Serial actress durga wedding serial#

Picking up a fight, Jaanu ensured that the arrogant woman not only apologised but also paid the old man for his medical expenses. All it takes is a whiff of fresh air to bring out the tigers in them.ДЄranmanai KiliвЂ™s heroine Jaanu would suffer innumerable abuses at home silently without any retaliation, yet on the streets she wouldnвЂ™t stand by as a poor old man is hit by an arrogant woman in a car. Several heroines in Tamil serials seem to incurably suffer from that syndrome. The Veetla Eli Veliyila Puli syndrome: In the 1991 film Veetla Eli Veliyila Puli (A mouse in the house, but aВ tiger outside) Janakaraj is a henpecked husband and yet at office, he is seen as a terrorising boss. She calls him sir, sleeps in the kitchen, and continues to wait for his acceptance, at his beck and call. In Aranmanai Kili, Jaanu is forced to marry Arjun вЂ“ the physically disabled son of her fatherвЂ™s employer Meenakshi. Throughout their relationship, Parvathi calls him Periaiah (senior master). In Sembaruthi, Aadhi falls in love the domestic worker Parvathi. Yet Semba continues to call Karthik Chinnaiya (junior master). In Raja Rani, hero Karthik is forced to get married to the domestic worker Semba and after some ice-breaker episodes, the couple fall in love. Perpetuating hierarchies: Serials encourage liberal use of degrading terms like Velaikkari (to refer to a domestic worker) even if the domestic worker has graduated to playing heroine. In Priyamanaval (Sun TV), the drama continues after the wedding вЂ“ bride SelviвЂ™s family comes to know that groom KumarвЂ™s brother faked horoscopes to get them married, and the couple continue to live separately. In Kanmani (Sun TV), the heroineвЂ™s wedding is stopped twice вЂ“ both times after some drama. In the hugely popular Sembaruthi (Zee Tamil), the wedding again happened amid drama, with the hero tying the knot to the domestic worker he is in love with, hoodwinking his mother. Not that other channels lag behind with this trope. In most cases, including Nenjam Marappathillai (Vijay TV), Raja Rani (Vijay TV), Aranmanai Kili (Vijay TV), the hero and the heroine get married forced by circumstances. And sometimes, the drama continues even after the wedding. Weddings cannot happen without some drama: Sometimes, they donвЂ™t happen despite the drama. And then there are patterns вЂ“ some of which travel across channels. Perhaps they have gone from bad to worse.

Over two decades since Tamil serials started capturing the imagination of the middle classes, little or nothing has changed. Ever since Tamil channels started airing serials, portrayal of women has always vacillated between two extremes вЂ“ either an epitome of sacrifice, or the personification of evil.

Serial actress durga wedding serial#

Tamil serial terrain is not all that unfamiliar to someone like me.