Originally posted by: AllThatCritique
This is a mature take one I feel is deserving of a better character. In an ideal story,I would applaud something like this because your analogy reminds me of little women, north and south,sense and sensibility.
But I believe in a serial setting where a track should mean progress does this really work? A character like this would need consistency or else anyday she could and she does what it unexpected of her.
Inconsistencies of character can't be disguised as naive and young in my opinion. There is no solid voice to this character. A track is over, then you need the story to progress. Or it becomes inconsequential. The Veena track was misplaced,her feeling outta bounds when he maintained a distance feels misplaced,asking him for some time feels misplaced because nobody is learning anything from the interactions. A stagnant character is the worst thing that I happen to a novel or drama. Her absolute trust in her first love is also misplaced and inconsistent since they don't even communicate enough for that trust.
I was all for Prerna because I thought the CVs had a story but they dont. Its just a badly written character and I think everytime she believes Anurag over everyone else or makes a bad decision one can fall back on the first love theory and how maddening it is because it makes no sense. So then let's blame love. But it's high time we get some character development that moves beyond 'am a self sacrificial lamb who changes colors everyday'.