They nitpick at the waste, pat their own shoulders for an hour’s work, and Maheep freaks out at a used condom, refusing to take it out of the sand (with gloves on).
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It also annoys Neelam Kothari Soni (wife of Sameer Soni), who chastises Maheep for not checking to see if she was free (to help the environment). She groans, wishing that they could do this “at a later time”.
Bhavana Pandey (wife of Chunky Pandey, mother to Ananya Pandey), arrives in heels. When the troop arrive for a beach clean-up, it is evident that they wouldn’t be caught dead doing drudge work. To call women in their early twenties ‘children’ and to put them on a pedestal for working reeks of a privilege that knows nothing beyond the walls of posh Mumbai homes. In India, one in five children between the ages of 15 and 18 are working. To speak of female foeticide, in 2019, Uttarakhand state’s Uttarkashi district recorded zero female births for three months in 132 of its villages. Many children in India have a hard time staying alive until that age. She beams with pride over how Ananya Pandey and Shanaya are such ‘young girls’ who work, and bring home money, while many other girls of their age still operate under the “umbrella” of their parents.Īnanya and Shanaya are 22 and 21 years old respectively. To her, ‘debuts’ – like puberty – are just things that happen to everybody. The show begins with Maheep Kapoor (wife of Sanjay Kapoor, mother to Shanaya Kapoor), stressing over Shanaya’s debut at Paris’s Le Bal. The audience is gifted with the rare chance to laugh straight on the faces of hyper-privileged elites who genuinely believe that they have struggled or are struggling. In its twisted way, this show tries to do that – and falls flat into ironic comedy. In a media cycle rife with nepotism charges, one would expect to see ‘prim and proper’ women trying to assert their common-ness. The new Netflix reality show, The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives, is unsurprisingly produced by Karan Johar’s ‘Dharmatic’ Productions, and aims to indulge us with a sneak peek into Bollywood households.