First, let's get all the nuclear points out of the way. This is not an agenda. I've never believed that you have to let down one character so you can somehow justify the other. For me, Anurag and Bajaj are like apples and oranges. So it's really not his score is 60 and his is 70 so he deserves Prerna by 10 more points or something. Neither do I belong to the school of thought that believes he's bad but he's worse so I'd go with bad. Because there's no point.
Another point. Yes I prefer Bajaj over Anurag. But individually. I just never liked Anurag much generally especially post the Naveen track. As far as Prerna is concerned, both men can go take a hike. Their 'she's mine' makes me cringe everytime they come on screen to stroke their egos and piss all over their territories.
So now those points are out of the way. Let's get this ball rolling. Because I'm genuinely trying to understand how this last week wasn't the most cringe-worthy pack of episodes this show has ever dished out. I mean of those, this every alternative week sucks but this one took the cake for me.
We had a whole week. A whole week of episodes where the female lead of this show was objectified to the point where every action and reaction on her behalf was used as point-scoring. This week wasn't about her feelings. Every scene we had of Prerna, Anurag and Bajaj dominated the narrative, using her as a prop or crutch to intensify their battles. Even the Moloy Prerna scene wasn't left for them or her alone. Even that scene was about upping the battle going on between two testosterone-fueled machos.
Why am I concentrating on Anurag here? Because Bajaj is irrelevant to this conversation. Prerna doesn't love him. She loves Anurag. Anurag the thoughtful, considerate, soft, intuitive man we were introduced to in the beginning of the show. But where are those qualities?
Anurag drove the narrative this week. For him it was a typical battle between good vs evil. Love vs...Love vs what? That is the main problem after all. From the moment she has dumped him, this has been about HIM. ONLY HIM. Every single conversation between him and Prerna is about HIM! He loves her? He cares about her? SO WHERE HAS BEEN THAT CARE WHEN IT COMES TO PUTTING HER FIRST? He told her he knows she and Bajaj don't share a marital relationship. GREAT. Anurag knows she loves him. He knows she isn't the most comfortable with Bajaj. So WHY ON EARTH hasn't the thought that she was somehow coerced and forced into this relationship crossed his mind? You know what keeps him up at night, talking to Anupam? Two things really. 1) Bajaj is far too smart. I'm gonna take him down. 2) Prerna is *mine*.
And that is it. ME. ME. ME. ME. My mother saw so many girls for me. But I choose only you. THAT IS HIS TAKEAWAY? THAT? Shouldn't he be concerned above all? Trying to solve a mystery that should have paramount place in his head? The girl I loved, the girl who still loves me, would've never done that. There's something wrong. Something so SO WRONG WITH WHAT HAPPENED. I have to know. Shouldn't he, instead of hounding Prerna and marking his territory, be soft, approachful, ask her to let him help her? He won't judge. He won't make her life miserable. He just wants to help. Shouldn't he be focusing on really finding that out?
Also first she was a golddigger and he was betting it all so he could place the highest bid for her. From then to now, not much has changed in the way he talks to her. Guilt tripping? Check. Emotional manipulation? Check? Gaslighting? Check. How can you leave ME? You love ME. Remember this and this? (again every fb is used by him to validate his own feelings.YOU BECAME *MY* LIFE.) Our fathers wanted US TOGETHER. WOW ANURAG. Such consideration for the emotional and mental trauma SHE MUST BE GOING THROUGH!
And that's not even the worst part. The worst part is that he uses ALL THAT INFORMATION. ALL THOSE REACTIONS SHE GIVES HIM so he can GO AND GLOAT TO BAJAJ! I mean how are these two men different at this stage when both want to 'possess' and 'have' Prerna. By hook or by crook? Because he jeopardized his own life so he could have her through lies and deceit.
I wish I could have seen the last week as progressive. But Prerna was done such a disservice this whole week. She was an OBJECT. Her feelings irrelevant to her and a crutch for both the males to talk their balls off. I cringed. Every single moment. And I fail to see how any of them deserve her.
I'm no fan of Prerna. I really am not. But she needs to get away from this whole jungle ASAP. Her emotional breakdown and precarious mental state is being used and abused for point scoring. And we are supposed to applaud this? THIS IS WHAT 'TRUE' LOVE IS? SOULMATES? GOD save us from such toxicity.
Also going to add my thoughts for the last episode that aired on 4th October since I did it in a reply and it deserves to be here!
I don't care how *pure* his love is. If anybody tells me the last few episodes were about *their* love I will snort so hard because I don't even know if we're watching the same shit. All he does IS OBJECTIFY HER! Emotional manipulation. Gas lighting. Guilt-tripping. So much for you come first. THEIR WHOLE CONVERSATION IN THAT KITCHEN WAS SO MUCH CRINGE! This is what love is about?
The whole conversation starts with her asking him to not touch her but he obviously does because apparently pyaar mein physical boundaries ko respect na karna is A MUST! Then she tells him to stop but he goes on about I WON'T EVER TIRE OF TELLING YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU.
- I never thought *I WILL* love someone
Then he goes back into their flashbacks and surprise surprise, every moment he cites is A BIG MOMENT ABOUT *HIM*
- I never felt like this
-The first time you made me do this. The first time you showed concern for me. Then I was sick. Then me and me and me. MY MOM HAD SO MANY GIRLS IN HER LIST. BUT YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE IN MINE. (OH MY GOD ANURAG THAT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SHIT YOU'VE EVER SAID TO ANYONE! I'm touched. Wow. )
and literally from that to what's wrong with *me* I DESERVE YOU. WHY DON'T YOU GET IT?
MAINE KYA KUCH NAHI SOCHA THA. HUMARE BAAARE MEIN. you loved me in them.
and then your father wanted us together . Oh I shouldn't have told you but durga maata wanted this I guess.
I can't even STOP CRINGING. He didn't FOR A SECOND stop to conisder her did he? If this is pure love. God save us!
Originally posted by: FleetingWishes.
OH. ONE LAST THING.
Since MOST people missed it.
The title is really a play on Anurag's own words. Because HE TIME AND AGAIN keeps saying *I DESERVE HER* and as many of you rightly pointed out the statement itself is problematic. So thank you for that.
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