I agree with annika20. I despise all the TV serials . I want to watch a nice Indian TV soap...but I find no options. I don't want to see nice women who are doormats; I don't want to see the women who keep their interest before others...ultimately turn psycho and in turn get ruined in every TV serial !!...Instead of women characters I want the creatives to either turn doormats kissing everyone's feet... or I want them to behave weird and run around crazy, and we get live telecast of their weirdness --that would be so much more fun to watch compared to always watching such exaggerations in defining the "ideal" women characters...or the twisted representation of the women who stand for themselves!!
I don't watch BV..and get updated here...but people who want to watch BV are watching it...perhaps because atleast it shows some action occasionally even if they hate the way women-characters are treated pathetically. Relatively other serials are as interesting as watching paint dry!!...a serial I "tried" to watch showed 5 women fighting over what is to be cooked...(the one who gets to decide what is to be cooked gains some weird level of supremacy!!)...another one shows a woman lead character shedding tears and being distraught because she is moving her bedroom. No...she is absolutely not possessive about her bedroom (Indian TV serial good girls are strictly not possessive about material things)!!...apparently the reason for her dismay is that she slept with her husband for a few days in that bedroom ... and she cant get over the "memories" of sleeping with her husband in that bedroom--- errr...no her husband wasn't dead and was actually moving out with her into another bedroom --but still she couldn't stop crying for her memories with him in the previous bedroom!!...AAARGHHH
Atleast characters in BV are trying to ponder over something more "significant" like how should ideal women behave with each other-- when apparently the same guy carries the title of their husband !! Sadistic, patriarchal, anarchist, weird...but atleast it is SOME action!!... the other TV serials from what I have seen show women going crazy over nothing!! Doesn't absolve BV of all its crimes towards women characters..!!