Web series like Delhi Crime (Netflix) showed a devastating scene where a father refuses to accept his raped daughter's trauma due to "log kya kahenge" (what will people say). Conversely, Gullak (Sony LIV) offered the Santosh Mishra character—a father who is a bumbling, sweet, ordinary man who loves his sons and daughter equally, often getting scolded by the wife. In Gullak , the Baap doesn't give grand speeches; he just fixes the kitchen sink and saves money for his daughter's future. This ordinariness is revolutionary.
To understand this content trend, we look at how the depiction has changed in Bollywood and TV:
In popular media, the Baap Aur Beti narrative has been explored in various formats:
Web series like Delhi Crime (Netflix) showed a devastating scene where a father refuses to accept his raped daughter's trauma due to "log kya kahenge" (what will people say). Conversely, Gullak (Sony LIV) offered the Santosh Mishra character—a father who is a bumbling, sweet, ordinary man who loves his sons and daughter equally, often getting scolded by the wife. In Gullak , the Baap doesn't give grand speeches; he just fixes the kitchen sink and saves money for his daughter's future. This ordinariness is revolutionary.
To understand this content trend, we look at how the depiction has changed in Bollywood and TV:
In popular media, the Baap Aur Beti narrative has been explored in various formats: