You can verify the contents of this complaint since this serial is available to watch for free on the Zee5 Tamil Mobile App. The episode 928 aired on 1/21/2021 on Zee Tamil Channel, starting in minute 16:55 included dialogs and a scene that indirectly but very clearly promoted the sexual harassment of female domestic servants which I find to be very degrading to the poorer and vulnerable sections of our community. The scene was as follows (this description includes some Tamil words):
Two male characters Vadivel and Singaravel ask a female domestic help ("Silk") to tell her to not call the "sparrow man" (kuruvi karar). One of the men (I don't know who is who) threatens Silk that he will "check" her if she does not listen to their demand to which she seems to fearfully agree.
Later, when she is gone from the scene, one of the men asks the other man what this "checking" process is. To which the second man replies that every day after the domestic servants are finished with their duties, he checks them all, and particularly checks the female servants "tightly".
Perplexed, the first man asks, what "tightly checking" a servant means to which the second man (who earlier threatened Silk) responds with something like "You're a grown man, don't you know what it would mean? Now move along, you're making me shy".
After the seemingly abusive "checker" man exits the scene, the first man says to the audience, that he also ought to get paired up.
At the very least, I expected such sexual harassment promoting scene - to any woman in any section of the society - to not be promoted even "jokingly" in the future. This is a serious matter and such scenes can inadvertantly have serious repercussions and set bad examples for the people watching.
Zee TV customer support has been notified about the posted complaint.
