Oh, how I hate these Saas, Bahu serials!! I aint much of a serial person - never had enuff patience to watch those prolonged dramas with high glycerine quotient - I am more of the reality show person, and specifically, watch those towards the fag end when there are only couple of contestants left.

But there was indeed a new dimension that ‘Yash Raj Films’ brought in when it came up with TV series - there were roughly about 3 of them launched, one was taken off-air when the TRPs did not live upto expectations! One of the series caught my eye from the teaser promotions itself - ‘Mahi Way’. The chubby actress is a bundle of talent, infact the whole cast was so impressive. There have been innumerable ‘loser guys’ potrayed in Indian Idiot box, but for the first time, they defined the ‘girl with a low self-esteem’ in a society with presumptuous notions about marriage (especially of the girl).

The series ran for roughly 15-20 episodes, I did miss couple of ‘em, but the recap that they provide at the start of the episodes more than made up for it. The girl is pestered by her mother to ’settle down’ (read marry) within 6 months. In a desperate attempt, she flings herself (not literally, considering her weight!!) at every guy she meets. Finally, when the tall, handsome, rich ‘hero’ (actually, there isn’t any hero in the series - I think ‘Mahi’ buys, eats and wipes her mouth with the cake here - pun intended) - the man of her dreams, falls for her, she falls out of love with him. And walks off her marriage stating that she ain’t ready for commitment now! The series ends in a fast food joint where she is gorging on her burger, nuggets et. al., and reminiscing that she has come a long way - from the fat, insecure, ‘I-hate-the-way-I-look’ girl to the one that loves her now confident, demure self all this with her weighty issuess still in the same place!

Although the whole series was broadly in a lighter vein, it did drive a very important point. There is a lot of pressure from the society, the neighbour who has never asked about you when you were ill, when you won accolades, suddenly jumps with interest in your future - ‘aap ne abhi tak beti ki shaadi nahi ki?’. Why do you bother!?! It’s may not be that one is not ready for it, it is also about meeting the right person - right may be unachievable, atleast an ‘ok’ human being is not too much to ask for - what say?!

Oh! what a way to live life without these inhibitions! ‘My way or no way’ - not many of us get to live life like that!

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