Dear Indira,
I can understand where you are coming from. But even in the most progressive of societies, not everything is hunky dory all the time. Love marriages fail all too often, whence a high divorce rate. Custody battles follow, which are very hard on the children. Stepfathers often abuse the children of the earlier marriage - this is as old as Dickens and David Copperfield!- and in the ugliest cases, it is not just physical abuse. Social service workers are often oblivious to gross physical abuse of kids in foster care till they end up dead.
Then, even in these times of freely available contraception, there are the ever increasing numbers of children born out of wedlock, often to teenage mothers ill equipped in every way to care for them. I have lived a lot in the West, I have seen a lot of this at first hand, and I can't stand much of the above either.
In India today, the law against domestic violence is very strong, so much so that some cunning wives have used it to file false cases against their husbands, and get hefty out of court settlements. Of course real domestic violence has not disappeared, bolstered by the beaten woman syndrome familiar in the West as well, but the tide is turning.
As for Kabir being thrashed by his father - thanks to Jahnvi, otherwise he would have only slapped him - I don't see it the way I would a child or a woman being beaten. Kabir is a full grown man who.can look after himself.
This said, I find this show unappealing on several grounds, which could have been easily toned down with cleverer scripting.
PK Mittal could have been as autocratic as they wanted him to be without being so crude, and stupid as well. Has he not heard of social media leaks? He could easily have behaved regressively at home, while gaining brownie points with the public by announcing that his son had married a widow. But no, he is so dumb, such a ranting thug, that he ends up as a caricature.
Kavya looks more like an object, not a subject, a woman trying to gain control of her own life. Maybe she will improve, but right now her lachrymose face gets on my nerves.
Jahnvi is still credible, for she is in her assumed character 98% of the time, like a good intelligence agent. The little hints of satisfaction are very subtle, not in your face as is often the case. But even she cuts corners. Why did she go personally to order PK Mittal's head? It was a huge and unnecessary risk. And anyone might have come in while she is caressing the head, with the bullet hole in the forehead, with obvious satisfaction.
Shyamala Cowsik
Originally posted by: Indira1211
I’m an overseas viewer....and I’m finding this show very regressive in many aspects and hence it’s not relatable...where I live widows and divorced women remarry if they wish to...nobody judges them...arranged marriages ended in my parents generation...so now very few people if any marry via an arranged marriage,..most marriages are love marriages...and both in schools and homes...children beatings and abuse are not allowed ...so ayubs character is really very bad ...where he beats his adult son so badly...and most women nowadays are educated and independent financially ...so if their husband dies, they can support themselves and their children ..they don’t need another man to support them... I know this is not the case in many countries ...but this is how the modern progressive world operates..so EBSS..does not appear to be a modern progressive show ...and hence it may not appeal to a lot of people...
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