The genre of storytelling and filming vary with the evolution of time and human and the changed human mind-sets. We in the name of modernisation have been axing certain precious cultural knots of the country. The institution of marriage seems like another tree for the axe.
A newly launched drama in an OTT platform is gathering attention for its unique story narration. But the drama “Barsatein” is also leaving a negative impression among the youth, on the institution of marriage. It is a plot of a family system, where a husband is totally cool with the wife, who has spent her entire marital life in the memory of her past love. In spite of an arrogant, prejudiced kid from a broken family being the outcome, the husband proudly speaks on his honour of having loved his wife dearly and also appreciates her feeling which is stuck with someone in the past.
Indeed, the plot might be real to certain extent like, burden of the past but the objectionable factor here seems to be the glorification of love for somebody in spite of being in an institution of marriage.
Marriage in India is highly a valued bond unlike Western countries. In major South Asian countries, the institution of marriage is regarded high. As per Indian culture and human regards to their spouse, it is never encouraged for a man or a woman to be okay with their spouse’s attraction for someone else. There is no value to the institution of marriage in such a case. And so, in the society where youths are entering in and out of relationships like shopping for clothes, let media not lay a benchmark in encouraging a broken house and insult the dignified institution of marriage.