Originally posted by: HeartQuake
Leave and do what exactly?? She's a young woman , pretty at that . Pregnant too . She's no educational qualifications. She can't take up any job that can provide her with bare minimum sustenance, a roof above her head , food and enough clothes to cover herself , without compromising on her honor. The moment she'll leave the protection of her home , she's absolutely no safety. She'll likely get raped . That's the real security status of young pretty women alone out there , with no back up. People far more educated than her drives auto rickshaw at Kolkata. Engineering students are driving uber Ola because they've no job. M.A pass people are working as house helps. Let's get real here and smell coffee.
I bet she knows that too. She knows she can't survive on her own. Her only options are reveal the entire story to her mother and brother and beg them to take her back and then she must complete her education, get as higher education as possible and then apply for jobs. Then there remains that pregnancy complication. At this point , if she wants to break free and carve a life for herself she must get an abortion. Now is the worst possible time for her as the as the baby to be born.
It's easy to throw around words like kick butts , leave everything and everyone and live her own life. If only life were that easy.
Our next house neighbor beats his wife every single day, everyone knows about it , he's also having an affair, yet the wife ( they've no children) couldn't leave her husband's house and this hell of a life because she's nowhere else to go and she's aware that her options are between prostitution, suicide or staying at her husband's house , working hard like a maid , bearing every single torture, because she's still having at least the security of her body , and food and clothing and roof. Reality is dark, tough and bleak. Look around . So many women are bearing with so much with gritted teeth on a daily basis because they have no other respectable options.
Before calling Prerna weak , let's give her some realistic advise regarding how she can have an alternative life that she can live with dignity. Right now , she's none. Absolute none. Unless she demands money from Bajaj for her service as Kuki's care giver. But then where's the dignity in that ??
So, that's the kind of mindset this show is trying to justify here. To bottle it all up because it's an ugly world out there, just for the sake of drama. To not even have courage to fight back & always be miserable with all sort of majbooris in life, even when there are chances to escape. To just continue bear it all, only because you are a woman with vulnerabilities. To always be ready to bear it all from all sides because you have so many damn majbooris, which are nothing but stupidity of your own mind. To be torn between love & duty all the time, while none cares about you. To prioritize men who aren't likely to give 2 hoots about your existence unless it wasn't about their own needs, over parents who begged to be told the truth.
And that's what we have reduced our men too, to only be providers & protectors with their narcissistic self, devoid of any empathy or understanding of other side. To throw reminder of woman's responsibility on her face when something goes wrong about their own. To make it all about themselves. While there is a dark reality like that, then we have a show that is going miles & length to portray how there is nothing wrong with this even today while we still have to show women all sanskaari, sacrificial, submissive, torn between love & duty in her own misery, while no side is considerate enough to see it now. What exactly was Bajaj thinking when he took the decision to shift to Basu Badi. He is supposed to be a man to understand Prerna like no other, then what happened to that?
Prerna did start her own publication, which they forgot because they had to show her being a sacrificial doormat. Bajaj won a deal on her name but now her only responsibility is to babysit his child, not do anything else, while he can claim to be the provider to the family.
Prerna 2 is one pathetic character & others around her exploit it for their own purpose, including Bajaj. And that's the female lead for the present generation.
Even Prerna 1 was miles ahead with the control she had over everything.