Posted:
So ever since KZK 2 started airing, I have been going through innumberable discussions regarding how is it a love story if Anu-Prerna don't end up together or how could Prerna love someone else as well if her love for Anu was real or that there should be no Komolika or Bajaj in their lives this time around. But then we also want something relatively realistic. This got me thinking.
In real life, do all people who fall in love end up with their beloved? If, for whatever reasons, they don't end up with the person they love, should they spend the rest of their lives alone? Is there anything wrong with finding love and happiness elsewhere? In the event they find companionship and love elsewhere, does it necessarily mean that they don't or did not ever love their ex in the first place?
The basic premise of KZK 2 has been said to be that of two star crossed lovers who can never unite. So I wonder why people are even hoping for them to end up together. Even more surprising is that many of us don't want characters like Komolika or Bajaj in the narration, does that mean we'd rather see Prerna and Anurag miserable and lonely by never finding companionship and love with someone else although we know that they are not meant to end up together? This is merely my curiosity of how the human mind functions and how culture affects that thought process.
As a KZK1 viewer, I know for sure that when Ekta started off this show, she never planned it as two star-crossed lovers never ending up together. It was about these two people struggling and finally ending up together after overcoming many, many hurdles. Fortunately or unfortunately, it was Bajaj and Komolika who became the trp drawers: trp sky-rocketed when they were in the show and fell when they weren't. For me, the day Anu married Komolika was the day I, as a woman, as a human being, wrote him off the list of the moral and ethical man he claimed himself to be; the one who always did the right thing. He was a decent man, sure, in terms of his character, but I could find nothing else to recommend him. That was way before Bajaj even entered the show and I did not like it when Prerna happily agreed to get married to him after his first marriage fell apart.
I hated Prerna's decision of getting married to Bajaj and cursed Ekta for coming up with a lame excuse such as Prerna's loyalty to get her married to Bajaj and separate her from Anurag. I found Bajaj not just manipulative but an a*** for even entertaining the possibility of getting married to a woman who was almost his daughter's age. But then Anurag threw a tantrum of Prerna what have you done? How can I leave without you' on the night of her wedding with Bajaj and boy of boy, did that piss me off! Dude, you ditched this very woman and married another to gratify your mother's tantrum, tried your best to work on the marriage (I am not criticizing it, just stating it) and had your wife not been a vamp of the highest order, you would have happily stayed married with her and sired children, and you, out of all the people on earth actually have the audacity to say that you will not be able to live without her? Hypocrisy much? And not just that, he was more into blaming Prerna about wronging him than being concerned as to why she would do something like this? He was such a self-centered, self-obsessed man that he was not bothered much about why she had taken such a drastic step, married a guy the age of her father, he was only concerned about why she had done something hurting him! And then came all his tears and tantrums and depressive phase, none of which he went through when he was the one who left her.
I think not just Bajaj's personality, but also Anu's treatment of Prerna time and again made people tilt towards Prerna-Bajaj: the fact that Ronit Roy played Bajaj and Prerna looked really good with him were brownie points. This was what changed the basic story of KZK. Bajaj died,trp fell,he was brought back,trp rose,he acted like a villain,audience were outraged and trp started falling and finally the story became what it became for better or for worse. While Prerna herself was not without faults, there were times I wished she kicked both these men out of her life. But if asked to choose between the two, I would always recommend Bajaj for the role he played in Prerna's life. Anurag, in later years, proved to be a good friend to Prerna. I think it is from the direction that KZK took that Ekta got her idea of this star-crossed lovers who are never meant to unite. I don't mind the story and hope for a much better execution as the end outcome seems clear this time around. However, this time around also, the basic premise may shift as most of the serials seem to stick to nothing like what they promise in the beginning. Personally I feel that audience should be delivered what they have been promised but most of the time it feels like opening a box of chocolates only to see that my mother has stored her spices there.
In real life, do all people who fall in love end up with their beloved? If, for whatever reasons, they don't end up with the person they love, should they spend the rest of their lives alone? Is there anything wrong with finding love and happiness elsewhere? In the event they find companionship and love elsewhere, does it necessarily mean that they don't or did not ever love their ex in the first place?
The basic premise of KZK 2 has been said to be that of two star crossed lovers who can never unite. So I wonder why people are even hoping for them to end up together. Even more surprising is that many of us don't want characters like Komolika or Bajaj in the narration, does that mean we'd rather see Prerna and Anurag miserable and lonely by never finding companionship and love with someone else although we know that they are not meant to end up together? This is merely my curiosity of how the human mind functions and how culture affects that thought process.
As a KZK1 viewer, I know for sure that when Ekta started off this show, she never planned it as two star-crossed lovers never ending up together. It was about these two people struggling and finally ending up together after overcoming many, many hurdles. Fortunately or unfortunately, it was Bajaj and Komolika who became the trp drawers: trp sky-rocketed when they were in the show and fell when they weren't. For me, the day Anu married Komolika was the day I, as a woman, as a human being, wrote him off the list of the moral and ethical man he claimed himself to be; the one who always did the right thing. He was a decent man, sure, in terms of his character, but I could find nothing else to recommend him. That was way before Bajaj even entered the show and I did not like it when Prerna happily agreed to get married to him after his first marriage fell apart.
I hated Prerna's decision of getting married to Bajaj and cursed Ekta for coming up with a lame excuse such as Prerna's loyalty to get her married to Bajaj and separate her from Anurag. I found Bajaj not just manipulative but an a*** for even entertaining the possibility of getting married to a woman who was almost his daughter's age. But then Anurag threw a tantrum of Prerna what have you done? How can I leave without you' on the night of her wedding with Bajaj and boy of boy, did that piss me off! Dude, you ditched this very woman and married another to gratify your mother's tantrum, tried your best to work on the marriage (I am not criticizing it, just stating it) and had your wife not been a vamp of the highest order, you would have happily stayed married with her and sired children, and you, out of all the people on earth actually have the audacity to say that you will not be able to live without her? Hypocrisy much? And not just that, he was more into blaming Prerna about wronging him than being concerned as to why she would do something like this? He was such a self-centered, self-obsessed man that he was not bothered much about why she had taken such a drastic step, married a guy the age of her father, he was only concerned about why she had done something hurting him! And then came all his tears and tantrums and depressive phase, none of which he went through when he was the one who left her.
I think not just Bajaj's personality, but also Anu's treatment of Prerna time and again made people tilt towards Prerna-Bajaj: the fact that Ronit Roy played Bajaj and Prerna looked really good with him were brownie points. This was what changed the basic story of KZK. Bajaj died,trp fell,he was brought back,trp rose,he acted like a villain,audience were outraged and trp started falling and finally the story became what it became for better or for worse. While Prerna herself was not without faults, there were times I wished she kicked both these men out of her life. But if asked to choose between the two, I would always recommend Bajaj for the role he played in Prerna's life. Anurag, in later years, proved to be a good friend to Prerna. I think it is from the direction that KZK took that Ekta got her idea of this star-crossed lovers who are never meant to unite. I don't mind the story and hope for a much better execution as the end outcome seems clear this time around. However, this time around also, the basic premise may shift as most of the serials seem to stick to nothing like what they promise in the beginning. Personally I feel that audience should be delivered what they have been promised but most of the time it feels like opening a box of chocolates only to see that my mother has stored her spices there.
Hindi TV Shows
Current Affairs
