Today is yet another Monday ,the beginning of a new week,but for me,in my household,it is the beginning of yet another dreadful week of melodrama and false crocodile-tears of the protagonists of the ever-continuing family soaps that are produced by that horrendous lady called Ekta Kapoor!!!
A person living in India who has not heard about Ekta Kapoor is very rare.Whether you like her or hate her,you cannot ignore her.She always hogs the limelight on prime time television..be it the tele-soaps or the vernacular news channel.Name any topic in this world that you hate and she has mentioned it in her serials.What is more surprising is that she even gets sponsors for these bullshit soaps.
If you carefully follow her serials,you are bound to discover that they are essentially based on the same boring topics.On one hand she is obsessed with woman empowerment, on the other hand she always shows her female protagonists to be exploited in the serials, such is the irony.Moreover I think that she is a firm believer in the process of polygamy because not a single male protagonist in her serial is portrayed with a single wife,they have a minimum of at least two or three partners..and there is always a tussle for supremacy between these two partners and in this way she veers away from her main aim of showing woman empowerment and delves into the melodramatic quarrels of the family.
And just when you think that enough is enough and get exasperated,there comes another twist..a 20 year leap ion the story line and the same story gets repeated only this time the protagonists are a generation younger.And in these serials,the grandmothers and great grandmothers never grow old and their passions of love are never doused so they join forces with their younger generations in shuttling between their multiple partners.
Coming to the point i started off with, if you sit down to watch her serials as a source of anecdote for women empowerment,then you r going to be severely mistaken,because in India the women who are oppressed do not get the opportunity neither do they have the finances to wear such expensive clothes and designer dresses and hosting parties and pujas in the houses are a monthly affair and another common event about these so-called social gatherings is that one dark secret of the household gets spilled .
On a concluding note I certainly hope and pray to god that better sense prevails over the people in my household and over the Indian public in general so that many people like me do not have to be tortured by these horrendous serials during prime time television hours.
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