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Let's work together to keep the conversation civil. After a huge demand from social media users, re-runs of 'Ramayana' and 'Mahabharata' have started on the small screen. But after these shows, netizens are also demanding reruns of hit Marathi TV shows and requesting makers to telecast the episodes yet again. PC -Instagram. Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj has been ruling the hearts of people in India and across the world for years.
It brought various aspects of the Maratha warrior-king's life to the fore. The serial enjoyed a loyal viewership and left a lasting impact on the audience. While Dr. Bigg Boss Marathi contestant Shivani Surve rose to fame with her Marathi show Devyani wherein she essayed the title role. Her character of a strong yet simple girl was loved by all.
She became a popular name overnight. Devyani was a daily soap about an orphan girl Devyani who has to put up with the atrocities of her marital home even as she falls in love with Ekka, her uncultured husband. Tula Pahate Re is loved by the audience for its exciting twists and turns.
As the story progressed, Subodh Bhave otherwise known as Vikrant, who had played a positive and sentimental character, turned negative. The romantic tale was fascinating due to the gigantic age contrast between the on-screen pair Isha the character played by Gayatri Datar and Vikrant Subodh Bhave. The show went off air 2 years ago.
It's about their struggle, their understanding, their maturity and above all their friendship. It's about how they became inseparable and faced every obstacle together to be madly in love with each other and ready to die for each other. The TV show presents the story of two people, Gauri and Shiv, who are neighbors of Mumbai from different cultures and different states, fall in love with each other and defy all odds to be together. The director of the show Viren Pradhan had also roped in a famous historian to ensure authenticity of the narrative.
Briefly the story of Uncha Maaza Zhoka can be narrated as follows. Madhavrao considers it as his responsibility to make the charming little Yamuna understand the importance of education. However, since his family believes that the education of women can potentially harm everyone in the family in all kinds of ways, the husband-wife duo has to struggle to take their project forward.
When Madhavrao dies, Ramabai continues his legacy and becomes a well-known social reformer herself—Ramabai Ranade. There have been many social reformers in Maharashtra in the pre-independence period, both male and female. Ranade ? Let us try to answer this question with more questions. While there was Ramabai Ranade, who followed the footsteps of her husband, and after his death, ran the Seva Sadan in Pune keeping the traditional role of women as supporters, good wives, service of others alive, there was also Pandita Ramabai who advocated self-reliance for women by vocally discarding given notions of womanhood and especially those of Hindu womanhood by converting to Christianity.
The question I raise here is — Does the story of Ramabai Ranade make better TV to cater to a society, which calls itself both progressive and traditional at the same time, as compared to a show on Pandita Ramabai? The Ranades were Chitpavan Brahmins who were known to have a huge ideological influence in politics, journalism, education, literature, medicine etc.
They were more in favour of the British rule than the rule of caste Hindus. Their patriotism was always in question, unlike that of the Ranades. A scene of her being called a whore and pelted with stones for her grit to teach girls and untouchables on the streets of 19 th century Pune, is difficult to capture on the small screen and broadcast on a prime time family slot. Similarly, it would be difficult to narrate the tale of Anandibai Joshi, the first ever woman to go to the United States to become a doctor, as her husband abused her physically, mentally, verbally, and sexually if she did not study English and get educated.
Any story, be it fictional or non-fiction when adapted to a medium like television tends to get framed in specific ways to meet the needs of the markets and advertisers. Viren Pradhan, the director of the show, says in an interview with the Marathi Daily Loksatta available on YouTube that what he wanted to depict more than the social reform was the lovable romance between Ramabai and Mahadevrao.
He adds that though it was a child marriage, no viewer of the show has ever expressed any discomfort regarding the romantic scenes. The irony here is that after the death of the character of Mahadevrao, UMZ runs only for another week, and all the work Ramabai does after his death is reduced to a couple of episodes!
