In kzk, we have our most progressive and human FL.

I've been reading a lot of posts regarding the content of kzk and whether it is regressive, oppressive or shows women in a bad light. So today I just wanted to pen my thoughts on the status of women as shown on this show, which I perceive as a woman, through the eyes and life of its female lead.

I have always found prerna to be a very relatable character comparatively, when you factor in the fact that she is the lead of a Ekta shown on ITV. What has endeared me the most about prerna, more than her predecessor of the same name has been her human fraility. She is not perfect, she is not shown to be a Devi in human Form, perfect and flawless, and the up holder of all that is good and right. She is human, and in that is the very embodiment of the saying "to err is human". She has her priorities: anurag first and foremost, followed by the rest of her family. This has been a point of discussion time and again but isn't this the most human of characteristics?? All of us have priorities. Relationships, people, situations, we always priorities. This is a show which was bold enough to show its female lead getting a divorce, without any hesitation or remorse. A female lead who never for a minute showed any soft corner or feelings for her ex husband and never once looked back. She was very clear on what that marriage meant to her and never once wavered from it. How many such marriages have we seen in itv, where the norm is to see a woman staying forever in a loveless marriage or learning to love a man no matter how much he may have wronged her. She is hypocritical enough to take a stand for what is right and sending Bajaj, her husband, to jail, yet she backs out and says no matter how wrong anurag is, she cannot go against him. How wonderfully, humanly, refreshingly hypocritical of her. I have not seen an Ekta TV show FL do that. In fact, I'd go a step further and say that through prerna, we are probably seeing our most forward and progressive female lead, and by extention, the most progressive show in recent memory. Progressive because it's more human. Which then brings me to this question : is the show regressive.?? Or are we simply led by our own preferences and prejudices and simply use progressive or regressive thoughts or ideas as a crutch.??

Let's look at the following instances:

Prerna, the female lead is questioned because she has always prioritized anurag over her family. She lacks a balance it is said. Doesn't respect and value all her relationships equally. Whereas the male lead, who tries to balance all his relationships is also questioned for not breaking ties with his mother or teaching her a lesson.

Prerna who values the tokens of marriage given to her by anurag with love is ridiculed. That marriage, the only one which had the man and woman with full knowledge and love accept each other is laughed at. But the same prerna who sat like a lifeless statue, chained in a bond crying for her love is is expected to value those very same tokens, and that marriage, a sham, or a resigned compromise at the very least is celebrated as something wonderful.. What then is more regressive.?

Two women fighting over a man is regressive, but expecting a woman to stay in a loveless marriage, bound by conditions isnt?

Like many, I also find something like a sautan track and 2 women fighting for sindoor and mangalsutra rights ridiculous and regressive. There's no arguments there, that cannot be justified. But there have been many instances, far too many, where kzk has made an attempt to be a far more progressive show than its being given credit for.

Disclaimer: please share all your thoughts without any mocking and bashing. This is an open request to all fandoms.

Haye finally a post on Prerna Sharma and how she is most human FL in recent times.

I am going to write a essay, will get back to this post soon.

Thanks for this post hope🤗

Hope🤗🤗🤗

I really love Prerna for these qualities of her, she is flawed and hypocrite at times, which makes her so much human compared to ITV mahanta ki murat FLs. She has her priorities aka values set in life. Believe it or not life becomes a little simpler when we have priorities and values set in life. Same is the case for Prerna. She isn’t perfect and she never set out to be perfect and yet she is imperfectly human🤗

The biggest strength of Prerna Sharma, as in EK's words, is that she is never cranky that mujhe ye sab karna padtha hai and she is never upset with the fact that noone feels sympathetic for her. As long as those she loves is safe & fine, she will be cool like a cucumber; but the moment she senses them in danger, she will be like a fiery flame. And in that process she may take some wrong decisions; yet will never blame anyone (even the one who forces her like Mohini or manipulates her like Bajaj) for taking that decision. Accepting your fate without blaming anyone, even when you realise that it was a wrong one....only those with a strong & sound mind can achieve this level of thought process and Prerna Sharma belongs to that group.

