Netflix’s Bridgerton is a perfect thing to watch when you crave a drama. Season 1 was about steamy scenes and crazy chemistry between the main characters. But season 2 is what we call a slow Indian romance’. It looks like Karan Johar directed a show and Sanjay Leela Bhansali built sets for him.
Keeping the original story, the creators have used their imagination to full swing to place a multiracial cast together in a 19th-century setup. While some of the characters are not fictional at all, it’s a period drama with no emphasis on race—definitely food for thought.
Indians don’t like British tea and won’t trade their cardamom tea for it- checked. Kangans- checked. Haldi ceremony with Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham playing in the background- checked. All these were lovely Indian touches. The dusky Sharma sisters (Indian Sharmas are usually fair-skinned) who grew up in India love opera, are brave enough to follow their hearts, one of them is proficient in horse riding and hunting, and their mother flees the country for love; which is breaking so many stereotypes right there.
Not only that, the crisis of ‘log kya kahenge’, girls being taught to ‘walk and talk’ their whole life to find a good husband and give him children, and poor men buried under the financial burden all by themselves while the ladies only cared to get themselves silk gowns and jewellery, shows the stark truth of a society which is our very foundation.
In other words, this author is wooed by the neutral representation of the show and shall expect nothing less in the future😉 (Bridgerton lovers will know).