The show uses the form of a highly charged soap, complete with dramatic music and cliff-hangers, to impart lessons on spacing between pregnancies, contraceptives, puberty, and domestic violence.Pregnant Ratna, pallu on head and bedecked in karwa chauth finery, gulps and sways. “Woh nahi aayenge,” she says in a thin voice, before her eyes roll back and she’s carried away by her mother-in-law. The moon has been out for ages, you see, and Ratna’s alcoholic husband hasn’t returned so she can break her fast, because he’s out wasting money on liquor. The doctor arrives, tells Ratna her body’s been ravaged by four closely-spaced pregnancies, and then berates her for fasting when pregnant.

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