Originally posted by: kundra
I hope this happens too then Zoya will learn a lesson.
I'm sorry but that's a terribly insensitive statement. It's easy to take a leap from here and then for folks to find justification for the various people who advise women on how to dress, how to behave, what to do, where to go and then blame them using these very reasons if they are assaulted.
Admittedly, creatives have shown Zoya as hare-brained and I'm not defending her behaviour here but no woman deserves to be assaulted in order to be "taught a lesson". Also, Zoya has been travelling up and down Bhopal in search of her father so there is a tiny possibility that knowing there wasn't a bus strike, she thought she could get a bus back too? Women do travel alone in small cities too.
I thought this was really the easiest way to create conflict when all is hunky-dory between Asad and Zoya. They've done it before by making Asad believe Tanveer blindly and now by making Zoya behave like a child. Okay, if they don't want to show Zoya working or any of the women having a life beyond getting the men they want (Gul said she does not care for "high class realism") but it would be palatable at least if the women are shown with a sense of self-preservation/self-worth instead of becoming suicidal.
Creatives are ignorant about how women in New York behave so the 'yeh Bhopal hai, New York nahin' excuse doesn't fly. New York can be plenty unsafe for men and women both - crime statistics indicate it is more unsafe than many metros in India. Generally, women all over the world take precautions travelling alone, especially in a new city, and by showing Zoya's half-assed adventure, they've done a disservice, especially in the wake of the recent rape in Bombay and the chorus beginning again about the journalist venturing into an unsafe area.
So, no. I do not like the implication in the last few episodes that women are incapable of making sensible judgements about people/places and then needing to learn lessons.