Jamnaprasad (Kunal Kemmu), son of Gangaprasad (Piyush Mishra) and Saraswati (Alka Amin) and husband of Madhuri (Shweta Tripathi Sharma), is the miserly sort who skimps on the essentials and even stubs out incense sticks after he is done with his prayers.
As the Indian government shut down life as it existed, millions of migrant workers, who depend on their livelihood for jobs in big cities, had nowhere to go overnight as the uncertain lock down left them without livelihood or any means thereof.
Micky (Ranbir) and Tinny (Shraddha) meet at the bachelor party of their respective best friends Dabbas (Anubhav Singh Bassi) and Kinchi (Monica Chaudhary). . As they flirt and send their hearts flying to each other, by the time the trip is over, they are an item.
Would you hire a person who wrote these stories, asks Nilanjana Why would OTT not pick these writers and improve the writing? All the Tv shows are available for catch up on their platforms for people to watch anytime so the streamers would not compete with them.
If you are turbo on Hindi Serials, we betcha you thought marrying another woman while being legally wedded to one, divorcing her by just giving your wife a stamp paper saying “Divorce”, asking married women to leave their marital homes, transfering homes, cars and businesses by stealing just the ownership papers, being married by just pouring dollops of sindoor in someone’s hair parting, forcefully impregnating one’s self as a surrogate of another couple’s baby, DUI and escaping with no consequences after you commit a crime are normal
It is not only about the show makers and writers- what about the audience? Why is the audience not watching the shows that are presenting realistic plots?
The responsibility also lies with the audience to be brave to be a part of the change they want to see.
The audience also needs to be brave It is a chicken and egg story. On the one end, the television industry is serving these women
Even when television show creators are women, they do not shy from showing fake feminists on screen in their own shows.
What is really required is a broadcaster like Danish Khan, from Sonytv says Nilanjana.
What do the writers have to do to bring the rating back up if there is a fall in the ratings of the show. Is there a formula for this?
Nilanjana feels that it is subjective and does depend upon on the channel and the stakeholders.
In the Indian TV universe for a woman to have walked out of a marriage, where they all have to stay in a marriage till they die is a big deal, Anupama has made it possible in storytelling. And that is an achievement.
But isnt the problem with the story that she is still there with those toxic people?
Making Hindi serials misogynst is smart business because the women who watch these serials majorly come from homes with a single TV on the premises. They do not have the freedom of choice to watch what they want or the privacy as well.
For years, we have seen the regressive factor in Indian television content grow by leaps and bounds. While we keep pointing out the mindless, insensitive, misogynistic plots, what do the writers of the shows think about it.
we speak about what is the motivation for the plots written for the #hindiserials. Sometimes the same writers are writing 6 episodes a week for multiple shows across production houses and channels, with tight delivery schedules.
Would you hire a person who wrote these stories, asks Nilanjana
Why would OTT not pick these writers and improve the writing?
What do low expectations and acceptance of regressive, convoluted plots tell the world about the talent of our Hindi Serial universe?
Moreover, what does it tell the world about the quality of the audience that watches it?
If you are turbo on Hindi Serials, we betcha you thought marrying another woman while being legally wedded to one, divorcing her by just giving your wife a stamp paper saying “Divorce”, asking married women to leave their marital homes, transfering homes, cars and businesses by stealing just the ownership papers, being married by just pouring dollops of sindoor in someone’s hair parting, forcefully impregnating one’s self as a surrogate of another couple’s baby, DUI and escaping with no consequences after you commit a crime are normal – We are here to tell you how ridiculous these plots are.
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