Srikanth Ramaswamy

Bollywood Jih@di run is almost over, so now Television run has started, as plan B. Television serials are mostly watched by women, especially housewives - due to their emotional and dramatic content. Men generally avoid watching such melodramas. Therefore the likes of Ekta Kapoor decided to sow the seeds of Love Jih@d directly in the living rooms of Hindu households. Listed below are some TV serials, their lead actors (almost always a Muzlim guy) and their character names. ▪︎ Serial 1 - Diya Aur Baati Hum. Lead character name : Suraj. Actor : Anas Rashid. ▪︎ Serial 2 - Saath Nibhaana Saathiya. Lead character name : Aham Modi. Actor: Mohammad Nazim. ▪︎ Serial 3 - Navya. Lead character name : Anant. Actor : Shaheer Sheikh. ▪︎ Serial 4 - Pavitra Rishta. Lead character name : Digvijay Kirloskar. Actor : Naved Aslam. ▪︎ Serial 5 - Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai? Lead character 1 name : Naksh. Actor : Shehzad Shaikh. Lead character 2 name : Akhilesh. Actor : Ali Hassan. Lead character 3 name : Kartik. Actor : Mohsin Khan. ▪︎ Serial 6 - Yeh Hai Chahatein. Lead character name : Rudra Khurana. Actor : Abrar Qazi. ▪︎ Upcoming Serial 7 - Hero. Lead character name : Not yet revealed. Actor : Shoaib Ibrahim (Dipika Kakar's husband). The interesting thing worth noting here is that the female lead actors in all these serials are always Hindu girls. It's not as if there is a dearth of good-looking, talented Hindu male actors in the TV industry - but it looks as if they are deliberately being ignored, and the roles given to Muzlim men. In the past, popular TV serials used to have Hindu male lead actors such as Varun Badola, Ram Kapoor, Ronit Roy, Sushant Singh Rajput, Siddharth Shukla etc. Muzlim actors were few and far in between. So this current domination by Muzlim actors is deliberate and not organic. All these popular serials are set against Hindu backdrop, but the lead male actor is invariably a Muzlim guy. This serves an insidious double purpose. First, it exposes the actresses to Love Jih@d. Second, it creates a false perception among the female audience that only Muzlim men are good-looking and talented. Almost all Hindu TV actresses are in the trap of Love Jih@d. One TV starlet Tunisha Sharma already committed suicide in the make-up room of her boyfriεnd and co-actor Sheezan Khan. Her mother filed a complaint against Khan that he sεxually exploited her daughter and then dumped her, after which he was arrested. But due to lack of evidence, he was later released. It seems to me that all Star channels - whether Star Gold, Star Utsav or Star Plus - are actively promoting Love Jih@d, through their line-up of family dramas, romantic dramas, comedies, reality shows and crime shows. These serials have a direct impact on the daughters, sisters and daughter-in-laws in your home.