Originally posted by: DMGFan-2b-not2b
Am reproducing something I had written elsewhere:
I am zapped at the lightness with which a TV show deals with a mind numbing, soul destroying act like non-consensual sex.
It doesn't matter whether it happens to a man or woman, its as debilitating to either sex. It destroys you emotionally and mentally, makes you vulnerable, makes you despair and doubt your own self.
Its not that it doesn't happen, of course it does and I,m not about to go ballistic cos Gul used it,though I feel there were other ways of showing a separation between the leads but I think Gul had been leading upto this all this while, so it shouldn't have come as a surprise.
No, I have an issue with the way this will be dealt with. There would be a lot of crying and screaming, accusations will fly, and maybe Asad will be an ass and continue to defend Tanu and apologise for his behaviour and then pooof! It will all be dusted off and forgotten!
Asad will run after Zoya, beg her forgiveness, Zoya will forgive after much natak and they'll be happy lovey dovey scenes that Gul knows the audiences will moon over and a very stark, despicable, shameful and critical thing would have been treated like another thing to be forgotten and flicked away.
To 4Lions, Zoya snooping around and Asad ostensibly getting forced into sex when drugged are pretty much the same - they both will get the same light hearted flippant treatment!
What never ceases to surprise me is our cinema and television's cavalier attitude and willingness to use it to sensationalise their content and gain viewership and never bother to really handle it with the care and sensitivity it deserves.
Its this flippancy and ready resort status of non-consensual sex that bothers me.
And before any one says, yes reel life does have a huge impact on real life!