Text | Li Zijin
I haven't watched Indian TV dramas for a long time, and my impression of Indian dramas is still in musicals and veils. However, watching "Four more cups please" recently completely subverted my impression of Indian dramas. If it wasn't for Indian women, I would have thought I was watching an American drama .
According to the statistics of Indian TV, there is a rape every 14 minutes in India, and there are about 30,000 rape cases every year, with a growth rate of 900% in the past 30 years, and violence against women occurs every 2 minutes on average.
In the 2018 list of the 10 most dangerous countries for women, India is also "topped", with India ranking no lower than the top 4 in all six survey areas, and also in cultural traditions, sexual violence and population. Three major areas of sales ranked first.
Under such a social background, it is hard to imagine that such a large-scale drama will come from India, and I will be shocked.
At the beginning of each episode, you can also see a new slogan:
"What are you afraid of" "Long live the miniskirt" "I'm not a girl, I'm a storm of human skin"
The first shot of the film is played in the conference room where everyone is watching, although it is only a spring dream.
This TV series tells about the social realities faced by 4 urban Indian women:
Women's equality, homosexuality, single-parent families, marriage promotion...
Different from the independent women's plots we watched in the past, although the heroines of this show are also troubled by the trivialities of life, they have a unique way of decompressing.
Three years ago, they met at a "sex bar". Since then, this place has become a place for them to release pressure, and they talk about the ups and downs of life and women's private parts.
These 4 girlfriends also have their own life and work.
Damini , a journalist who founded a well-known news network, is a standard working woman. She has won the media industry award for three consecutive years. Since she was a child, she has been determined to do the most authentic reports, and it is her responsibility to expose the facts and speak out for Indian women.
Recently, however, she ran into trouble: she was sued in court for a report she wrote that exposed the bureaucracy; for the company's profit, the board re-engaged a Kochi intern who wrote entertainment news.
Always sticking to the facts and speaking for women, she feels that entertainment news is worthless. However, entertainment news has brought more benefits to the company. Seeing that she is about to be kicked out of the company she founded by the board of directors, how will she choose?
Troubled at work, her life has not been smooth sailing. In fact, she has had a strong obsessive-compulsive disorder since she was a child; she has never been short of sexual partners, but none of them can really enter her life.
Anjana , a well-known female lawyer in the industry , is also a single mother.
She had a failed marriage. Anjana's ex-husband was a small screenwriter. Before marriage, she talked sweetly to her, but after marriage, she was idle, drinking and partying with friends all day.
Anjana came home after a day's work, not only to take care of the children, but also to face a kitchen garbage made by her husband. Unable to bear this kind of life, Anjana finally chose to divorce and raise her daughter alone.
However, because she is too strict with her daughter, her daughter even prefers her ex-husband. Recently, the ex-husband has a new love, and the daughter calls her "Little Lovely Aunt". Auntie cutie always has a way to make her daughter like her more, which makes Anjana feel in danger.
Life is not smooth, and so is work. As a female lawyer, you cannot avoid discrimination at work.
When dealing with Daminie's "bureaucratic insider reporting" lawsuit, she was repeatedly interrupted by the judge because she was a woman. Faced with women and ministers, the judge unquestionably chose the minister to prevail.
Life and work are full of pressure, and with the encouragement of the other three sisters, she began to choose people on social apps. What will happen to her? I won't spoil it.
Umang, a handsome female fitness trainer, is also bisexual.
The girl she once liked became her brother's wife. Her family arranged a blind date for her, but she did not accept it, so she ran away from home and came to Mumbai to work hard. At the bar, I met 3 other girlfriends.
After coming to Mumbai, she first worked in a fitness club, but she left because she was harassed by male members.
Introduced by a friend, she became the personal trainer and underground lover of Bollywood star Samara Puka, and the two fell in love. Handsome female coach and sexy female star, the two are also a pair of very good CPs in the play, full of candy.
The last female lead: Heaty. A wealthy second generation who hates to marry , she seems to be the most carefree of the four girls.
But she also has her problems: since she was a child, her mother was strict with her, she couldn't wear clothes that her mother didn't like, she couldn't eat cupcakes, she needed to go on a diet to lose weight...
For a mother, the value of her existence is marriage.
Therefore, she was also resentful towards her mother, but the last hug was reconciliation with her mother, right?
At present, her main task is to marry herself. However, she always encounters unreliable blind date objects: a person who likes the soles of her feet, a gay who cheats on marriage...
Frustrated in life, she started performing on porn sites to gain confidence.
In the movie, my favorite is Daminie, who is a journalist. Nowadays, entertainment, gossip, celebrity scandals and other unnutritious news fill the screen. Even if Daminie, who pursues the truth, hates it, it will not change this fact.
She spoke for her fellow females, but she was eventually taught various "traditional female virtues" by her respected female predecessors.
In this era, even in India, there have been many films calling for equal rights for women, such as "Mystery Superstar", "Wrestle! Dad", "Toilet Hero" and so on.
However, the saddest thing is that the female compatriots themselves are still trapped in the "traditional female morality" and cannot extricate themselves.
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