I avoid watching TV
serials but sometimes...yes cannot keep them off my sight since we need to
livein together with family. I being from Andhra watch Telugu serials in E TV,
MAA TV, Gemini TV etc.
I have following TV
serials for more than 20years trying to understand on the theme, the story
line, their motto, their message to public, their USP on which they are selling
and surviving all this time. I could not digest some revelations I got myself
after following some serials. Majority of these TV serials be it in any Indian
language, their main motto is to hook up Indian middle class woman to TV make
them soak in their tears, absorb the pain, relate the pain and imitate the pain
in their real life. Many recent news in media routes our thoughts to this
direction only as more and more women are trying to be over assertive, over emotional
and violent.
https://www.indiantelevision.com/special/y2k2/cfarspe_24.htm
The ugliest side is the
use of violence to up the anti-amongst the characters is another bothering
trend. Many serials characters be it woman or men use guns or other weapons
making an ordinary women feel that showing violent behavior is very casual
thing.
I am surprised to see
that neither “Broadcasting council of India” nor “Ministry of Communication and
Information technology” had taken any concrete steps to monitor or sensor these
kind of serials which can influence whole new generation of Indians.
I hope to see more
voices highlighting this issue.
https://www.mentalhelp.net/child-development/television-violence-content-context-and-consequences/
https://www.apa.org/action/resources/research-in-action/protect
https://www.apa.org/action/resources/research-in-action/protect