Prerna, the female lead is questioned because she has always prioritized anurag over her family. Whereas the male lead, who tries to balance all his relationships is also questioned for not breaking ties with his mother or teaching her a lesson. - Itna sach aisa openly nahin bolte Hope. 😆

Definetly. I made with peace with it...the ultimate truth..prerna anurag , komo, bajaj, moh are the most progressive and human characters ever ! 👏 their best excuse is that they are humans, to limit themselves and never use their brains. Matlab Kisi bhi tarah sudharne ki koshish na karni kisi ne

Being self-sacrificing is absolutely ok in love but having a self-harm attitude is never a progressive characteristics for me. I would never be able to understand Prerna's putting her child's life in question to get back at Komolika as being progressive.

Originally posted by: hope4u

Hello Hope.. that's really a long post and thanks for sharing your views

Disclaimer: please share all your thoughts without any mocking and bashing. This is an open request to all fandoms.

I would like start with your disclaimer. Just a small suggestion if it interests you. Could you make it individuals/fandoms in the end. Some readers like me irrespective of their preferences like to share as an individual and not represent any fandoms.. just a plain suggestion

Now as far Prerna and show being progressive and regressive is concerned which is the basis of the topic and I will try my best to stick to the topic. Also under no capacity I am making an effort to dispute with your thought, rather am sharing mine on the post. So here it goes-

I've been reading a lot of posts regarding the content of kzk and whether it is regressive, oppressive or shows women in a bad light. So today I just wanted to pen my thoughts on the status of women as shown on this show, which I perceive as a woman, through the eyes and life of its female lead.

I have always found prerna to be a very relatable character comparatively, when you factor in the fact that she is the lead of a Ekta shown on ITV. What has endeared me the most about prerna, more than her predecessor of the same name has been her human fraility. She is not perfect, she is not shown to be a Devi in human Form, perfect and flawless, and the up holder of all that is good and right. She is human, and in that is the very embodiment of the saying "to err is human". She has her priorities: anurag first and foremost, followed by the rest of her family. This has been a point of discussion time and again but isn't this the most human of characteristics??

All of us have priorities. Relationships, people, situations, we always priorities. This is a show which was bold enough to show its female lead getting a divorce, without any hesitation or remorse. A female lead who never for a minute showed any soft corner or feelings for her ex husband and never once looked back.

I agree with you here as I have never seen something like this in any othet show. But I am not sure about the the reason- CVs trying to be different or just a rush to get in new character Sonalika. We can give them the benefit of doubt because unfortunately, we'd never know if they were being progressive or just being lazy. And most of the times they have proved with their work that they are lazy.

She was very clear on what that marriage meant to her and never once wavered from it. How many such marriages have we seen in itv, where the norm is to see a woman staying forever in a loveless marriage or learning to love a man no matter how much he may have wronged her. She is hypocritical enough to take a stand for what is right and sending Bajaj, her husband, to jail, yet she backs out and says no matter how wrong anurag is, she cannot go against him. How wonderfully, humanly, refreshingly hypocritical of her. I have not seen an Ekta TV show FL do that.

Thank you for saying hers is a hypocritical character becuase she is. She has has different rules for her love than for everyone else even the ones who love her i.e. her family. I can't imagine a progressive world where every individual is hypocritical at this level. We will all be running after love and no other purpose in life. Even a basic relationship needs a balance which is missing in her character is what I feel. I had known a person who was this crazy for a person and I only had everything but sympathy for her miserable condition because she was responsible for herself. Today she is happy in her life without that person. But these are indivudual stories and don't represent everyone.

In fact, I'd go a step further and say that through prerna, we are probably seeing our most forward and progressive female lead, and by extention, the most progressive show in recent memory. Progressive because it's more human. Which then brings me to this question : is the show regressive.?? Or are we simply led by our own preferences and prejudices and simply use progressive or regressive thoughts or ideas as a crutch.??

