In 2012, India accepted 100,000 rape cases, but only 3,000 people were convicted, and only 3.5% of all cases were actually convicted.
This is only the data of the cases accepted by the courts, and there are many rape cases that go unreported.
Today, India has the highest rate of rape cases in the world.
While physical rape is horrific, many more women experience emotional rape every day.
This is the case with the four women in "Four More Cups Please". They are of different ages and occupations, but they also suffer from discrimination, prejudice, and misunderstanding. It can be said that they are the epitome of Indian women.
"Four more cups please" is too bold, advanced and open, it is hard to imagine that it was shot in India.
If you want to make a "cool drama", it's really simple. You just need to let the heroine fully open, sing along the way, and reach the pinnacle of life, but such a drama is over, and it can't really explore the issue of men's and women's rights. role, and it does not resonate with female audiences.
"Four More Cups Please" is a comedy on the surface, but it is full of frustration and misfortune, like a scalpel that puts the bloody reality in front of you.
Not a cool drama, but a true portrayal of women's lives.
The play has 4 heroines, namely reporter Damini, lawyer Anjana, Uman from a small city, and Heidi from a well-off family.
That year, Daminie had just won the Fearless Journalism of the Year award, and went to the bar alone to treat herself.
Umang came to a new city for the first time, and she decided to go to a bar to release the pressure.
Anjana's husband, Warren, only knew how to watch a football game with friends and didn't care about her and her daughter at all. Anjana was so angry that she ran away from home with her daughter that night.
Hitty's favorite nanny dies, and she has to borrow wine to drown her sorrows.
The four women met unexpectedly at a bar and became good best friends ever since. They go to work during the day and meet at the bar at night to share their daily joys, sorrows, ups and downs.
Damini
Daminie is a very professional reporter who always reports the truest and most profound news. Use the pen as a weapon to fight all injustice to the end.
But she also offended a lot of people because of a report that the Minister of Transport was harassing women, but she was brought to court by the Minister in turn.
Just because she is a woman, the judge did not stand on her side at all, and without listening to the statements of Damini and Anjana, he directly ruled in favor of the minister, and asked Damini to publish an apology statement on the website and pay 1 million rupees as compensation.
Like Anjana said, if Damini was a man, the judge would never treat her with such contempt.
Not only that, but Damini's boss Uma is not on her side either.
It was Damini who founded the "Detective Network", and she is also the editor-in-chief of the detective network, but Uma hired another reporter, Ankasha, without permission.
Damini still advocates reporting social and national topics, while Ankasha is going to report gossip news.
The results are obvious, Ankasha brings a lot of traffic and revenue to the site.
Ankasha is just a newcomer, and Damini is the winner of three consecutive annual Fearless Journalism Awards, and Uma has promoted Ankasha as the new editor-in-chief simply because of the benefits she brings.
What's even more worrying is that most netizens like to watch gossip news, and they don't understand Daminie's good intentions at all.
As Feng Xiaogang said, garbage audiences make garbage movies.
It is this group of people who only care about gossip and don't care about the society that leads reporters to write entertainment gossip one after another, thus creating a vicious circle.
Write gossip news for the sake of life, or continue to write "real" news at the risk of being accused and demoted? This became a huge conundrum for Daminie.
Anjana
Damini's more difficulties stem from her career. In contrast, Anjana, as a mother, has to face the dual difficulties of her career and family.
Back then, her husband, Warren, married her with a son. Warren asked her to give birth to the child. Warren proposed to her, and Warren vowed: I will share the burden.
However, after getting married and having a daughter, Warren watched football games with his friends every day without caring about his family.
In desperation, Anjana had to divorce Valen and take her daughter Aya by herself.
The scary thing is that Anjana cares more about her daughter, but it makes her more estranged from her;
Warren was in a free-range state for his daughter, completely ignoring her, and as a result, her daughter gradually became closer to him.
Anjana and Damini are in a similar situation. Netizens love to read gossip and do not understand Damini's good intentions in writing social news;
Warren is clearly an irresponsible father, but Aya mistakenly thinks that he treats him better than his mother.
One day, Aya fell ill, but Warren was not at home. It was Anjana who was informed by Warren's girlfriend Kavia.
Anjana was drinking at a bar and drove Aya to the hospital immediately after learning about it.
When he got to the hospital, Warren slapped him, blaming Anjana, as a mother, for drinking with friends and drinking and driving. What if Aya had an accident.
He even said confidently that he originally wanted him and Anjana to be guardians together, but something like this happened, and he wanted all the guardianship:
"You are her mother!"
"You should see a doctor!"
"You are absolutely crazy!"
"Where is the Anjana I know?"
"Do you really love your child or not?"
"You're an incompetent mother."
Aya was sick, and it was Warren who was not by her side, and Anjana was the one who took her to the hospital. Warren insisted on her drinking and driving, not only scolded her, but also got all custody , without considering whether he has the ability to take good care of Aya.
What is even more terrifying is that Anjana regards Warren's girlfriend Kavia as a good friend and a best friend who can talk to her heart. Once she complained to Kavia that being a mother is too hard, and half-jokingly said: Sometimes I really wish I was just Aya's aunt, not her mother.
