Indian TV Show Hitler Didi Creates Controversy

By siliconindia   |   Friday, 02 December 2011, 01:26 IST
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Bangalore: The popular Indian soap opera aired on Zee TV named “Hitler Didi” stirred controversy because of its title and is under the investigation by an ‘Anti Defamation League’, a U.S. based civil rights group. The civil right group fighting anti-semitism believes that the show is endeavoring to misuse the name of Adolf Hitler, who they consider to be a villain of exceptional evil. The group asked the network’s executives to extract the word “Hitler” from the show’s title and to rename it with something that is “less offensive,” as they feel that the name Hitler should not be used in TV shows.

The group said in a letter to the network’s executives, “Let’s preserve the name ‘Hitler’ as a villain of incomparable evil and not trivialize his legacy or the Holocaust with a serial TV title.”

In this TV show “Hitler didi,” the producers have tried to demonstrate the protagonist named Indira (played by Rati Pandey), who is strict by nature and therefore, she is regarded as “Hitler Didi” in the show. The show also highlights the fact that although Indira is strict, she toils hard to fulfill the needs of her loved ones and assures that there is smile on the faces of her family members.



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