We all have parents or grandparents watching TV serials in our homes. I am not against them watching these shows – because it’s not my place to decide what they do with their leisure time, right? But some of these TV serials just make you want to go and confront the directors and producers.
Let’s talk about a TV serial in Bengali called, ‘Nakshi katha’. A serial where a Muslim woman is saved from her Muslim dad by a Hindu boy who has been married to his long term best friend. They are all aspiring doctors.
But it is a disgrace to see the way the serial portrays the whole story. The Muslim woman falls in love with the boy and the boy falls for her too – but as he is married to his best friend so he cannot do anything.
So they start abusing each other in different ways – with the idea being the more you hurt someone the more you love them… At least that’s what the show producers want the viewers to believe.
When she is brought to the boy’s house, she is treated like a doormat by everyone. She is insulted over and over by his family and his wife. Members of the house treat her like a plague. Bringing up her parents and upbringing in every dialogue they throw at her.
This Muslim woman is an aspiring doctor. She comes from a middle class family. She knows her ethics and ways of life. So,why is this TV show bending over backwards to show how degrading it is to be a Muslim woman and have an education, and be under the roof of a Hindu family?
Why does the show want to depict that the Hindu family is disgusted by her presence in the house? She is given food in a bowl with a mix of everything that has gravy and is made to sit on the floor which is degrading. It is shocking that the author Lina Gangopadhaye has portrayed something so regressive that is impossible to watch and digest.
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