Khwateen Digest

muqawwee123 · September 14, 2012, 7:16pm

Re: Khwateen Digest

Khawateen Digest: Golden Rules

To be a heroine, you have to lose one or both of your parents at some point or another in the story, otherwise, how will your evil rishtedaar mistreat you?

If the heroine is unmarried, the bhabi is pure evil, makes her do all the household chores. Also she takes all your salary from your whatever low paid job you are doing. However, if the heroine is married, then the roles are reversed. She has to do all household chores alone, never gets any help or praise from anyone. And the kaamchor nand will not even lift a finger, but order ‘poor bhabhi’ around to fulfill her farmaishain.

Hero and heroine must have an unusual, exotic sounding name. Bonus points, if none of the readers can guess what it means or how it is pronounced!

The heroine can cook pulao, roast, shami kebaab, qorma and 2 sweet dishes all in the span of one hour! And even if they are shown as very poor, they never serve less than 7 dishes to their guests.

The hero has to a ‘amreeka palat’, or at least been to U.K. for education etc. Some lower status heroes also come from the Middle East.

Of course it is a given that in any joint family, it’s the heroine and her family who have to do all the household chores and are essentially treated like servants. While her cousins will always be very ‘modern’ and wearing stylish clothes. All the other cousins and their mothers exert all their efforts to entice the hero. But of course, it’s always our ‘seedhi saadi’ heroine, who always manages to win this Amreeka palat prince charming’s heart.

If the story is about a large joint family (and most of them are) even then it’s always easy to spot who the real hero is: the one who is most sarial, never smiles, insults all females in the household, everyone in the household is in awe of him etc. etc.

I could go on forever and ever and ever. Yes, I do read them fairly regularly, but no I don’t think they are of good qulity (from a literary point of view). What I hate most about them is how they are always advocating that ‘suffering is noble’, or that ‘men are like that and it’s always woman who has to compromise’. Yeah right:hoonh:

Were these points also form part of novels like ‘Man o Salwa’ and ‘Humsafar’, which were also published in Khwateen Digest.

Man-o- Salwan got very common name of heroine Zainab