With her exemplary acting skills, Sakshi Tanwar has touched our hearts many times. And, now, with Netflix’s Mai, she has once again left her audience impressed. Tanwar’s performance is also being hailed as her best on-screen performance to date.
Recently, one scene from season 1 of the show went viral on Twitter for showing the ugly reality of women in our country. The scene captures how women are expected to perform their ‘duties’ in the kitchen even while grieving the death of their child.
Life of a lot of women. pic.twitter.com/QfBqp408BQ
— Asma Azam (@AsmaAzam71) April 23, 2022
While many of us have witnessed this reality in our families for years, we are extremely happy that a show highlighting this has at least started a conversation. This scene is an ugly reminder of how we expect women in our families to carry the burden of ‘civility’ because the rest of the family members are too lazy to make a cup of tea.
Yes this is the sorry state of a women but not of men https://t.co/dkRwkkyvg1
— srikanth gutty (@CixefUwH6Rjmimb) April 25, 2022
Sad truth for which most of us will turn our eyes shut. https://t.co/gvCqCNZlHi
— senthil kumar (@daffodil2u) April 25, 2022
Serve the guests. Complete the customs. Make arrangements for people who show up to ‘share condolences’.
— dazedaurconfused (@_WeBore) April 24, 2022
The strangest part about death is that you never even get to grieve without feeling guilty. https://t.co/ZAl7Uod3An
It went wrong somewhere 😕
— Cataleya👩🏻🎓 (@catale7a) April 25, 2022
I suppose relatives and well wishers visit the mourning family to boost their morale and bring them to normalcy
So it makes perfect sense fot them to bring food and other necessary arrangements, rather than the mourning host serving them https://t.co/ciGEOMb5ML
Here us, the people of south-east, should have learnt from the west that If someone dies we should serve their families n not the other way round. But alas Only negativity is accepted https://t.co/vKs6lGxuZe
— عناب🇵🇸 (@enab_rasool_) April 24, 2022
Please don’t expect tea at a grieving home! 🥲 https://t.co/FNYr1p28lU
— Shunya se Ananth! (@zeero2Infinity) April 24, 2022
Heartbreaking. https://t.co/2TxHwzbS0H
— Dev Parekh (@DevParekh29) April 24, 2022
Absolutely despise the “funeral feast” culture! If nothing, people visiting should be bringing food for the household who lost a family member. https://t.co/e8TnzcqzI4
— Kulsoom Durrani (@Decolonized_) April 24, 2022
Soo true, it’s even more grieving that ppl aren’t acknowledging the fact. Damn… There were ppl sharing a woman with oxygen mask cooking in the kitchen as “mum’s true love”.
— karthi (@beingkarthiii) April 25, 2022
🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 https://t.co/8eEuF3nMNt
Sadly the older generation of people will never leave this tradition behind them. When someone is grieving of their loved ones dying… people will come over expecting whole load of food and tea to be served to them. 🙃 https://t.co/9QkTn8wv9w
— TheUnknown (@theunknownchi1d) April 25, 2022
Soo true, it’s even more grieving that ppl aren’t acknowledging the fact. Damn… There were ppl sharing a woman with oxygen mask cooking in the kitchen as “mum’s true love”.
— karthi (@beingkarthiii) April 25, 2022
🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 https://t.co/8eEuF3nMNt
Have seen first hand how fucked up everything is https://t.co/nMxjy0PdWV
— Suyesh (@reXs311) April 24, 2022
While there are some men going ‘Hamare yahan se sab nahi hota‘, many have come forward to share how they could relate to this ugly reality of many women! Do let us know your thoughts in the comments below.