I watched Satyamev Jayate on Sunday at 7pm. Thanx to You Tube and one of my friend who shared the link in his Facebook. Being a fan of Aamir Khan, having watched all his movies; his ever perfectionist acting always inspires me. This is his first appearance as a television host. And his perfectionist attitude continued here too. This time he touched peoples' heart by making show that would I guess revolutionize the Indians' way of thinking especially the Urban India.
Satyamev Jayate - Truth only prevails, a very apt title to the show. What I most liked is its timing, it airs on Sunday 11am, when most of the people are at home. The first episode starts with Aamir being on the sea shore describing his thoughts and his responsibility as a citizen of India.
Todays episode was on Female Foeticide. Titled Daughters are precious: Large scale killing of girls before birth has lead to a serious gender imbalance in the Indian population, and severe social problem as a result. Starting with the description of Women who went through the tortures of Boy-only mentality family. While interviewing them on the show they described about the tortures they have to encounter while protesting to drop their girl child or even protesting for sex-testing - innumerable physical tortures by their husband, forcibly dropping six girl-child in order to give birth to a boy. Their story made the audience and even Aamir eyes tear-full. The interview was plain and simple.
The survey was well described by Aamir; in Rajasthan only today it is 775 girl for every 1000 boy, we can very well analyse the grave situation. Aamir also made the audience aware about its impact on the future. Talking about the Rajasthan, the current situation for boys is so worse that now they are not getting girl to get married. This lead to Girl Trafficking. The Girls are brought from Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, U.P. and are sold to these families. These girls then has to suffer many tortures of the family. In many cases there are 2-3 bachelors in one family and are married to single girl which we can very well imagine the situation of the girls out there.
You will be shocked to hear about the background of Female-Foeticide. It was actually started by the Government of India..!!! back in the 1970s in their Hospitals to control the ever rising population. It was decided that to control the population the birth of girl has to be slowed down. The couples were given some monetary benefits for dropping girl-child. The sex-test was first started by Government. It was expensive to test the sex of the child then but with the development of technology the sex-test became cheaper and cheaper. The doctors working in the Government Hospitals opened their own clinics to test the sex of the child. This lead to increase in the demand of the machines which eventually made the whole process and industry in itself.
The show does not end there. It also showed the sting operation of doctors that was done years back in Delhi, Rajasthan and other parts of the country by two brave reporters, which also rocked the country back then. But the interview with them on the show revealed that the situation is still the same there. No Action has been taken by the Government against the Doctors involved in the Female-Foeticide. Still the Case is pending in various Courts in India. And these reporters has to move from one court to another.
The show end with Aamir appealing the audience and citizens of the country about their opinions. Aamir promised to write to the Chief Minister of Rajasthan about the action to be taken for controlling the situation.
In this regard he asked to citizens about their opinions which they have to reply in Y or N and send it to 2965050.
Finally a song was sung O re chiraiya... the softness of the song touched the heart, mind and soul of the country.
Link to watch 1st Episode - 6th May, 2012 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vASMbEEQc
Awesome Nilay!!! Nice depiction...
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