Twice it happens that his parents get alarmed with reports of him being seen with a girl which turns out to be a false alarm. There isn’t even an open family discussion with kids about their relationships. In Shirya’s character arch there was no girl from his jobless period to his employed days. But he cannot decide about his career without feeling the pressure from all sides. Yet, he is robbed off this one chance where he could have finally felt like a grown up and could have owned up the responsibility of his decision. At that given point, Shirya, is neither married nor has any immediate plans of marriage. One of the important aspect of growing up is making mistakes. Nononono….that wasn’t discussing, it was coercing until his father got favorable result out of him. Ironically, in this very story, they hail how jointly they discuss every problem of the family at home unlike others. Again, there is so much pressure on him to not quit his safer job. It’s not a very well paid one and after some period he wants to switch with one in the private sector. His limited passion, does pay him in limited way and Shirya manages to land up a job related to his favorite sport. Given the merciless competition in the only career-oriented sports of India(of that time), may be his actions are not that weird. His father is always anxious about his future and is lining up random job interviews for him by putting a word for him with his acquaintances. Shirya is passionate about cricket, but lacks discipline or determination to make his dream come true.
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She does get to participate in a beauty contest and by the end of the series work in a show business, but there is some ‘cultural’ element added to her job profile.Īnd while she managed to live abroad, get herself a boyfriend and marry him, albeit, with parental approval, and yet so much drama around that too, guess who wasn’t as fortunate? Her brother Shirya. Yes, worried parents at such times is given, but she is carrying an extra baggage of mistrust by her father. On one outing with friends, when the tour bus malfunctions, everyone’s goal is to drop Shalaka home before midnight. I also noticed how much pressure Shalaka went through whenever she wanted to do something unrelated to academic. But that too just added her already overburdened chores and eventually it turned out to be just a passing phase. There were trope episodes like she becoming self aware with makeovers and trying financial avenues. Only once the grandpa cooks food for the family and it never occurs to anybody else to repeat the gesture. And the way Shyamal has gotten used to that life, even she doesn’t expect much. Nobody wants a change until YOU are Shyamal. But instead of wanting a change, it ended up drawing a peace treaty with her situation at her expense. I must say that the series did underline unfairness. Back then that was the strongest selling point that made the series relatable to many. Today, with more awareness on unpaid domestic work a woman of the house is subjected to, it is easy to see Shyamal, representing the perfect mom, in that light. What happened was that it inadvertently exposed the normalization of some vexing issues that we need to address and introspect. And that is what prompted me to write this post.
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When I said a Marathi home, I did not mean that this series did not represent one. But I see here the glimpses of a start of the need for loud performances in scenes unlike the subtle light-hearted portrayal of Marathi homes earlier. The Marathi serials we watch today are way dumber and much worse.
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It was too autocratic a home controlled by Grandpa’s son, the man of the family. I found that many of its episodes were way more melodramatic than the weekly column. The series wasn’t quite the image I had carried for all these years.
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If only I was underwhelmed today, it would have been understandable. So I decided to watch the whole series now. Clubbing the memory of Anudini and some in between episodes that I had watched, I always had a feeling that I had missed out on much fun in the between episodes. When the series was made, actor Dilip Prabhavalkar performed a very adorable main role of the 80 year old guy in his 50s which was much acclaimed by the Marathi viewers. It was much simpler tale of life of an old guy and the daily inconsequential but light-hearted events in his family. I got to watch it very inconsistently when it was telecasting in the early 2000s.īefore the series was made, I was a regular reader of Anudini(The Diary), a Sunday newspaper column written by the veteran actor, Dilip Prabhavalkar on which this series was based. Like many, I had a happy memory of this Marathi series, Shriyut Gangadhar Tipre. Sometimes you are forced to reevaluate your views. Revisiting old movies and series that you liked before doesn’t always end up in a nostalgia trip.