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Soap Operas:A Battle Field

I am not fond of  TV serials and I always refused to see those teledramas. Unfortunately, one day while I was tuning the channels the TV remote suddenly got stuck for about 10 minutes. That 10 minutes...I was forced to see a serial.  Then the next day I watched the same serial to get a picture of what they are tracking. After watching that I feel pity on the way by which those serial makers are representing the relation between a typical Indian mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. 
    The common plot of most of the serials is the quarrel between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. There will be a ferocious mother-in-law with heavy make-up, lots of jewelries and jazzy sarees. She is portrayed as the one who is always blaming her daughter-in-law, making her work the whole time and may even try to stop her son having sex with his wife. At the same time, the daughter-in-law is a namby-pamby character who always shed tears. Sons in serials are totally hushed and unworried. Serial makers always drag serials as much as possible to make a non-ending torment. Even after 3 years since its been running, we can get to the point. I wonder why the producers of these soap operas portray the relation between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in a shoddy way. If there is awards for fabrication of real family relationships, I am sure that it will go only to these soap operas. 

                                 


     From my point of view, the relation between the in-laws is eons away from what is showing in serials. The soap operas are inducing a bad impact on youngsters. They make a cruel picture of in-law relationship. Even an 8 year old child is addicted to these kind of serials and many unmarried ladies think that mother-in-law is a cruel one. The Times when Daughter-in-laws thought of Mother-in-laws as their own mothers and Mother-in-laws thought of their Daughter-in-laws are gone. The serials have an inescapable role in these change. These TV Serials nowadays show too much of Female Villainy in these shows. Even though they suggest they are just bringing out the crisis in real life, they are becoming the reason for a lot of family misunderstanding. The story doesn't have any novelty. The youngsters are expecting the same negativism in real life also without trying to understand the reel mother-in-law in these soaps. Thus the Indian serials are vandalizing the society.

                           

I heard from my friend who got married an year ago that the relationship with mother-in-law is the most shaky one as shown in these soaps. But I don't believe so. A mother-in-law is also a "mother". So how she hurts you emotionally or physically ? A good example of healthy in-law relationship is given in Bible by the story of Ruth and Naomi. Ruth chose her mother-in-law over her own family and amazingly both lived together for a long period of time without any wrangle. Eventhough the new generation may not have that much attachment with in-law, all ladies should understand the fact that in-law relation is courteous and mutual esteem lead to a good relation. Some of the people reading may think, being unmarried, how I know the chance of fire in an in-law relation. Yet, I strongly believe that we should get to know her. She's more than just our husband's mother and we should treat her as we would treat our mother.
    The major risk factor is that even though serial makers are telecasting these for a time-pass, knowingly or unknowingly, they are promoting the level of loathing among mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The mother-in-law is always strict, demanding and unappreciative towards her daughter-in-law. Things like respect for elders and God, honesty, kindness and above all the importance of family are not portrayed in a right manner in these serials. The story lines are totally regressive when compared to the reality. These induces a thought of fighting with in-laws in youngsters. They completely fail to consider those mother-in-laws who completely support their daughter-in-laws and also those daughter-in-laws who give due respect for her in-law. 
    In-law relations may have some sort of fire among them. But the embellishment of such realities made by the serials are unsupportable. Thus all of us should cease the false fire in those exaggerated battle grounds.
   

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