I currently am a DT member of Saubhagyavati Bhava, which once rivaled DkDM as the #1 show on LifeOK. There is one thing about that serial that rubs me the wrong way, and actually had me reported to my own DT when I pointed it out.
The story essentially was themed around domestic violence - a girl named Jhanvi is tormented by her husband Viraj for months, gets raped by him, becomes pregnant and loses her child when he beats her in her pregnant condition. After that point, she, along w/ her MIL, makes good her escape, but her car crashes, & her MIL is killed. W/ the help of Viraj's doctor who revealed to them that he had an OCPD disorder, she faked her death, fled to another city under an assumed name Sia, and found another guy (the other lead of the serial), whose name is Raghav. He sheltered her, and her husband secretly discovered her whereabouts and stalked her. Several months later, she told Raghav about it, and after a whole series of convoluted events, Viraj was exposed, arrested and sent to jail. She applied for a divorce, and in today's episode, finally got it.
Now, since his name is Raghav, and her (assumed) name is Sia, the serial casts their relationship as a Rama-Sita relationship. I support her getting a divorce from her husband and marrying Raghav, but I've had a real beef w/ this Rama-Sita theme to their romance, since the parallels b/w them are just not there. I once pointed out that if Jhanvi/Sia was Sita, then logically, that would make her husband Viraj Rama, not Raghav, and I was reported to my DT for equating Rama to a rapist 🤢 Somehow, not many recognize how odious the comparison is, even putting aside the fact that Jhanvi is nothing compared to Sita, nor is Raghav to Rama. But whenever the serial shows an action sequence of Raghav, it plays in rap-like notes 'Raghupati Raghav Raja Rama' and has made that almost Raghav's second ID. 🤢
Aside from that, I agree w/ Varaali's views on this. I don't watch movies, but yeah, they'd be a lot less fast & loose w/ mocking religions other than Hindu. I disagree w/ her a bit on Christianity, since throughout the West, the DaVinci Chronicles were freely shown, and all that Christian groups did were to appeal to their flock to boycott it, which is a perfectly legitimate appeal. In India, that movie was banned only in a few states, making India the only country to go any length against an anti-Christian movie.
But yeah, either mock ALL religions, or mock NONE.
Edited by .Vrish. - 11 years ago
