TW : Child abuse, grooming, child marriage, paedophila
Sorry don't watch this show and sorry if this post offends anyone. Came across this promo on TV. I actually love Shagun's acting from KUDCA days
But this show essentially is normalising and even romanticising a non-platonic relationship between a minor and a fully grown adult. An adult who is in the executive branch no less.
Going on my years of itv shitposting, they either were forced to marry at gunpoint and/or to save her izzat/life.
Itv (and global showbiz at large) has an issue of sexualisation of child actors. ITV is especially complicit in casting minors as adult romantic FLs against men double their age. Reem in Rabta, Ashnoor, Sumbul, Shagun's counterpart in KUDCA, Niharika in Faltu come to mind. This is inherently exploitative.
These female characters are mainly barely legal adults finding themselves in highly traumatising, lopsided, high-stakes romantic relationships with male characters double their ages.
These topics are very inappropriate for impressionable child actors in the first place even if there is no explicit sexualisation in the shows. That's why I find Aurra's or even her older counterpart's casting in Barrister Babu disgusting. Minors should be taught to recognise grooming and sexual exploitation rather than being made to internalise traumatising marital politics. Aurra should have been reading about Rammohun Roy in school instead of playing a child bride 12 hours a day 7 days a week.
Don't know if the actor playing the FL in this show is an adult or not (I desperately hope they are for the sake of their own mental and emotional safety and growth) but the FL as a character itself is a minor and in love with her husband who is a cop?
And he is shown to be slowly getting attracted to his child bride?
Even if there is no sexual undercurrent in their scenes, how the hell does a normal, well-balanced, non-criminal adult fall in love with a minor with no world experience? Or, remotely finds them attractive in any way?
And even if I ignore that there is no way an adult, a cop no less, cannot accurately gauge the age of a young person, what excuse is there for a cop to not get a (forced) marriage annulled or registered for his job requirements which would have anyhow revealed the age of the minor FL?
And the current plotpoint exposes the age of the child bride to drive an angsty angle between the leads. ONE OF WHOM IS LITERALLY A CHILD? The narrative poses it as a fault of fate or the FL instead of slapping a POSCO case on the ML.
This show is literally paedophilia apologia.The videos are filled with comments of "Pati ho toh Veer jaisa." Actors like Shagun and Tejasswi need to hold themselves responsible for the kind of scripts they choose NCW needs to shut it down for all the harm it is doing to young audience.
The producers needs to be booked because wtf.
PSA : Young people, that older guy/woman who is telling you that you are mature for your age" or that they "love you" is grooming you and you need to tell your parents and report them ASAP. They are harming you and can cause even more dire harm. They do not love you. They are predators. You are not at fault.
Tagging people I know with whom I have had similar convos.
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