I wish I could disagree with you with above words. We all are using our preferences and prejudices for our thoughts. With all due respect if I may say even this post is also an example of this very fact. Please don't take this otherwise because every pov shared is based on this. I don't find her more human because humans usually do have some purpose in life even with their love by their side and this chatacter has been shown devoid of such things. May be Anurag is the center of her life but we hardly get to see anything about her life. So she does look unreal to me.

Let's look at the following instances:

Prerna, the female lead is questioned because she has always prioritized anurag over her family. She lacks a balance it is said. Doesn't respect and value all her relationships equally. Whereas the male lead, who tries to balance all his relationships is also questioned for not breaking ties with his mother or teaching her a lesson.

Individuals are bound to incline to certain relations but when if we end up jeoperdising our family and make them suffer and sacrifice at every step then I personally find it problematic enough to be addressed and not covered by behind a curtain saying Hypocisy is real and humanly.

And I totally agree with you when you say Anurag shouldn't break ties with his mom, rather try and find the balance. Lets see what CVs have in their pandora box.

Prerna who values the tokens of marriage given to her by anurag with love is ridiculed. That marriage, the only one which had the man and woman with full knowledge and love accept each other is laughed at. But the same prerna who sat like a lifeless statue, chained in a bond crying for her love is is expected to value those very same tokens, and that marriage, a sham, or a resigned compromise at the very least is celebrated as something wonderful.. What then is more regressive.?

I both marriages problematic be it dhaaga shaadi or statue shadi like you've mentioned. Progressive would have been if two lovers didn't care about sindoor, duppatta etc because if love is all they need then these things should not matter at all and really don't. So why make them go through these wierd kind of marriages and that confuses the viewers as to chal kya rha hai.

In the second case- progressive and different would have been, instead of sitting like a statue, she owned her own decision of a deal marriage and stopped acting victim. Progressive would have been to go and share everything with her love and decided to fight the whole world instead of marrying a stranger to save her love. I wish she'd shown a little more trust on her love rather than making a sacrifice. That's why I found regressive.

Two women fighting over a man is regressive, but expecting a woman to stay in a loveless marriage, bound by conditions isnt?

Like many, I also find something like a sautan track and 2 women fighting for sindoor and mangalsutra rights ridiculous and regressive. There's no arguments there, that cannot be justified. But there have been many instances, far too many, where kzk has made an attempt to be a far more progressive show than its being given credit for.

Now two women fighting over a man has been beaten to death. Uske bare mein to sochna hi bekar hai coz like you very rightly said its ridiculous

😆 I thought it would be a sarcastic post...what?!

Originally posted by: AllThatCritique

😆 I thought it would be a sarcastic post...what?!

I thought some path breaking scene happened today..but then I read the update 🤣 So from now on whenever thy will use their brains I will call them regressive , if all that's mentioned here is progressive ...how dare they not act human 😆 I will reserve these words for that time ..wonder why , by this logic, komo, moh and bajaj were not given a leeway .. they r homos too..

If anurag alone is the bone of contention , then komo and moh are at par with prerna ..coz komo's universe also circles around anurag..to the level of obsession.and mohini s world also...anurag...to the level of obsession..howcome the other two arent human and first one is.😕.if one can have a tunnel vision, if being hypocrite is human,its human to be selfish and manipulative too..this way all demarcarions between right and more right and wrong and more wrong can be removed.. koi debate ki zaroorat hi nai..

Originally posted by: cassiop

The point is in the barrage of perfect non existent God complex women that is usually the norm for ITV, prerna is not one. Does that mean she is like you and me?? No not really. But she is fallible and that makes her relatable She is as close to you and me as seen in an itv female lead. And just the fact that in an Ekta Kapoor TV show, there is a lead who is far from perfect makes her endearing and progressive. In a world where we always judge women by set norms, where women, especially on TV shows are shown to be the embodiment of all that is good and right, a female lead who has her own set agendas and priorities, and her own view of right and wrong is refreshing indeed.

As for referring to individuals in a disclaimer, that's not my place. Anyone who doesn't like being referred to as a part of a Fandom, simply need not count themselves in one. 👍🏼since I've not mentioned anyone, it's moot.