This is just to express the hard work of being a mother, but it has become a weapon used by Valen and Kavia to fight for custody...
Hitty
Hitty is not a career woman like Damini and Anjana, she is the daughter of a rich family, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have troubles.
She is an innocent and pure virgin, but her mother Siniha urges her to go on a blind date and get married every day.
Siniha strictly controls her diet, telling her that she can't eat this or that. Hitie will criticize her if she gains a little weight. She even found a weight loss expert to formulate a weight loss plan for her, and she can only eat ten meals. The amount and type of food eaten by one-month-old babies.
In fact, Siniha's marriage was not for her happiness, she just wanted her to marry a rich man so that she could show off to her relatives and friends.
For her own daughter, Siniha would say "If you don't get married, what value do you have".
Siniha asks her to go on a blind date all day long, and if the blind date fails, she is to blame.
Heidi once had a blind date with a homosexual, and Siniha blamed Heidi: He had always liked women before, why has he liked men since he met you?
Such words hit Hitie's self-esteem deeply and became the straw that broke the camel's back.
umang
Umang also has a tragic fate. She likes men and women, but her girlfriend Pan Qi dare not come out, and later married Umang's brother.
The hit Umang left his hometown and came to Delhi to work as a fitness coach, and met the female star Samara by accident.
She still didn't know whether she should be like Pan Qi, marry someone she doesn't like and live her life, or go after what she really wants.
Summarize
The four women in "Four More Cups Please" are either elites in the workplace, single mothers, young ladies, or LGBT people. They suffer from the problems that women all over the world have encountered, such as urging marriage, demotion, etc. harassment, discrimination...
Despite their limited ability, they still choose to resist, although the result is often thankless, but also try their best.
If it is destined to fail to beat reality, I have to give it a try.
I'd rather lose after a fight than admit defeat without a fight.
For example, Damini, she did not give in, she still disregarded the opposition to publish the most real social news, to expose the dark side of society, and to fight the dark forces to the end.
Others can take away her position, but they cannot take away her talent and wisdom, much less her courage and courage to say "no" to an unfair society.
Although she lost her job, she can confidently say: No one can replace me.
Anjana didn't go easy on her hands, and no one could take her daughter away.
And Hitty released herself completely and began to live broadcast on adult websites.
Only here will people praise her for her good figure, sexy and hot, only here will she regain her confidence, and only here will no one criticize her.
Umang's mother said she found her the perfect blind date and was very rich.
She thought that money was the perfect match, but she had no idea what U Mang liked.
Pan Qi gave in, and Umang's other two gay relatives committed suicide because "we couldn't live together, so we had to die together".
And Umang chose to muster up the courage to admit his bisexual identity and tell everyone that homosexuality is not a disease.
On the one hand, "Four Cups Please" shows the social problems of unequal status and exclusion of women everywhere, which resonates with female audiences;
On the other hand, a solution is given: only by facing difficulties and fighting with both hands can one change fate.
Of course, they won't succeed so easily, and India's countless years of patriarchal vices are unlikely to change in a day or two.
Anjana wanted to elope with her daughter, but was put in prison;
Heidi's live broadcast was discovered by relatives, who not only called her a prostitute, but also told her father.
The father said angrily: What is this? who are you?
What impresses me the most is that the father, who usually seems approachable, gentle and considerate, is angry just because his daughter is broadcasting live;
And the most vicious and selfish mother hugged Hitie.
Yes, she is also a woman, she is a past person, she has experienced everything Hitty has experienced.
Only women know women best, and only mothers know daughters best.
It is because she is usually too harsh on her daughter that her daughter will go to live broadcast to get praise from netizens.
Anger can't solve problems, only gentleness can dissolve estrangements.
Damini's story explores the contradictions between conscience and money, justice and interests, professional ethics and self-preservation, and at the same time reflects the strong, honest and noble qualities of a woman.
Anjana's experience represents the conflict between career and family. She takes care of her daughter and works hard. In the end, people say she is an unqualified mother. This is also the experience of many mothers.
Hitty's growth process is the process of women's self-awareness awakening. She has gradually become independent, independent, and free from naive, childish, and simple, never understands "sex" and becomes fond of her own body and dares to control her own body freely. It is a manifestation of maturity.
People misunderstand homosexuality. U Mang knows that she can't change everyone's thoughts by herself, but she still chooses to speak her mind. If she speaks out, everyone will not accept her, but if she doesn't speak out, she will regret it for the rest of her life like Pan Qi. .
The awareness of "Four Cups Please" is too advanced. Issues such as equal rights between men and women, freedom of speech, self-awareness, etc. have been thoroughly captured.
It shows the difficulties faced by women all over the world, and calls on women to pursue freedom, fight for their rights, and be their own masters. Bravely fighting against the patriarchal society and fighting for the status of women is the real "feminism".
The story of "Four more cups please" is not over yet, maybe there will be a second season, a third season...
Such an excellent drama, please make another 100 seasons!
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