Neha Marda in Kanpur!

Doli Armaanon Ki delivers a potent social message and setting an example for scores of women faced with similar circumstances to follow, Zee TV has initiated a countrywide series of symposiums addressing women on the subject of their basic rights in a marriage. This is an initiative to empower them and drive in a message of hope that there exists a meaningful life beyond a bad marriage. Visiting the city of Kanpur today, actor Neha Marda was joined by a panel of experts Dr.Nutan Vohra - HOD, Aacharya Narendra Dev College, Shri Atul Agarwal - the founder of the Prerna NGO, Dr. V. N. Singh - Former HOD, DBS College & Samaj Shastri, advocate Mrs. Vartika Dave and Shivendra Pandey - Advocate of Advisory & Compromise Cases in discussing the sensitive subject and addressing a congregation of women from the Jagran Group’s Sangini Club.

Neha said, “I believe we are delivering a very relevant and pertinent social message through our show Doli Armaanon Ki … The show has so far captured my character Urmi’s life after marriage – how she, like any other girl, enters the institution with hopes but sees them getting shattered with each passing day. Her husband Samrat, is a male chauvinist with some deeply regressive, sexist views on the man-woman relationship. After seeing most of her dreams as a wife fall apart, Urmi faces domestic abuse at the hands of Samrat. As if this weren’t bad enough, he even cheats on her with another woman. In treating domestic abuse and infidelity as absolute deal-breakers and standing up for herself, Urmi lays down a fine example for scores of women in our country trapped in bad marriages to emulate.” In the coming days, Zee TV will conduct symposiums on women’s empowerment and their basic rights in a marriage and showcase Urmi’s case to women across the country. 


- Dharmishtha Dagia