There seems to be a dearth of love stories in cinema and television all over the world so whenever there is a new show or film that promises to satiate that thirst of the viewers, they start queuing up from the get-go. The recently concluded season of Bridgerton – which seems to be a polite nod to the story of Cinderella – was one of the most beautiful love stories that the show has presented so far, only to prove that the most acceptable conflict in love stories for today’s audience, isn’t existential, but the one that is dictated by the society. In India, we know this as the age old ‘log kya kahenge’ (people will say something or the other) syndrome but that’s not to say that the rest of the world doesn’t have various versions of this.
