Does making perfectly round rotis, make you a good wife?

Ekta Kapoor is everywhere. She's on TV accepting awards. She's in the papers giving some godforesaken interview after the other. And most importantly she is eating into your family time with a plethora of mind-numbing K-serials which has spawned a whole breed of wannabe actors and celebs, whose style sense rules the way an average woman is dressing up today.

I remember this incident very clearly, coz it had me laugh out loud in the middle of my shopping. I was shopping for some cool earrings one afternoon, when this lady, I'll call her Pinky(she was dressed in all pink, with matching shoes, handbag and the works)with pink eyeliner for crying out loud)She came into the store, and told the salesperson that she wanted the same "Pearl Drop Earrings" that Parvati was wearing in the last episode of Kahaani Ghar Ghar ki. The poor man had to search and search, and rake up the entire collection to match the requirements. But alas, our lady was hard to please. Not finding the object of her desire, our Pinky Parvati stomped outta the shop, saying that the colection wasnt 'up to date'!!

For heaven's sake..what the hell is wrong with women today? Why watch these mindless serials with 'multiple close-up shots'? Why watch these serials where women are perpetually in agony and distress? Why watch family sagas, where happiness is but an excuse for the next crisis to strike?

I detest watching these K-serials because I think they are a royal disrspect to today's women. But I have been thinking lately that they are being dished out to the audience, because there is a certain section which hangs on to every word of these Tulsis and Parvatis and Gangas, and what not. there are women, who have made these telly divas their role models?

Whatever happened to the intelligent, straight-talking, assertive woman? Whatever happened to spending quality time with your family and friends? why are the women glued to the TV between 9-11? 

These are the serials that tell women that making perfectly round rotis for the family is what makes you a perfect wife; forget about respect, love and companionship. These are the serials which tell women that those women who follow careers are the vamps; and those who sit at home and cry all the good ones.

Come on Ms Ekta Kapoor, how many serials have you made which document the life of an outgoing career woman as its central plot? How many times have you made it out to be that those women who follow their careers, neglect their family in the bargain, and hence are bad women?

I wish there was some way to shake the Indian woman sitting in front of the TV watching Tulsi in action, and make her realise what a waste of time it is. I wish there was a way in which women could be told that there is a life beyond the Saas Bahu sagas. All they need to do is open their eyes, and see.

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