Tanubhrt.This.Side

The girl is scared, bit dumb and full of ego and attitude issues. The boy is a brat and is the perfect bully, but inside has a beautiful heart. They two meet and fight. The boy bullies the girl, makes her do things below a human dignity. He shouts at her and makes fun of her. Magically, after a few months, the two falls in love with each other and cannot live without each other. WHAT !! What about that lost self-respect, the dignity of the woman? Where is it? More importantly, the question of career, of achieving things?

The Indian Television for the past decades has been showing us love stories, of how a poor girl falls in love with a brat boy and they both change each other and live happily ever after!! For the TRPs of the show, the concept is amazing. It is nice to see two genders fighting over trivial things, troubling each other, sometimes its funny even. But, what about the impact it has on the youth of the country. For a girl, who is in school, figuring out who exactly she is, has no role models for herself. She is left with no one more than a woman, who is running after some man for love. Or is tolerating the shouts and anger of a man for something the television has told us to be love!!

But, what about the independent woman, the one who takes care of her parents, has a career and is living or rather leading her life. Where is the depiction of the struggles and the failures of the woman trying to make it large in the world? In my entire teenage years, all I had was a woman who was just crying or making love to a man or fighting with him. Nowhere did I found stories of a woman, who went out loud in the world and said, ” I am going to make this life of mine amazing.”

Only a decade later is there a realization that Indian television has been ruining the lives of so many people around, shaping the country in ways that are not the best for the country! Television has a power to shape things around and make our country a better one. Sadly, there are not many producers and directors that understand, how important it is for them to ensure that they use the power well.

It is now the time to make shows where we depict woman as strong, the ones who would like to make a change in the world. Women like Indira Nooyi, Kalpana Chawla, Oprah Winfrey, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Sheela Dikshit, Indira Gandhi, Kasturba Gandhi and so many more. We become what we often see a teenager, I wish we have better things to see as teenagers.