Shot in Miranda House (Delhi University), an upcoming web series titled Ziddi girls Has Ignited a FIRESTORMMMMMNOG STUDENTS of the college. Reason? Consider one of Delhi University’s most prestigious institutions, this series that is directed by filmmaker shonali bose and is centered around the lives of students of students at an eelite collle Ash MH – is being slammed as ‘derogatory’ and one That’s potent of tarnishing the college’s long-standing reputation.
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The outrage that has been steamed from the trailer posted, is making students claim that it feeds the thought of Creating Damaging stereotypes about womens’ colleges, Portraying them in a “SENSANTANALISED”. “I was watched the trailer with my friends and felt it has reduced us, mirandians, to a single dimension of female students who were watch porn and are almost Always Chasing Men. It’s so objectifying, “Says Jyotsana, A Final-Year Student of Ba (Hons) English, Adding,” Miranda’s Students are of the Brightest Minds of the Country. Ated to women’s empowerment, in the Past. But this shows seems to be a very superficial take on feminism and makes me question what is she trying to say or portray in the show. “
The Response to the Trailer has actually turned incendiary since the series was filmed at miranda house campus, with the permission of the administration. “The show’s leading actors, nandita das and simran, are alumnae of this very college. How could they did not intervenue to protect the legacy of his alma mater, “Questions riddhi, a first-yar student, adding,” The fact that our own alumnae wase wech a prorend Ply disappointing. We were watched them shoot in the campus, we thought it would be a great thing to see The first Plate.
Some students have also taken to social media to express their displeasure over the show’s trailer, and are accusing its creaters of distorting reality under the guise of entertainment. “Just the name ziddi girls have a negative pun to it. It is what another attempt to cash in on women’s Empowerment Narravets While Ultimately Reducing them to Commodified Clichés, “Says saba Afreen, a Student of Ba (Hons) L, Profit- Driven attempt to exploit ‘feminism’ for cheap entertainment. It’s the same tired recipe of college dramaas that are glamourized, exaggerated, and far removed from reality. But thewst part is that it reinforce the fetishisation and misreprestation of women-only spaces, especially a college like miranda house, which has been a typecast for Years Eveen AFTES STUDENS ERS SINCE Years. “
