On Indian television, a marriage is a grand, opulent event.
When a show's TRPs drop, the producers will turn to a shaadi to keep the audience interested in a number of episodes. In fact, with all the preparations and exciting activities, it might easily last two weeks. However, there is one crucial characteristic in almost all television marriages.
There will be at least one issue that will threaten to disrupt the entire event. These plot twists vary from groom swapping to bride kidnapping to marrying the wrong person! They are ridiculous, yet they are popular, and they show exactly what is amusing on Indian television nowadays!
Marriage in the Indian Culture is a very sacred and a special bond between a man and a woman. Westerners applaud our Indian culture for its values when it comes to marriage and how scared we hold the view of marriage.
According to studies, television has a large effect on society. Some say that it is simply a television series intended for entertainment reasons. Nobody should take whatever a television series portrays seriously. But do you believe the serial makers should go to such lengths only to entertain us?
Give your thoughts on what do you think on how TV serials are portraying the concept of marriage. Do you think, directors of TV serials should start portraying marriage and divorce as something sacred. Or should they just portray it as they like because it's just a TV show? Would the way a TV show portrays a topic have an impact on today's generation?
Over to you...
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