What is motherhood? What is your definition of perfect motherhood? Or does it even exist? My answer is no. Well, it is a different thing that we strive hard to prove ourselves all the time to be a good or perfect mother. And this struggle makes us go crazy, sometimes even show us a real picture in a hard way that we cannot make everything right. We as mothers put many things on hold, sacrifice our desires, compromise our wishes, and still, we are not able to fit ourselves in the so-called perfect mommy frame? Why? Because motherhood is a journey. It is not a destination. This journey brings peace, trust, and love in our lives. In reality, there are many occasions we think why did we even step into this role? At times, we feel as if while practicing motherhood, we are losing our mentalhood. Well, if this resonates with your thought process, then don’t worry. You are not alone in this journey. These five moms and a father are also sailing in the same boat every day.
Meet Meira Sharma, Priety Khosla, Deeksha Shah, Namrata Dalmia, Anuja Joshi, and Akash Fernandes from the new web series “Mentalhood”, which has started on ZEE5from March 11th’2020.
What is Mentalhood:
Mentalhood is a Karishma Kapoor’s comeback series. This series tells us to embrace the motherhood because there is no right or wrong in motherhood journey.
Let’s meet the star cast:
Karishma (Meira Sharma)- “Mental Mom.” A former Miss Kanpur and now a mother of three. She is trying to set up her modern family with her workaholic husband, played by Sanjay Suri Meira Sharma starts a blog under the pen name Mentalmom, penning her day-to-day learnings as a mother. Recently, I watched Karishma’s interview, and I must say what a comeback. She truly has a charisma.
Deiksha Shah (Shruti Seth) – “Boho Mom.” Here comes my second favorite actress. Shruti Seth has played this character. She believes in gentle parenting and wants her kids to love nature.
Akash Fernandes (Dino Morea) – “Stay at home dad” to two kids. He takes pride in addressing himself as their “mother.”
Preity Khosla (Tillotama Shome)- “Pushover Mom.” Raising her two kids single-handedly as she does not get much support from her husband. She is also a victim of domestic abuse.
Namrata Dakia (Shilpa Shukla) – “Workaholic Mom.” Mother of one child. This go-getter mom believes that you don’t have to lose your identity after becoming a mom. You can be both.
Anuja Joshi (Sandhya Mridul) – “Momzilla Mom.” Mother of 2 kids. PTA chairperson in the school. She wants perfection in everything. Perfect mother, perfect kids.
Here are my final thoughts after watching the trailer of Mentalhoodand interviews:
This series is undoubtedly going to strike a chord. I have watched a couple of episodes of this series, and I found it very close to reality. I am sure you will also like it. It deals with problems mothers have to face while bringing up their kids. When we judge ourselves, when we feel lost and don’t know whatever we are doing, it is right or wrong; when we think our kids are not going to love us or they will always judge us, that’s is the time when we recollect the words it takes a village to up bring a child,” and we look for our village. Mentalhood will give you some level of comfort, seeing that we are not the only ones. We all go through the same ups and downs.
