Prerna had a choice, really?

I had posted this in one of the threads but got a spl request if i cud make it a different topic. So modifying it a bit and here it goes....

Trivalizing the blackmail, arm twisting or manipulating the marriage plot to something like giving choice is something that cannot ever be justified. Prerna was given a choice? Really? And wht if she chose the second option? Wud she ever survive then without blaming herself for anu's jail term knowing well tht he's innocent and she cud have done something. It was no choice and it cannot be downplayed.

This post is not about anurag and its not about bajaj. I have many problems with prerna's character portrayal right now but i am putting all of it aside as i post this.

Talking about choice... Bajaj loves his daughter, someone asks him to choose between his or his daughter's life. Is that even a choice? Will he ever let a bajaj in kuki's life? Two wrongs never make a right.

She may give in to her fate, but if this is so right will she ever allow anything of this sort to happen to her own child or for that matter kuki? No... Coz she knows how hurtful tht will be. She may become mrs bajaj, but a part inside her will always be dead and whenever she visits tht burial space pangs of agony will never leave. They say time heals. I say it doesnt. It only makes u accustomed or numb to tht pain. Its like when u lose a loved one, u learn to live without them, tht pain become a part of u... But never goes away. Thats what is a life of compromise. And no girl deserves that.

In future pre may be set free by anyone be it anu or bajaj but by then the shackles will never allow her to take a decision for herself. No matter whom she chooses she'll always live with a guilt. kuki ko chuna toh separation from anu and the hurt that she wud deliberately give him will gnaw her thru her life. And agar anurag ko chuna, toh she wud always feel that she took a selfish decision of choosing her happiness over a vulnerable child. She will never be free to make her choices hereforth. And thus i cant accept bajaj's reasons or apology. Some mistakes can be rectified while some are beyond repair. And unfortunately nothing can be done to undo the effects of this marriage.

Note: if anyone wishes to declare this thread a battlefield go ahead. I am entitled to my opinions and here it is about a girl who is bearing the burden of a relationship she wouldnt have chosen under normal circumstances. I empathize with that girl and say that she has been wronged.

Absolutely. ❤️ 👏 If this post had been posted a week or ten days ago, I could not have related to it coz I couldn't see that helplessness in Prerna before. But her portrayal has become better now, and especially after today's episode when she voiced out how she's battered from all ends and has nowhere to go, and after that comes your post. These two coupled together give a very painful, horrendous impression and it's really saddening.

That's how Prerna is, this time, tied and bound by things, relationships, emotions at any given time.

And I hope this doesn't become a battlefield coz whatever you are saying is absolutely true.

That said, do I think Bajaj needs to be redeemed? No. I don't know why. Maybe I have always been slightly more inclined to the negatively shaded characters, not just this serial but in general. Not the pure evil ones but the ones that are morally jaded. Do I hate him? No.

Should Prerna hate him? Most definitely. But she won't be able to downright hate him as well, coz that's how she is. Small things matter a great deal to her. She's already so close to Kuki. She's bound to break her own heart one way or another. I quoted this somewhere but there was this awesome line in another serial, people who can't stand to see others in pain, end up getting everyone else's pain. And that's so relatable in her case.

Bajaj has not trapped prerna ...bajaj never asked her to come for help to him and neither he was forcing her to take proofs. He wanted a mom for his child while she wanted her soulmate out of jail. Both fulfilled each other wish .....this was bajaj dialougue from lst season and it was so true.....prerna wanted something from bajaj and bajaj wanted something from prerna....they both got what they wanted with this deal. Bajaj didnt just brought anurag out of jail but also dropped the idea of aquiring basu's publications due to this deal. His not acquiring and leaving basu publication only allowed anurag to have that much credability that he could acquire bajaj business and made bajaj stand out of his house. Bajaj lost his own house too to get prerna for his daughter. He has done more tha he was required to. Yes he dint give importance to prerna's emotions over his daugter because his daughter mattered to him while prerna was no one to him.

I wouldn't call it a blackmail but yes, she was left with no choice.

The whole situation was in Bajaj's favour and ultimately to save Anurag, she had to sacrifice herself. After she sacrificed n married, she is inside the shackles and maryada of marraige .

She doesn't talk much to Anurag and ignores him most of the time, Because she doesn't want him to get the green signal to keep trying on her. He still does it, but atleast from herside she keeps him at arms distance.

