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What’s the big deal about Tribhanga that people are bothered by Kajal mouthing cuss words? Everyone suddenly seems to have woken up and taken notice!
An engaging trailer featuring some powerful female actors and a promising feminist premise encouraged me to watch Tribhanga on Netflix yesterday. I enjoyed the movie; it touched upon a sensitive subject that mothers are not always God, and that patriarchy is still pretty much a part of our so called high society.
I posted my opinion on Facebook and was met with like-minded, kind comments, but one observation that stood out amongst all of them was, the needlessness of the cuss words that Kajol’s character mouthed. In fact some other online reviews I read, happened to echo the same.
I kind of agree with that sentiment. The film industry’s idea of portraying a ‘modern, independent’ woman is often associated with drinking, smoking and most importantly, swearing. But I’m not reviewing the film here, only mentioning something I observed about our selective intolerance towards foul language.
I have been following numerous web series of late and to be honest, all of them, irrespective of their genre have been laced with expletives. Initially, I would wonder why there was no ‘beeping’ in OTT series, but then honestly, I gradually got used to it. I guess, many obscene words were being used for no particular reason but to appease the younger audience.
Recently, there was some discussion about censorship in OTT content and I was glad I wasn’t the only one who agreed. But again, the discussion was about the plot and the stories, not the adult scenes or the language. There has hardly been any concern regarding the relentless cursing and abusing; the world, the huge audience couldn’t care less.
Then, what’s the big deal about Tribhanga? Everyone suddenly seems to have woken up and taken notice. Because this time around, a woman, an Indian woman who is supposed to be docile and charitravaan, does what her male counterparts have been up to, since quite sometime?
I have always been uncomfortable around gaalis being spoken by anyone, anywhere. I’m sure there are plenty like me out there, but audience or critic reviews of some very popular OTT series hardly talked about the bad language used.
Then why has Tribhanga got them all talking? Or does it always take a woman to highlight a concealed but deep-rooted social issue?
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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