The Indian society as is common knowledge is largely male dominated. Apart from a few urban pockets, rural India still goes by what the man in the family says. Television shows are supposed to depict what goes on in our society, and it has been doing so too. However, delve a bit deeper and you will find a very interesting pattern. Indian television has produced more famous mothers and mothers-in-law than fathers or fathers-in-law. A Tulsi Virani or Parvati Agarwal is far more famous than the fathers-in-law they had. Ditto for a
Baa or the ubiquitous
Dadi in any serial. She has far more impact than the
Dadajis in Indian television.
WikiNewForum.com makes an attempt to give the ’father figures’ of Indian television their due. You have read many articles on the top five daughters-in-law or mothers-in-law. But this is perhaps the first to attempt at selecting the top five fathers on Indian television!