We know that Ekta Kapoor is infamous for her out-of-the-world serials. In fact, there are 4 out of 5 most watched serials in the top TRP list. But what these serials are showcasing – extramarital affairs, jealousy, divorce and polygamy. In fact, the series named XXX deliver the message of a woman who is into an extramarital affair after her army husband went to the border. Now for the watchers who assume serials as reality would normalize extramarital affairs and develop trust issues.
Ridiculous Story Of Serial ‘Bade Acche Lagte Hai’
In this serial, the protagonist of the serial very first married Priya, then divorced and married her sister-in-law Ayesha and divorced her too and again married Priya. And these parameters normalize the concept of divorce in India.
Psychological Impact Of Such Serials On Society
These serials point out Polygamy, where women are genuinely at risk of experiencing psychological and emotional stress. For example one study found that women in polygamous marriages are at higher risk of low self-esteem and depression than women in monogamous relationships and enjoy less marital satisfaction and more problematic mother-child relationships.
Disgusting Stereotypes In Every Show
Every TV series showing a rape story portrays rape shaming towards the victim. They show things like the girl who is raped has nothing left in her hand and has to marry the rapist in order to gain her respect back. Do you mean seriously? This would help her out? And often says, “Iska to rape ho gya hai, isse shaadi kaun krega?”. This clearly portrays that a family’s pride is more important than the girl’s own dignity.
These serials portray the villains as modern, Richie, rich and wearing western clothes with a lot of makeovers and being rebellious makes them even more ‘evil’ whereas the actress of the show is always ‘sanskari’, decent and belongs to a middle-class family.
What Is Morality Salience?
Basically the act and viewpoint of watching any TV series or drama is the phenomenon which triggers our inner consciousness when we watch such negative characters in reel life, proven by the journal of mass communication and society and the university of Colorado.
Serials which promote crimes like Gumraah, Crime patrol, Webbed, and Savdhan India show only show murder, kidnapping and extortion we all must watch but you must not know that Delhi Police got cases of first-time criminals confessing to overcoming their fears after being inspired by murder, rapes, extortion know-how and escape routes from crime shows on TV.
What The Cultivation Theory Of Media Says
Professor of Hungary, George Gerbner has proved that those people who are used to watching screens regularly are more likely to get into the characters very quickly. So it’s high time to realising your own capacity and capability rather than trapped in such stupid web of serials.