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A widowed elderly woman, her daughter in law, and granddaughter - run away on to a road trip together. What follows is Sweet Kaaram Coffee.
Sweet Kaaram Coffee, a Tamil web series on Amazon Prime Video, has a simple base story. Three women from three generations, a widowed grandmother, a middle-aged mother, and a young daughter leave home overnight, on an impromptu road trip. As the story unfolds, they open up to each other and shed their inhibitions, truly understanding what they actually meant to one another.
It’s a beautiful, feel-good series and I wouldn’t wish to reveal too much. But I would definitely want to tell you why it’s novel and a must-watch for us women.
For starters, this one is something every woman, someone like you and me could relate to. These days, unfortunately, most OTT series tend to stick to the cliche, portraying independent women as foul-mouthed, career-crazy, alcohol-drinking, and cigarette-smoking creatures. Sweet Kaaram Coffee is so refreshingly different at many levels.
The grandmother is done receiving sympathy from her family, she’s fed up of being treated like an invalid, when she’s capable of taking care of herself. The daughter is cross with her boyfriend who believes she has no future in women’s cricket.
But the series belongs to the woman of the house, a daughter-in-law, wife, and mother, in pursuit of perfection. She’s the last one to agree to the trip, but the first to be accused. Of being reckless and enticing an old woman and a young girl into a journey she desperately wanted. She’s forever made to feel guilty, so much so, that she feels her husband wouldn’t care less if she was even run over by a bus. But she puts this behind her and realizes her true worth during the journey.
There is no shouting from rooftops, no preaching. It’s all so subtle, at many points I felt like real life playing out onscreen. Just how many times in a day does it happen, that your husband gaslights you, mocks your inadequacies, and passes them off as harmless humour? Our children hurt our feelings, and fail to reciprocate our love, but we prefer to overlook. Do we not age-shame women, especially widows who wish to give love another chance? A young woman’s colour and figure still overshadow her talent, don’t they?
There are little moments that highlight the importance of a little appreciation, a small compliment, and some compassion. The three women open up freely about their pasts and their sexual desires, laugh at naughty jokes, set out on little adventures, fearlessly navigate their route, and taste freedom for the first time. Most importantly, they stand up for each other. I particularly like that one instant where the mother advises the daughter, that when you are confused about what to follow, career or love, choose what would make you happy. There are no set rules for happiness, working or not, it should be one’s own decision.
Also, contrary to what most Saas-Bahu Indian melodramas show, the MIL and DIL share a realistic and cordial relationship in this one. When her son reprimands her DIL over the phone, she grabs the phone and states calmly, “Son, your wife has chosen not to be your maid anymore.”
Sweet Kaaram Coffee is full of such mild and sweet moments that carry home some important messages. About love, marriage, and parenthood. This I believe is feminism in the true sense.
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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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