Originally posted by: BrhannadaArmour
On the Marathi daily dramas that I've watched, female leads generally don't give up their jobs. Occasionally, they make progress - for example, Latika on Sundara Manamadhe Bharali works at the bank and just got promoted to Assistant Manager. For a while, she was covering her husband's mortgage payments too. And she gives him advice about presentations and negotiations. Today, when she was lecturing him about restoring the neighbourly relationship of their families, he tuned her out and when she asked, "What did I just say?" he replied, "The usual, I have no budget, I don't plan ahead, I'm an impulse buyer, I change my mind too much ..."
One absurdity is that no matter how suddenly the wedding happens, the heroine always gets to choose how soon to rejoin her job. She even asks her mother-in-law if it is all right to continue working. It's quite insulting that the question is still, "Will she be able to balance her housework and her career?" and not, "Will her husband and in-laws step up with the housework so that she can focus on her career?"
I really wish to learn other languages apart from hindi punjabi and english just to see all the marvelous content available…