The major onus of working on a marraige in Indian serials is always the heroine's burden .
See how it is shown.
Archu merely took lifts from Satish in his car and Manav watched . For that momentary suffering of Manav , the punishment meted out to Archu by BT is Archu watches Manav waiting hand and foot on a younger , pregnant woman in his house under her nose .
Archu was on point of getting engaged to another man . Manav the husband is straightaway marrying another woman .
Archu breaks the engagement as women r supposed to be shown as pativratas and satis who r revolted by the thought of another man . But Men can marry for 'responsibility ' . Their holiness remains intact due to the responsibility factor .
Archu left her house , came to live with Manav , and adjusted in an inferior standard of living by slogging like a slave . Why?It is her pati ka ghar . In those 15 days she was horrendously abused by her saas . Pati has the excuse of being blissfully 'UNAWARE' of this . Pati's life hasnt changed.........he still gets up , fills water , goes to garage , comes and has meals and to top it all , like cherry on icing he will have sex as a treat every night now .So in effect , Pati's adjustment is ZERO. He did this same routine as a bachelor , he is doing same routine Now too . Infact his day ends well........at night he has a lovely wife in his arms. Regarding his horrid mom's torture .......he can act blisfully UNAWARE and run away to work . Biwi ko bahar mila aur ek Pav Bhaji khilaya to Kaam hua . Sab bolenge Acha Pati , Sweetu Pati !
Women like Archana r expected to talk back to their moms who have raised them with love since childhood for defending Pati or to prove that Pati is now more important . But Patis like Manav the sweetu only do Bas AAi , BAs AAi . Nothing more . Coz if they answer back or give ultimatums to their mothers , they r called as joru ka gulaam . Show me one pati in serials who had the guts o stand up to his abusive mother and say YES I AM A JORU KA GULAM AND KNOW WHAT < I ENJOY IT . SO KEEP THAT IN MIND AND KNOW THAT THINGS HAVE CHANGED AROUND HERE FROM NOW ON .
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OH YOU MEAN JUST LIKE DADDY IS YOUR GULAAM ?
We never see a pati who tells his mother that one more time u harass my wifes family for dowry , I will personally report U to police . Manav himself bought a necklace and tried to solve the problem but did not attack the root of the problem....his mother's uncontrollable greed.
Agnipariksha of a woman and AGNIpariksha of a man r in no way equal . Infact for daring to walk away from a man , refusing to talk to him for some days , getting scared of the accusations that he is a predatory stalker a woman is NOT applauded for being normal like American serials would do . She is supposed to have no doubts , no fears inspite of it being an arranged marraige and only fall on her knees and implicitly TRUST her pati . Not just that , she shud LOUDLY and VOCIFEROUSLY defend him to the society . THe concept that it takes TIME TO BUILD TRUST simply doesnt exist .
The feet of the man's mom shud be touched by bending although she does dowry demands and character assasinates bahu in public . We never see a bahu who bluntly tells her saas From Today i wont touch ur feet as I have totally lost respect for u.........I will only touch my sasur's feet . Why ?Coz Pati will be SHOCKED.
Anything happens in that marraige.......any damned problem , who is supposed to work on it ? Bahu . The younger son Sachin has frolicked around and died and Shravani has been irresponsible but who shud pay by suffering for their mistake ? ........Archu ! Pati gets to be the hero who saves . Pati's mom gets to be the victim . And Archana shud BURN in the fire coz this it seems is the AGNIPARIKSHA.
We wont ever see Archana saying So fine , tumhare bhai ne shaadi ke pehle gul khilaye aur uske biwi ka maan sanman bachaya ja raha hai .............lekin jab mujhe charitraheen kehke zalil kiya gaya tha tab aap kaha the ? Maine to koi gul nahi khilaye the !
Torture of woman is the base of Hindi serials . It is believed that it is the way to relate to women viewers . And Unfortunately women viewers blast Archana more than MAnav .....thereby proving it to be true . Chawl people r shown turning faces away from Archu inspite of knowing Savita's nature for years . We do NOT see chawl people coming together and boycotting Savita by sympathising with Archu . And thats the way it goes .
Edited by koolsadhu1000 - 15 years ago