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Sometimes I think there is a huge amount of truth in that! You only get what you deserve, otherwise what would explain the high TRPs and popularity of a show like YRKKH which is incredibly regressive?
On one side you have a Omi who has woken up after 2 kids and decided he needs to separate from his wife because she doesn't share his thoughts and beleifs in life. Fair enough, but has he forgotten that it took him to get Sunaina pregnant or does he beleive the ostrich paid them a visit? Sure marriages fall apart after even years of togetherness but this was out of the blue and not enough substance to make it convincing enough a reason....
On the other side you have Naitik's family. In this day and age, a song and dance about going for a movie? Its not so much the act itself, as the fact that it is symptomatic of the lack of freedom, secondary position of women in the household where dadaji, the man (and not bhabhi ma) is the final artibtrator and women may not question or speak. The woman's place is either in the bedroom (probably reading hanuman chalisa since romance of any kind seems to be frowned upon) or in the kitchen rustling up dishes for their men and ensuring that they look bejewelled and pretty when the man comes home, wait hand and foot to feed the men before the poor women can sit down to eat! I am surprised they didn't show Naitik and Akshara seeking dadaji, bhabi ma & Naitik's parents' permission to consumate their marriage!!
Yes YRKKH is a show and needs to be taken with a pinch, no make that a fistful, of salt. respect and consideration for elders is the cornerstone of the Hindu philosophy and one applauds depiction of that but that's where it stops! The reality is that there are thousands of young impessionable minds as well as some old fashioned ones who watch this show. The younger ones get conditioned to see and accept regressive practices while the older ones grunt in satisfaction at an outdated stand being validated.
So Mr Sahai, it would be nice if the women were not only trophy wives whose sole purpose of existence was looking pretty, being harangued for marriage or children, cooking in the kitchen or cleaning and decorating their bedrooms while they waited for the men to come home!!
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