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Now that SP is finally ending , the question that arises in our minds is ...........what did SP do for dark girls ? The answer is ..........nothing . SP only made the lead actress Rajshree Thakur famous , bas , but although it started out with a bang ..........addressing the social issue of dark girls in India , where fair gals r given preference in the marraige market .....what exactly did SP do for the dark gals who hopefully watched this show ? The answer is ..........nothing . It only raised the hopes of the dark gals to dash them to the ground . SP could have given so much more ............but all it showed was that yes , perhaps a dark gal can have a momentary fairy tale wedding , but her fate will always be unfortunate .
Was it for this that hundreds of dark gals in India got hooked on this show ? It is a throbbing issue that in the Indian marraige market , dark gals r treated like second class citizens. This is the pulse that SP caught , but Saloni 's miserable life after marraige with no personal happiness and now Sawri's demure , sheepish demeanour , enduring any atrocity flung her way , would make any dark gal watching this show outraged .
And now they r ending the show .........shame on SP for tricking multitudes of viewers who hoped to see the concept of beauty in India redifined , that dark gals can be immensely succesful , that boys wud go scuttling for dark gals once SP was over with the impact it made on the viewership ! That dark gals wud get more self esteem after watching SP ...........I am not talking of the cities but those in villages ! This problem is really severe in rural India .......and television is such a powerful medium !
Of course SP makers will say they owe nothing to no one .........they just made a TV serial for commercial success , bas . And it was highly succesful ! They r not a social organisation etc etc . But aren't the creative team made of human beings in India who know exactly what majority of Indian women suffer in the marraige market due to the color discrimination issue ..........wasn't this the pulse that they cleverly caught to hook the viewers ? And that very viewership that made u succesful , u guys don't deliver what they want ??!!!
SP took a dusky beauty and made her a household name .........Rajshree Thakur . But even before her , Waheeda Rehman , Bipasha Basu , Priyanka Chopra , recenly Deepika Padukone et etc have already proved that one needn't be fair to be beautiful . SP wud have really done something creative if they had not played safe and taken just a dusky but even darker gal for the character of Saloni . They shud have dared . And yes , they shud have dared to show that she has the capacity to catch success in her fist and bring it in her life !
Why was it not shown that Saloni could achieve success in her personal life too , that she emerged a winner as a wife and as a mother too ? R Dark girls meant to lay down their lives for protecting the butts of some spoilt fair women .............like Saloni protected Tara or Sawri protects Shweta ? This awful , servile message for color discriminated women .............was that what SP was about ? Coz this show literally gives nothing as it ends !
No one wanted to see dark women suffering all the time . We wanted , for a change , to see dark women winning , and SP failed to deliver .
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