A son is a son till he gets his wife.
A daughter is a daughter through out her life

Those lines told to me by my dad to let me know how important I was to him. It made me feel so proud to be his daughter. The article I am going to write has nothing to do with me or my dad but it has got to do with my biggest obsession and passion. No guesses on that, it is TV.

Gone are the days of saas and bahus, those vamps and those weird stories. Before you start heaving a sigh of relief and dream of better days on television. Let me get you back to reality. Our scriptwriters are heading towards the same mundane content with a twist.

Now the poor oppressed sob queen is the DAUGHTER! Yes, if by any chance you have turned on your tv sets and have seen the trailers of Betiyaa......ghar ki lakshmi or Paraya Dhan, then God bless you!

Initially, even I felt good about the change of tracks but a glimpse of them wit my soap obsessed mum, made my heart sink. This is far more regressive than the saas bahu sagas. The daughters are shown to be the very mature, docile and yet rational. The son to be a spoilt and not so aagyakaari.

It made me wonder, we have now come to this in the 21st century? Showing the importance of a girl child means to show the male child in such a demeaning manner! What were the makers thinking? I do agree that in various places in India, girl child is very unwanted and is not provided all her rights but this presentation made me feel sick inside my stomach. The families represented by them in these sagas are all rich classes. None of the discriminating parents are illiterates but full fledged entrepreneurs! Its just sad that our creativity and thirst for TRPs has stooped so low. I do miss the days of Doordarshan where they used cartoon skits to convey the message. Remeber mitthu???