stage.
Dharam and Hema live separately. One wonders why they married if they had such differences...
Dharam lives with Prakash.
I guess Puja had to learn to tolerate same as other Deol family women. She has no choice.
Sunny reportedly had affairs with Juhi and Raveena also in 90s but Puja remained silent and also married to him on paper.
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