Pratyusha's Anandi --An Ode To Excellence Completed G

Prologue- Gestation Manifestation And Mutation of Anandi

Gestation, Manifestation, and Mutation ---that was the character of the Anandi, the story of our Balika Vadhu!

Together we share our life story, we look for the good in others glory -that was Anandi's motto!

Balika Vadhu was a flagship venture for Colors, taken that channel to further and farther places, because of this BV! It attracted viewers, admired by a worldwide audience, later this much-acclaimed serial watched with great interest in many countries. Almost dubbed and translated into as many as 14 foreign languages world over and almost all the Indian languages, and everywhere it's TRPs were in no 1 position! First, they advertised it as a Rajasthan based Indian TV serial, but it erased all the boundaries, surpassed all the cultural barriers, people started adopting her as their own, as Anandi, Pratyusha with her head held high reached the world audience, and earned recognition, garnered an appreciation for the Indian culture and tradition. We have seen many foreigners in the BV forum who were ritualistically followed the story, attached themselves to this unknown culture because of the story of Anandi! It evoked enormous interest in their minds, to the extent that they started loving Prats as Anandi more than us and at one stage started believing that we are criticizing their own Anandi!

At the initial stages, this serial was very sensitively dealt with the plight of small girls who are unwittingly forced into marriage in the name of tradition and have to bear the repercussions for the rest of their lives because of that social evil.

Many of us are not aware of this tradition earlier because of our urban background and were wondering about this cruel custom! That's why we followed the serial with inquisitiveness.

Someone sent by God to do great things, one of the heaven's angels with no visible wings, descended into our drawing rooms to attract our attention, to mesmerize us to lead us towards this IF, to share, to crave, to believe and finally to grieve for her!

She was the definition of the friendship, greatest friend to all with her glorious persona, a protagonist!

That is the summing - up of the story of our Pratyusha as Anandi, the classic character from Balika Vadhu!

The seed was planted by child Anandi, a small sapling grabbed our attention and from then on we were not aware of the consequential adoration, it was just happened and tied all of us to the serial as well as to this IF bondings too !!

Anandi was a breath of fresh air and laughter who knows instinctively that life is for living, for loving others, for helping and defining the real meaning of compassion. As the beloved only daughter of Bhago, she has been raised in a rural village of Rajasthan to rule the hearts of millions of viewers worldwide.

She struggled a lot in her sasra because of D'sa, but still sustained there with the love of Jaggiya and others. When the little Anandi was shut in the darkroom, how we all terrified for her wails, petrified for that small kid's frantic calls for help, for that shivering little girl, how we all extended our hands in our TV rooms to hug that small girl who was nearer to our heart at that time! From there, Pratyusha carried that character towards fame with aplomb!

Later, when that budding love started blooming in the adolescent hearts of the Balika Vadhu and Var, when it blossomed, when it lured us all towards dreaming, how many smiles slipped from our lips irrespective of our age at that time??!! It was a beautiful recollection period for many, I watched silently the slipping smiles of my Mom and Dadi Ji!

Still remember, how the young lovers struggled to have their first kiss, their conjugal bliss, when it started, when it ended, no one had an idea, it was a flow, we swayed with her romantic feelings, we cried for her tears, fears, never-ending sufferings, --how can we forget her longing for studies, her longing for freedom, her never-ending tirade towards social injustice, towards widows, fellow Balika Vadhus, her fight against blind beliefs, social injustice -what a great character it was how effortlessly played by Pratyusha??!! Where and why we lost her ??

Pratyusha's huge popularity among ordinary viewers like me and great art critics like many acknowledged her as the foremost character in the contemporary Indian TV industry! This character is not merely geographically oriented, but an expression of a contemporary woman's outcry of her soul descended into our drawing rooms as Anandi! Her character went through irony and paradox, leads the viewer from the visible to invisible! Many tears escaped from the cusp of our eyelids for her expressions in the sorrowful occasions in those days.

When she was standing behind that closed door in her room, knowing that Jaggiya was in the hug of Gowri in the next room while enjoying their SR, on that day in my Anandi's eyes I have seen a tormented wife's pain, a tortured chick's silent wail, a crushed tender flower's muted voice, all the seas were not enough to store the tears we all shed that night, throughout the day with a frown on the face, with a fit of uncontrollable anger how agonized we were in those days, is it not because of Prat's excellent portrayal of that character ?!

As she goes on an enormous journey, many of us were quite protective too, shared an unexplainable attachment with her, as my favorite character she is a part that's going to stay with me forever.

It was quite an emotional bonding I shared with my Anandi, though illusory, it was so real to me, and to many like me because of the beautiful presence of Pratyusha as Anandi in this serial!

As an adolescent Anandi Pratyusha started her career, she faced many hardships in her acting career, she crossed all hurdles and paved the way for the betterment of her acting career. When she lost Jagdish to Gowri and left there as a rejected wife, dejected woman, gathered her wits, engaged herself in improving the lives of her village people, as Anandi she struggled a lot, she educated herself first, then started a school for the village girls, upskill them, in that journey met her soulmate. The emergence of the great Romantic Pair of the Millennium Shiv & Anandi!!

At that stage, people were too eager to share their feelings, they descended to IF, started expressing their feelings in their language, others were too keen to know what they are saying, we didn't want to miss a small quiver of a fan's heart in those days, for that, there emerged the translators! They were impatient to wait to see the episode on the internet, so, asked for WU, again translation for them in their language, many more were active in that process, it was a gala affair, everyone was in a festive mood in those days because of her excellent performance as Anandi! Devoted followers, dedicated Fan groups, and consequent star wars.

Every group started dreaming in their own tradition, Anandi got many names, but still, their soul belonged to the actress Prats who played the character Anandi, unity in diversity! Many great writers emerged, given different names to her in their stories, started dreaming for her in their own enchanting way!

Many praiseworthy threads for discussions, at that time, a new entrant used to feel like a child in a toy shop, left there flabbergasted with exhilarating happiness, that is me, who was very eager to read all the OS, FF, SS, with childish glee! Many writers were hankering to write something on Pratyusha's portrayal of Anandi in the IF in those days. How wonderful those days were! There was a goal to reach, a sort of fulfillment for every beautiful expression!

Alas, where we lost our Anandi?

These are the compilation of my OSs I 've written for those forums when she was acting in those serials.