5 Indian TV Serials That Should Be Banned For Showing Degradation Of Woman

                 The content of Indian Television is hitting all time low. All thanks to the regressive serials shown on television from almost a decade. Our parents and grandparents were lucky to have progressive shows like Hum Log, Shanti, Idhar Udhar, etc. which were ahead of their time. But the current TV serials shows content which takes us 50-100 years back. Below are the 5 current shows which should be banned for showing and promoting degradation of women.

1. Ishqbaaaz- In this how, one of the male leads forcibly marries the female lead by threatening to kill her 7-8 year old brother by car blast. Instead of being angry, the female lead starts loving the male lead. And after few months, she forgets everything as if nothing happened. Then after few more months, they happily remarry after confessing their love to each other. There are 2 more sets of lead couples. In this show, the heroes having multiple affairs are taken coolly and as fun including when one of the heroes were doubted to be father of a baby which from other woman. Recently, the 3 brothers are shown having fun with a girl while being drunk and under the influence of drug. But on the contrary, 2 of the female leads are insulted and abused very badly by their male leads even they thought that they had affair with other men let alone them doing the above things which heroes did. The situation is not at all cool and funny when it involves the female leads.

2. Jeet Gayi To Piya More- In this show, the male lead is not less than a criminal. He forcibly marries the female lead after threatening to kill her family including her 7-8 year old niece. The female lead who was a final year medical student changes drastically after marriage. Instead of finding a way to get out of this forced marriage, she starts her mission to change her animal husband into a human. Her husband and in-laws torture her everyday but still she wants to change her husband.

3. Tu Suraj Main Saanjh Piyaji- In this show, the male lead who is from a very conservative family forcibly marries a female lead from a modern family as he thinks that God has given him a signal to marry her. He is a very conservative man whose mentality is of the past century. He thinks that a wife should be submissive like a daasi(maid-servant) and entertainer like Rambha(a dancer in mythology) to her husband. After marriage, she is forced to follow many rules like not wearing western clothes like she wore earlier, not using cell-phones, drinking gomutra(cow urine) not drinking tea, waking up very early in the morning, not eating non-veg, not touching a woman on her periods and so on. When her brothers, one of whom is an ACP, comes to know the reality of her marriage, they file complaint against her husband and puts him in jail but instead of getting happy the female lead gets him out of jail as she starts falling in love with him even though her husband not at all regrets what all he did with her. She is only shown trying to please her husband and in-laws.

4. Kumkum Bhagya- In this show, the male lead marries the female lead as he thought that she snatched his sister's love which was not true. He sleeps with his girlfriend on the wedding with his wife thus cheating on her. He keeps his girlfriend and his wife in the same house from 3 years since their marriage. He is shown so dumb that he never understands how evil his sister and girlfriend are. This serial shows the repetitive things like the female's lead kidnapping, the plotting of male lead's sister and girlfriend against the female lead, the male lead acting dumb, the female lead not able to prove the 2 evil women wrong as they are too smart, the male lead stuck and confused between his wife and girlfriend, the accident of either female lead or male, memory loss of either male lead or female lead and so on. When the female lead was framed into having an affair with her ex-fiance, the male lead insults her very badly and tell her to prove her innocence in 24 hours or else leave the house but the same man shamelessly keeps his wife and girlfriend in the same house from 3 years.

5. Ek Mayavi Prem Gaatha- Chandrakanta- This show is based on the classic Indian novel Chandrakanta written by author Devkinandan Khatri.  This serial don’t even shows 5% of the novel Chandrakanta let alone it being based on the novel. The story in the serial has been distorted from the novel from day 1 of the show. This serial based on Chandrakanta novel don’t even have the main villains from the book like Shiv Dutt and Kroor Singh though Shiv Dutt was only mentioned and not ever shown while Kroor Singh was hardly shown in few scenes but none of these 2 characters were hinted as villains. Instead, the show has villains which are not written in the novel. The male lead Virendra is given the characteristic like the villain Shiv Dutt who was the actual villain of the novel when Virendra was actually a kind and gentle person. Chandrakanta who was supposed to be always a princess was shown as a daasi(maid-servant) at a palace unaware that she is a princess herself who became an orphan after her parents were killed by the villain Iravati. In this show, Virendra and Chandrakanta are married in the 7th episode when in the novel they marry at the end. Instead of marrying out of love like the novel, Virendra marries her for some kind of revenge just like it is shown in many TV shows in India. Recently, Virendra is shown killing Chandrakanta and then getting engaged to a female villain Gehna on the 1st death anniversary of Chandrakanta. He was revealed to be pretending to be in love with Chandrakanta from the start when in reality he was only working for his evil step-mother who wanted Chandrakanta killed after getting a magical dagger from her. The people who watch this show will have bad impression on them regarding the novel Chandrakanta with the way this show is ruining a classic novel of India.

                  The above shows should be banned for showing and promoting degradation and abuse of women. Shocking, these shows have high TRPs while the shows which actually show good and progressive contents gets low TRPs which forces the makers of those shows to show regressive contents in their to increase their TRPs. There are many good shows that end early due to low TRPs as people of today's generation especially teenage and youth girls are attracted to the shows where the male lead tortures and degrades the female leads and later those female leads change the male leads with their love. The shows where the heroines start as modern and bold women are soon changed into traditional and doormat to increase TRPs as people especially girls of today's generations can't accept women as modern and bold who is grey in character but they are ready to accept the male lead even if he has done many crimes. And the blames are given to women who in the age group of 30 to 70 when in reality these same women watched and accepted the progressive shows like Hum Log, Idhar Udhar, Udaan(old show of DD), Shanti, Saans, Rajni and many more such shows in 80s and 90s era which were ahead of its time and showed the women as modern and independent unlike the women in current TV shows. This shows that current generation are to be blamed for deteriorating contents in Indian Television in present time. The content in the present shows have spoiled the mind of today's generation girls which makes them unable to accept progressive content in TV serials of today.