I have divided my analysis of the politics of representation in UMZ into several themes and I wish to illustrate my observations with existing theories and examples from the show. There needs to be some sort of a sexual control over their bodies to ensure caste purity, and even ancient Brahmanical texts talk about these women as objects of moral panic and suspicion.
So on one hand, they are treated differently than men in terms of education, property rights, sexual liberation, etc. She is good to everybody, the British officer, the poor, the Dalit servant, etc. Before her marriage she is trained by her mother to be a good woman and a good wife.
Her mother teaches her how to perform nurturing tasks like nursing someone with the knowledge of Ayurveda that she got from her father. Most of the episodes in the first part of the series when Ramabai is played by a child actor called Tejashree Wawalkar form this as the central plot in one way or the other.
UMZ is one of the few shows which enlighten the viewers about how widows in 19 th century Maharashtra actually looked and how they were treated; they would be tonsured and they would cover their heads with the 9-yard plain red sari that they wore each and every day, without any jewellery. Intentionally or unintentionally, the show depicts what was their reality; they are kept in the house and are shown doing continuous labour, throughout, since it is also unpunctuated by childbirth Chakravarty He could also convince his father to get his sister married, even though she is younger than him.
The depiction of widows as envious characters is kind of expected. The tonsure of a widow is to ensure the social and the sexual death of her existence.
In the show, there is an episode where Durga is sent to an empty room with a barber who has come to tonsure her head and we hear screams on the screen, suggesting that she was sexually harassed by him. If there is anything that UMZ depicts truthfully it is the representation of widows and widowhood.
Spruha Joshi, the actor who plays the elder version of Ramabai, also agrees with this in an interview on a news channel ABP Majha available on YouTube. During the freedom struggle, having women and men who believed in producing and reproducing the traditional national family, was important to build a nation or do nation-work.
UMZ clearly wants to build not just the idea of the Indian nation but also of a Marathi nation. Whenever there are British characters in any episode, the Indian-ness of the Ranades, especially that of Ramabai is over-emphasised.
In one of the episodes when Rama is anxious about her ability to communicate with the British family that is going to visit them, she is surprised to know that the British women have learnt a few Marathi words, as they were also eager to communicate.
The reaction expected from the audience seems to be that of nationalistic pride and awe at how lucky and charming the Ranades were.
UMZ also shows the struggle of the Ranades, who were soft-spoken people, with their families and how they kept relationships intact and yet did what they did. This sort of a representation is a comment on all those leaders of either the past or the present who question the basic concepts of family and the nation and attempt to upset the status quo.
It signifies that such truly rebellious leaders will be rejected and conformist social reformers will always be chosen for such representations on television. The show carves a hero out of the character of Mahadevrao. All the women treat him as the benevolent ruler of the household. They, including his mother and Ramabai, ask him for permissions on some occasions and for forgiveness on others, and he grants it to them very kindly with an additional philosophical speech, performing his character as a man with not just a smart brain but also a big heart and a quest for justice.
Sometimes it also makes one question whether UMZ is about Ramabai, or if it is about Mahadevrao enabling Ramabai to actualise herself? Actress Spruha Joshi says in an interview with ABP Majha available on YouTube that Ramabai was truly lucky to have found such a supportive husband in the 19 th century. Even at the UMZ awards, women awardees kept coming on stage to thank their husbands who were supportive and without whom they would never have been able to aim high.
Brahmins were now the educated, elite, modernised representatives of a broader Hindu community. We are small people. To gauge the patterns and meanings audiences make in their minds about a show is a matter of presumptions and predictions, if one does not go and interview a set of diverse people. In this section, I would like to try and predict how such a TV adaptation will be received. The show is popular for many reasons other than it being about a historical character.
Some people love it simply because it is not a typical serial or a family drama. Goin by the clues, I would say "Krrish". Thank you. Anonymous 0. I want to become an actor? Add Your Answer Name of mahadev ranade and ramabai ranade in uncha maza zhoka? Can you help us by answering one of these related questions? We need your help! Please help us improve our content by removing questions that are essentially the same and merging them into this question.
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