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Vadh, a movie on Netflix starring Sanjay Mishra and Neena Gupta reflected the harsh reality of those parents whose children go abroad leaving liabilities on their parents.
I am teary eyed as I write this blog. Though I got emotional a few times while watching a lot of movies, this time there were mixed feelings: a feeling of pain as well as anger.
A few years ago, it was a trend for the children to go out of India to pursue their studies or in a hope to get a better job. Some went because they aspired to but some went because their friends were settled abroad, in simple terms “bhed chaal”. But in this bhed chaal a lot of people lost everything. Honestly, they couldn’t get up even till today.
Vadh, a movie on Netflix starring Sanjay Mishra and Neena Gupta reflected the harsh reality of those parents whose children go abroad leaving liabilities on their parents. Before I move ahead, I want to make it clear that I am talking about it in general, and not pointing at anyone individually.
Vadh is all about an old aged couple (Sanjay Mishra and Neena Gupta) who stays in Gwalior and suffer financial crisis, hardly able to meet the basic needs through tuition and their son is settled in USA with his family. The old man took a huge loan from a bank and a private lender by mortgaging their home and eventually were unable to repay it on time. Whenever they call their son for money, on the contrary he blames them for asking for money and finding excuses to take more money from him. Everyday the couple used to sleep with teary eyes.
There was a girl named Naina who used to come for tuitions, whom they used to consider like her own daughter. She was a source of happiness for them. Once, when the old man was unable to pay the interest on time, the private lender asked him to bring Naina for an hour and hence that was the moment he busted with anger and rage. He killed the lender. When his wife got to know about the same, she didn’t speak to him for a few days but later after knowing the exact reason she supported him.
To be honest, even though I had a dream of immigrating to Canada, I did take the IELTS exam too, got many degrees certified from World Education Services (WES) but I was not ready to live my life by shattering the life of my parents. I mean how selfish and thankless a person can be? I guess the last time I cried was while watching Baghban and now at the time of Vadh.
I read somewhere that the lifespan of a person decreases by almost 10 years when he/she is alone. I am not against children who go abroad for whatever reason, but don’t forget the ones who made you go there.
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Smriti Malhotra is a Delhi girl and an avid dreamer. She works at the Embassy of the Republic of Congo by profession but is a writer by passion. She began writing while at school and read more...
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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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