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| Dadisa |
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| Anandi and the Collector |
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| The Child Bride |
Balika Vadhu
So what if he is a collector, Anandi is a sarpanch. Choti
umar ki sarpanch bitiya.
The Dadisa, fondly
says to herself, after her son has admonished her for dreaming of every
man she likes as a possible grand son in law.
That is the 1001st episode of Balika Vadhu, where
the child bride Anandi, whose divorce from husband Jagiya, has come through.
The story is as much about the grand
mother, who has transformed from a rigid and superstitious woman to a forward
looking matriarch, just as it is of Anandi’s growth into an educated woman in the
rural backdrop of Jaitsar villar, presumably imaginary, in Rajasthan.
That is just the way many mothers –and grand mothers—looking
high and low for a suitable match for their daughters behave in India. No boy
is good enough. And their daughter, too good for most of the
bachelors they see.
Anyone who has tried to match-make in the Indian context
will doubtless empathise with Dadisa, and marvel at the lengths to goes to, to
woo the Collector for her Anandi!
I caught up with
this Colours channel’s path breaking serial when it was into it’s second year. I’ve
missed many episodes in between, found some boring, and some less boring. But
in all fairness, it has remained one of the good serials in our entertainment
channels. The bad are not worse than
life throws up, and the good are not so sugary that they will give us diabetes!
Anandi's story could inspire girls in rural India .
The serial comes with a statement by way of a lesson at the
end of each episode, and will serve to sensitise/educate many in the country—only
if it is aired in one or two of the the free channels bouquet of DD plus, the
dish and set top box that does not
involve a monthly payment, and comes with limited Door Darshan channels only.
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