I agree with most of what you have written. Sadly , any decision that pre takes will only further hurt her. Unless CVS decide to kill off Bajaj and then make AnuPre marry and adopt kukki, Other than that I don't see a Happy Prerna ever in future.

Prerna has to bear that to take anurag out. Thats why she said that she want to shake anurag and ask that why did he followed ronit and not that why mr bajaj put the deal. The deal helped her save anurag....if the deal was not there.....anurag would have been hanged....then also she had to live without anurag only. Anurag trapped himself in such a situation that there was no way out and as mr bajaj says, bajaj is no saint to get him out for free.

Bajaj ne Anurag Ko trap nahi Kiya tha ....Prerna bajaj k paas help magne kyu gayi ....Bajaj ne kaha tha kya ki mere paas aao ...wo khud gayi thi apni marzi se

Bajaj is purely playing with mind. He knows how innocent prerna is. He is trying to manipulate her. Ofcourse he gave her choice, anurag life or marriage. In a way, she has no choice. Now he is trying slowly move his relationship with Prerna for next step. He is trying to touch her, on the other hand he is trying to justify his action. He is trying his best to manipulate prerna. I think thats why anurag keeps on chanting soul mates.

All I can see, bajaj will try his best break anupre's love.

I hope makers give some brain to prerna to see what is white n what is black. Hope it won't be too late, that fans move on from show.

DT Note : edited out animal references to a character

It's true that bajaj didn't blackmailed her..... But Pre didn't had any choice then .....

And I agree with Hari..... Hope Pre understand his intentions

I cannot disagree. I know where you are coming from and I do find your perceptions right even from where I see it. The only thing I differ in is the point - do I think Bajaj is beyond redemption concerning to his and Prerna's relationship? I don't. I don't think that he is beyond redemption. Just... just had he married her forcefully - I could have never been able to accept him. I have seen a couple of forced marriages in ITV and I could accept none. It is not similar with Prerna and Bajaj. He is not a saint. I will never say that he is one. He was never one. He is selfish. Humans are selfish, and for what they are selfish, varies. He is selfish for his daughter. He got an opportunity to do something that could put his daughter on the path of healing and he did that. Prerna was selfish for Anurag's life so she gave in. The difference here is - the person who is suffering the most is Prerna. No matter how much I call out her for the ways she chooses, I can't have a dislike toward her. All that she has ever wanted is - happiness and well being of her loved ones. Having said that, I repeat that I don't think that he is beyond redemption rather I personally believe, he is a good fit as Prerna's partner. The man knows to trust, respect and understand her.

Originally posted by: EtherealRati

Prerna has to bear that to take anurag out. Thats why she said that she want to shake anurag and ask that why did he followed ronit and not that why mr bajaj put the deal. The deal helped her save anurag....if the deal was not there.....anurag would have been hanged....then also she had to live without anurag only. Anurag trapped himself in such a situation that there was no way out and as mr bajaj says, bajaj is no saint to get him out for free.

The way I interpret it, she just jumped from the frying pan to the fire. The problem is they didn't show the Anurag in jail sequence with the intensity with which they SHOULD have shown it, so it seems like she wasn't helpless enough. But maybe she was.

TM was trying to say, she was trapped, and she got further trapped and Bajaj is the instigator for the next trap. There again, I am not saying he should plead guilty or anything.

Before Kuki got introduced, if the marriage had only been to spite Anurag, Prerna could have hated him easily with no qualms and who knows eventually she could have gotten back to him. We don't know.

But a child got involved here, and Prerna herself has gotten chained to this relationship now. She loves the child, it's a strength if you look at it one way and a weakness from another point of view.

Yeah, Bajaj didn't ask her to love Kuki, so he can easily be cleared of all blame.

I'd only say it isn't very easy to pinpoint who's guilty or what's the guilt here but at the end, Prerna is the one who's hurt, and she isn't going to be happy anyways. Keeping aside Anurag's hurt of course.

It was Anurag's fault to get into the mess he got into.

But Bajaj taking advantage of Prerna's misery (mind you, he could have point blank refused to help her right, saying I hate the guy and I won't help), was a deal nevertheless and both of them got something out of it. But the end result was, she's turned from the devil to the deep sea and wherever she turns there's only gonna be misery.

Potentially, Bajaj could be hurting as well but this post was on Prerna so only sticking to that.