After watching the Ganapati and Gauri Pooja performed by our artistes, in their respective serials, last week; now, we saw a good message passed by the makers of the serial ‘Honar Suun Mi Hya Gharchi’. While Janhavi’s father  explained his illiterate and adamant wife, about preservation of environment, for getting good rains; Shree explained to his aunts, about the methods of water conservation. He seemed to be more critical about wastage of water, when it is freely available to people.

One way, it was a good lesson to learn, for those, who waste water, which is the most precious commodity, today. On one side, we find people from city wasting a lot of water , while taking shower or tub bath, on the other side, in villages facing drought, we see women walking miles and miles, to fetch water in a small container, lifted over their heads. TV serials being watched by almost all the Maharashtrian households, this is a very good way of passing a timely message. For the past few years, we saw the awareness created by many TV serials, about environment friendly Ganesha idols and it has really helped, to spread the awareness message. Now, why can’t some serials with good subjects, create awareness about corruption and greed for money, in day to day life  of people and  how it affects country’s economy?

In a serial like ‘Nanda Soukhyabhare’ we find the mother of the lead hero, just wanting to know, how much she will benefit financially, through her ‘would be’ daughter in law. In ‘Asa Saasar Surekh bai’, we find the uncle of  the lead hero, encouraging his nephew to marry a rich girl, so that he would be able to spend money, on his own daughter’s marriage. Isn’t that something strange? Why can’t he himself work hard and raise funds on his own, to meet the expenses of his daughter? Such money minded selfish attitudes of some of the prominent characters in the serials, are sending a wrong message. They keep on dragging the gimmicks of such negative characters, till the concluding part of the serial.

It is not necessary that every serial should have one strong negative character , dominating the ongoing story. It only encourages those viewers, who try to emulate them. Instead, it is better to have a total comedy subject or a detective or police investigative serial, where the people involved in all such harassment or criminal acts, are put behind the bars, in just 2 or three episodes. TV serials play a very important role in passing a social message. “As you sow, so shall you reap.”