Women’s Web is saying Goodbye! Please make sure you read this important notification.
Sony's new TV serial, namely, Pehredaar Piya Ki, is gaining attention for all the wrong reasons! Here's the how, what, and why.
Sony’s new TV serial, namely, Pehredaar Piya Ki, is gaining attention for all the wrong reasons! Here’s the how, what, and why.
It’s natural that with so much TV all around us, we do get bored of the same kind of shows, serials, reality tv and talent shows. After all, in how many ways can you spin the old romances and the saas-bahu serials? And apparently in this quest for something ‘new’, Sony just went a century back for the new concept of their new show.
Update (29th Aug): This show has been pulled off air, thanks to viewers’ objections loudly expressed!
“Pehredar Piya Ki starring Swaragini actress Tejwaswi Prakash and Afaan Khan tells the story of an 18-year-old girl Diya married to a 9-year-old prince Ratan Singh, who also doubles up as his bodyguard. So if you haven’t watched the show’s cringeworthy promo of a 9-year-old boy putting sindoor in the maang of a grown-up girl whose eyes well up with tears by her little husband’s gesture, you are lucky.” says India Today.
And I have to agree with them. After women turning to houseflies and naagins pushing up the TRP on prime time Indian TV, I didn’t know there was a competition for ‘the most ridiculous’ show going on between the channels. In a country where child marriage is still ruining lives, this show condoning such a thing is toxic. And with all the background glittering with wealth, is that an indication of money trumping all other factors in a relationship?
Another video, released by Sony about the same show with its lead character flaunting her clothes, while reciting the materials used and the locations they come from like a small child in a poetry recitation, is super awkward!
Maybe there isn’t much difference between the 18-year-old and the 9-year-old, after all?
Watch!
https://youtu.be/yarm3YclRr4
New Delhi, India I like to read, write, and talk. A feminist through and through, with a soft spot for chocolate. read more...
Women's Web is an open platform that publishes a diversity of views, individual posts do not necessarily represent the platform's views and opinions at all times.
Stay updated with our Weekly Newsletter or Daily Summary - or both!
Dear Women’s Web Community Member,
You may have wondered at our being on the quieter side during the last couple of months. Thank you for your patience, and we wanted to come back to you with a detailed note on what’s been happening at our end of things.
When we first began Women’s Web, as a blog from one woman’s desk along with a few like-minded souls, little could we have imagined the heights that it would soar to. Over the years, Women’s Web has published over 20000 stories (almost all by women), empowered countless women with the ideas, community and resources to chase their dreams, employed hundreds of women in core and project-based roles, and in the process, emerged as the OG women’s community in India. It has also inspired many others to build communities of a similar nature, all enabling women (and other-underrepresented groups) in their own ways.
Please enter your email address