This post is an indirect post for targeting colourism ans how fairness creams, whitening soaps and all such creams which are used to have a more glow or fair skin. I greatly agree with your Zubaida appa anecdote, I remember when she had a tv show when I was young and how she would say women should have clear skin ans what she meant was fair. The deep rooted colourism in our society has perpetuated so many issues and rather than addressing them, media houses are using it and it’s capitalistic nature.

I totally understand your perspective and yes the depiction of the female lead and male lead are questionable to say the least. The purpose of this post was to highlight how Bollywood cinema sometimes glamorises toxicity rather than criticising it. This is the harsh reality and has forced many women in creating an environment where such people like ‘Kabir Singh’ can survive.

Yes, thank you for the insight. The purpose of this post is to target social media ‘false’ advertising without making any changes in their campaign or capitalistic nature.

I’m glad that you agree with Missy being the main character and how her character arch is shown, how her character is complex and how many dimensions to her character are shown. I feel like your comment helps me realise of important not only the story of the character is important but building the character every step of the way is also essential in a tv show.

The usage of ‘psychotic love’ is quite intriguing as many believe you turn mad in love. The use of these words reminds me of the fact how some people justify his behaviour with the aspect of love. Thank you for pointing that out.

Thank you for using the word rant, honestly I feel like my post is a rant. Thank you for understanding the causal effect of problematic behaviour and how it influences our surroundings and behaviour. Unfortunately this is a distressing reality but yes there are better ways to show it and condemn it.

I agree, the end could’ve been the girl empowering herself and not being dependent on him or her leaving everything for him. I think the ending is so predictable because of the Bollywood stance of second chance and how it is embedded in its core.

I’m glad that you have pointed out Unilever and how it is not a magician reinforcing the characteristics of how these capitalistic agencies prefer their image over the actual product. Their product is not a reflection of their social media strategy.

I really admire the usage of plagarism in your heading as it sets a tone of how bollywood cinema and hollywood both not only influence each other but are some times mirror reflections. Archies and Riverdale, Harry met Sally and Harry met Sejal are the same storyline copied yet still successful, so do you think plagarism is bad even if fulfills the capitalistic nature of media?

Great blog, I believe bollywood cinema and media perpuattes associating female as sexual and objectifying women for all the wrong reasons, do you think women in bollywood movies are just secondary? We have seen women as either a romantic interest, a random inspiration, an old woman providing insights or someone primarlity for item songs. How is depiction not targeted?

I completely agree, they should target more dimensions as yes, when seasons are renewed they refocus on the same identity. All media houses use this tactic to continue to show what they know is successful but this reptition makes shows predictable and monotonous. Netflix should invest in more dimensions to the character.

So, Missy's character has been shown from the begining with a constant theme of being empowering herself. She is sarcastic and tries to fight for what she wants and in doing so combats many battles. However, her character is shown to as being constantly changing except the main theme, she seen as a cute child with a hint of sarcasm who loves her hair and evolves to her being a rebellious teen while being protective of her family.

Yes, to answer your question we nee dto first identify the role acrors play in shaping our prespectives and the media around us. Many women are consatntly influenced by social media and adverts as their favourite celebrity is endorsing it. Actors need to be mindful of the values they portray and need to seperate their own stances sometimes. I like the example of Nadia Jamil and how she distanced herself, this action can have a consequence such as the directors of the talk realising how who they associate with becomes a part of their identity as well.

Thank you for highlighting the undertones of colourism I purposely placed in my post while directly using this word. I greatly despise this word so I wanted someone to udnerstand my point without essentially using this term. Colourism itself as a word is used to display a range however in my opinon restricts the term to colour being preferred. I am gald that you have made this connection.

Thank your for your comment, and highlighting the main essence of my post. Many companies use pharses or words as a banner for inclusivity rather than actually being "inclusive". They plan media campaigns, use socials to get their ideation point across but little to nothing towards making a change.

Your point regarding "Larka Hai" is the fundamental essence of this movie, and thank you for pointing out the toxicity and how embedded this concept of gender roles is in our society. The larka hai concept is one of the targets of this post as well since the main character gets away with everything based on his gender, whereas the female lead is constantly criticized. The media portrayal of this toxicity is quite questionable, to be honest, but the least they could've done was condemn it.

I am so glad that you pointed out its effects; this was the main purpose of my post, not the movie but the repercussions of the movie. Though they portrayed the character the way it is in real life, they forgot to tell us why it is wrong or why there should be a change. Many people don't understand the influence of media. The dichotomy of the characters and reinforcement of the damsel in distress was quite triggering. Also, showing how women need a "savior" and rather than decoding it and explaining how wrong it is, they reinforced it towards the ending. Unfortunately, it is a sad reality, if the media is trying. to show us the reality and its faults the least they can do is condem what is wrong.

I totally agree with your presepctive, yes there should have been some modifications as to the character so it could be breaking steterotypes rather than the one reinforcing them. Media portyal influences everything around us, I feel like directors need to take that more into account.

This post was quite insightful and I’m glad someone is talking about how the power framework comes into play and how positionally in a household is important. The framework suggest that in a relationship one person values their position more and would assert that position over the other.