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Cerealgirl

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Posted: 9 years ago

#51

Originally posted by: -mina-
Also - Chashmish, Fuggy, Lady Mugambo. These are all Abhi's lenses for Pragya. We accept them because the serial encourages us to. But there can be a Pragya independent from Abhi's gaze. She's the one who interests me. By all means, they can have a love story. But she shouldn't be subsumed in it.

100% agree! These 3 personas are Abhi's constructs. They're all hardly compliments to her and do not do justice to her personality. There's an element of bullying going on in those names! Initial Pragya, to me, has been the best form of Pragya so far.

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Mina

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Posted: 9 years ago

#52

Originally posted by: Cerealgirl

100% agree! These 3 personas are Abhi's constructs. They're all hardly compliments to her and do not do justice to her personality. There's an element of bullying going on in those names! Initial Pragya, to me, has been the best form of Pragya so far.

Yup! The element of bullying, to me, is the imposition of his perspective, his definition, his frame of reference. I don't believe that Chashmish or Fuggy were natural forms of Pragya anymore than Lady Mugambo is. That being said, though initial Pragya is sort of my Platonic ideal of Pragya, it was definitely her Chashmish mode that got me hooked. How I reconcile that to myself is - Pragya decided to play along with being Chashmish. She accepted the role Abhi read her as - she had her own reasons for keeping up the natak, so being her genuine self was not important at the time.

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Mina

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Posted: 9 years ago

#53

^^^ Plus, you know, they're all pejoratives- ie, "a word or phrase that has negative connotations or that is intended to disparage or belittle." Abhi may not have meant them as insults after a certain point but that doesn't erase the origins of these names.