Season Two -Special Episode @Starplus Show Shaurya and Anokhi Fans question the Indian Soap Stereotyping of Middle Class Girls in a Panel Discussion on Desis.LIVE Show

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The daily soaps have typecast the image of a “good Indian girl” — one who always wears Indian clothes, speaks eloquent Hindi, cooks delectable food, carries a no make-up face and is shy to the core. We do not remember viewing a daily soap where the good girl was depicted as an outspoken person whose clothes were irrelevant to her character.
When the world is bent on shattering stereotypes, these shows have done nothing but junk the minds of middle-class Indian society.
Daily soaps romanticize the silence, tears, and beseeching for the help of a good girl as if that was the only good thing to do when trapped by a baddie. The bad Indian girl, wearing a lot of make-up, high heels, and short dress, is someone whose character is not only questionable but also inveterate.
The fans of Shaurya and Anokhi Shreya, Sumi, Supriya, and Manushi get on our show to speak about what happened to the story this week, the dynamic between emotional and physical abuse, the adoptive and natural motherhood angle, and of course the devolution of women in modern India through the daily soap portrayal of a "sanskari ladki."
How does Anokhi change all of that for these girls and the modern Indian Woman?
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