By Vaibhav Bhosle
Don’t be surprised, if one fine day
you return home late at night and your wife looks at you with suspicion. She might
also check if there’s any lipstick mark on your shirt. Thanks to the side
effects of the daily soaps which have become a part of your life, directly or
indirectly.
The television world might seem
confined to the size of your T.V screen. But, you cannot deny the impact it is
making on the households throughout the country. Even the long lost film actors
regained their fan following via television reality shows (also recuperating
their broken fortune).
Almost every television saga starts
with social issues in the society. Before the launch of the series, they
promote the show very tactfully by showing the protagonist striking back
against eve-teasers or the leading lady dreaming to become an IPS officer. However,
she eventually gets married to the eve-teaser and the aspiring IPS officer is
shown rolling Rotis for her
better-half. She is shown shedding tears most of the time because that is how
the way it is supposed to be. The more she weeps, more the TRP’s. Daily soaps
have also been the biggest promoters of plastic surgery (height, weight, voice,
etc also changes with the plastic surgery).
Whatever s**t they possibly
display, the Indian audiences devotedly watch the show and love it to the core.
They not only love it, but also look at the protagonist as their idols. The
audiences for the daily soaps are not only homemakers but surprisingly there
has been rise even in the male audiences.
The characters shown in the serial
are usual and day to day life type. So, it’s quite natural for the audiences to
relate themselves with them. As the audiences start associating with the
characters they start influencing in that way. I was startled to know that my
friend’s petite sister was upset with him because he did not care for her the
way some television character did for his sister. I have even heard of incidences where housewives
refuse to go in kitchen during their favorite daily soap.
The purpose of
television is for entertainment and education. But, it’s not worthy to get
social messages from the TV serial. It won’t be appropriate to blame the serial
as they are TRP (Television Rating Point) driven and they telecast what the audiences demand. It’s not
even an awful practice to watch daily soaps but the audiences must realize that
the ‘Adarsh Beta’ or ‘Adarsh Bahu’ (Ideal Son or Ideal daughter-in-law) are entirely
fictitious and they might not be behaving a bit that way in their personal
life. Entertainment should be the prime purpose for watching Daily Soaps and not
the right source to instigate our behavior from it.
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