Indian television has grown bigger in terms of the output in the last few years. There are innumerous channels airing uncountable shows telecasted every single day, through the night as well.
The television is all about exaggerated expression of anything and everything. The scripts, characterization and dialogues are so garish in spirit that each time we watch one of those saas bahu sagas we seem to say ‘Apne rang itne bhi mat chalakne do’ that all of it looses sense, importance and its meaning.
The saas bahu sagas are dramatic exaggeration of life in reality. The character shades are the top. The setting and backdrop of each of the saga is shown to be extremely cultural, traditional and conventional. It is funny indeed to see the twisted and crooked storylines accumulating all that’s scheming, evil and negative and missing out on all the little joys and colour of life. The little things that these shows miss out are the most important ones; they are the shades of trust and respect within the family.
These soaps do not seem to respect audiences and totally negate the fact that audience today is grown up. The regressive representation of household and women’s characters, the drag of the scripts, multiple weddings of lead characters, swapped relationships speak of nothing but the blackness and greyness of evil. It is time to move beyond the decked up caricatures of an ideal bahu who is so dumb that she misses on the most obvious of things, a treacherous vamp who sleeps with her make-up on, a saas who looks more than often younger than her son and doesn’t allow any kind of say to her husband or anyone else. It is time to look beyond the sarees, manicures, pedicures and jewelry contributing to create a farce of real life shades!
Wake up janta for its time to let go of fake colours of over expressions and embrace the real and creative ones!
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