Definition of hero?!!

Lovely post, PP.

Will have to respectfully disagree PP :) I think that viewing Anurag and Prerna through the lens of 'gender stereotype' is a shallow approach of assessing things.

Originally posted by: jasw

Lovely post, PP.

I think both are heroes in their own scope. Prerna has taken this decision to marry Naveen Babu to bail out her family from the impending loan and house mortgage problem which is a noble deed. She is a college student and would not be able to earn so much as to repay the loan. She wanted to take loan from bank but her bhabhi takes away her brother's papers. She doesn't know the true colors of Naveen Babu, for her it is just the sacrifice of her idealistic love story, by getting married to an aged person for the sake of his loved ones.

Anurag who does not get into anybody's matter is doing everything down to snooping his own uncle for Prerna's sake. He is not bothered that Naveen Babu is very dear to his mother, for whom he can do anything. His care for Prerna is much more than his need to appear as a goody goody boy in front of his Mom.

Originally posted by: KumbhkarnKiNani

Will have to respectfully disagree PP :) I think that viewing Anurag and Prerna through the lens of 'gender stereotype' is a shallow approach of assessing things.

Firstly, if the writers want us to relate even 1% with Prerna and even the Sharma family, they need to be given some substance as characters. It's been 2 months, and I'm sorry if this hurts anyone (no such intention) but the Sharma family are nothing but a non-existent bunch of people in this show. When it comes to Prerna and her family, there's NO depth, NO characterisation, NO family bonding, absolutely NOTHING. A bunch of characters sketched for the sole purpose of attending never-ending functions/festivities. That's what they are. Similarly, it's pretty obvious that people won't relate with a FL who's been reduced to a mere arm-candy for the ML (borrowing the term from my friend Anya 😉😳). It's not about gender AT ALL. It's about individuality. Prerna lacks that, hence she's getting brickbats, and rightfully so. Prerna can be immature and impulsive, but she's educated.

If the roles were reversed, i.e Anurag had taken a decision that defied logic and rationale at all levels, people would have criticised him as well.

Regarding the idea of heroes, I don't believe in it. There are no heroes, we are all common, flawed individuals and that's how I like to view It. That's what I expect to see on-screen as well. Praise a character for his/her good decisions and criticise them if they behave foolishly. It's that simple and objective in my opinion. The writers of this show obviously don't follow this principle/idea.

Have more to add but can't do it, owing to time constraints. Will try to add more later :)

I hope I didn't offend anyone, no such intention :)

Originally posted by: Push-pull

Thanks for writing in detail on your intriguing perspective.. Good thoughts put forth👏.

My post is related to the original idea of Prerna taking the step to get married to Navvu..

Agree on the Sharmas not given enough scope.. I'm just wondering if the writers' have completely stopped focusing on anyone from the Sharma's even trying anything after the initial few scenes with Prerna for purposely giving the focus on Anurag to do that job.. That started happening when the wholee idea of Prerna choosing the option to marry Navin was downright rejected and that's where my question pops up not with anything that happened after that. And it is for the same reason there are not enough space given for Prerna to even have doubtss on Navin because that will mean she has to focus on Navvvuvuvu making this about Prerna-Navin along with the dishum dishum in parallel for Anurag-Navin. 😉.d

Just wondering what is the message the writers' are taking from the audience? 😕us

Originally posted by: Three.Broomstic

@bold-I have a slightly different opinion. Yes people didn't like pree agreeing to marry Navin. But where in the world did they reject the idea of her having doubts on him. Trying to fight him back would have been welcomed. Infact it was her battle to fight not Anurag's. Reducing Prerna to glorify Anurag is the worst thing that is happening.

Yeaaa I agree the makers faced a big backlash of sorts when they showed Prerna simply accepting the proposal. But that is a sure shot indication people wanted, or should I just say want, to see Prerna fight Naveen back.

It maymsound harsh but one of the major reasons Anurag Naveen track is working is because hes fighting it. Imagine Anurag simply accepting everything Naveen does. Do you think that would have been accepted? Ofcourse not, the reason why Naveen Prerna track didn't work is because audience is smart these days and two wrongs (blackmailing and accepting blackmail) don't make a right.

Makers would do well to analyze why a track doesn't work instead of reducing the lead to a show piece.

Ps. I'm no hater, just a disappoint viewer

Originally posted by: KumbhkarnKiNani

Will have to respectfully disagree PP :) I think that viewing Anurag and Prerna through the lens of 'gender stereotype' is a shallow approach of assessing things.

Firstly, if the writers want us to relate even 1% with Prerna and even the Sharma family, they need to be given some substance as characters. It's been 2 months, and I'm sorry if this hurts anyone (no such intention) but the Sharma family are nothing but a non-existent bunch of people in this show. When it comes to Prerna and her family, there's NO depth, NO characterisation, NO family bonding, absolutely NOTHING. A bunch of characters sketched for the sole purpose of attending never-ending functions/festivities. That's what they are. Similarly, it's pretty obvious that people won't relate with a FL who's been reduced to a mere arm-candy for the ML (borrowing the term from my friend Anya 😉😳). It's not about gender AT ALL. It's about individuality. Prerna lacks that, hence she's getting brickbats, and rightfully so. Prerna can be immature and impulsive, but she's educated.

If the roles were reversed, i.e Anurag had taken a decision that defied logic and rationale at all levels, people would have criticised him as well.

Regarding the idea of heroes, I don't believe in it. There are no heroes, we are all common, flawed individuals and that's how I like to view It. That's what I expect to see on-screen as well. Praise a character for his/her good decisions and criticise them if they behave foolishly. It's that simple and objective in my opinion. The writers of this show obviously don't follow this principle/idea.

Have more to add but can't do it, owing to time constraints. Will try to add more later :)

I hope I didn't offend anyone, no such intention :)

Originally posted by: moniloveasya

i m not hater this just what i feel.i think writter want to show anupre as equal in initial epi they showed this but parths anuraag got so much praise from the frist epi & ericas prerna not get that much praise.

that why writer choose this path & make parths anuraag so powerfull.

but well at the end its anuraag prerna story in one track anu is powerfull & another track pre is powerfull

in some track both r powerfull😳

Loved this post.

This is the point I was trying to make in a post I created called the glorification of Anurag.

I may have gone a step further in saying that the narrative of the serial further reinforces the manner in which Anurag is portrayed as a hero and Prerna as silly. And this narrative is picked up the audience.

She protects the Durga idol but the scenes after that ignore this and focus on him rescuing the chunari and her. Why?

He constantly putting her reputation as risk by dancing with her even though he will be the first to admit that he does not believe in love. She is called stupid for being impulsive when it come to her family and he is heroic.

She is a middle class girl who is shown to work hard at night to help her moms business and he is a rich boy who ignores the rudeness his mom to her and her family.

I actually like the characters of Anurag and prerna - equally - which is to say both have good and bad in them. What i hate is this idolisation of Anurag.

I think the writers were developing both characters well but they have lost track in the last couple of weeks in over working the Anurag angle.

I even find some of the comments to your post mind boggling because the reinforce the fact society and even we women will call the same thing done by a man and a woman by completely different names because we hold men and women to different standards.