Survey on Indian Television Industry-NYU Poly

Hi Folks,

I am a graduate student at NYU-Poly, doing research on the representation of women in Indian television, and am currently looking at the occupation of the female characters shown in the Hindi serials.

I would really appreciate it if people on this list could send me a few brief responses with the names of some of the key characters in this show and the occupation they hold (there can be more than one female character fro a single serial) ' the kinds of details I am looking for are as follows:

Name of the serial:

Name of the director:

Name of the female character:

Actress playing the role:

Her occupation:

Any interesting details about her work

(such as is she good at her job, is she ambitious, is her work environment good)

Thanks,

Tammy

Originally posted by: Tammy1

Hi Folks,

I am a graduate student at NYU-Poly, doing research on the representation of women in Indian television, and am currently looking at the occupation of the female characters shown in the Hindi serials.

I would really appreciate it if people on this list could send me a few brief responses with the names of some of the key characters in this show and the occupation they hold (there can be more than one female character fro a single serial) ' the kinds of details I am looking for are as follows:

Name of the serial: Behenein

Name of the director: No idea

Name of the female character: Purva, Smriti, Akashi, Anokhi

Actress playing the role: Alisha Khan, Shiju Khataria, Adaa Khan, Ojaswi Oberoi.

Her occupation: Purva, Smriti and Akashi are home makers. Anokhi was a college going girl. No idea if she's done with her studies. Recently she did event management for the Diwali party in her elder sister's house. Everybody appreciated her work. She was so happy and turned emotional when she received her first salary from her elder sister's mom-in-law. I guess she has the ambition to take it as her full time career.

Smriti was shown to be interested in pursuing a course in interior designing and making a career. But later, the serial didn't focus on that. No idea if she is pursuing a course or not.

Any interesting details about her work

(such as is she good at her job, is she ambitious, is her work environment good)

Thanks,

Tammy