Women’s Day: Stories that celebrate women in all their complexities and power

Mar 04, 2024, 09:11 IST

Zeba Khan

As we approach International Women’s Day, we pick our favourite stories of the recent past from teleplays and TV shows in India that celebrate women who show us just how things are run in this male-dominated world. From Agnipankh to Aarya, these include some noteworthy names that you must watch.

Agnipankh

In this, matriarch Baisaab tries to rise above the impending end of the feudal system in the fifties, post India's independence.

Gudiya Ki Shaadi

This teleplay explores the social obsession with marriage, unrealistic beauty standards, and the pressure they inflict on young women like Gudiya.

Ok Tata Bye Bye

Writer, director, and actor Purva Naresh in Ok Tata Bye Bye explores notions of morality, female agency, and freedom in this thought-provoking teleplay.

Aarya

Aarya is like no other. The Sushmita Sen starrer offers a female protagonist who tackles the tragedy of her world going upside down when her husband is shot dead and she has a staggering debt to pay off with gangsters after the life of her family.

Masaba Masaba

you will find the similarity. The series not only fictionalises her personal life, her relationship with her mother Neena Gupta but also the highs and lows of her successful career.

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