Pragya: The same jobless girl after 20 years

Honestly I'm annoyed that they showed a 20 year leap within which abhi went from retiring from being a rockstar and instead becoming a big businessman who is still involved in the music industry as a businessman, essentially becoming richer than before the leap, yet we have pragya. Still the same jobless middle class girl. Why? Why is ekta hell-bent on dis-empowering the women socially in all of her shows by merely showing them as daughters, wives and mother's but not as a career-accomplished woman? In these 20 years they could have shown pragya having becoming a top lawyer, businesswoman or something like that, yet here she is, 20 years later, still in the kitchen with no accomplishments to her name and nothing to boast of other than being sanskaari. Honestly done with this.

You are being extra ordinarily harsh on Pragya. She raised her kid on her own with no financial help from Abhi. That's no mean feat. Which means she must have had worked in the last 20 years. She said she had savings that she could transfer to Delhi when she came to Delhi.

She was working as teacher in an NGO in Hoshiarpur. Here in Delhi she had applied for a teaching job in some coaching class. Instead they have made her a cook now . It helps EK to have her FLs as housewives /sanskari bahus, she doesn't like them having a good career.

Originally posted by: davos

You are being extra ordinarily harsh on Pragya. She raised her kid on her own with no financial help from Abhi. That's no mean feat. Which means she must have had worked in the last 20 years. She said she had savings that she could transfer to Delhi when she came to Delhi.

I'm not being harsh on pragya at all. I'm being critical of ekta for portraying all her female leads as just homemakers when times have moved on where women juggle domestic duties with a career. Her raising her kid on her own with no financial help is no doubt great, but I was talking about her career, not her relationships, which was the whole point of the criticism that all ekta FL's are shown as merely sanskaari and good at maintaining relationships but doesn't try and show her FL's as having a career. There's nothing wrong in saying that they had a 20 year leap yet didn't use the leap to show her have a strong and steady career, but instead ekta maintained the same small-town and middle-class trope of the female lead with a rich ML.

Sorry that I'm sick of seeing the same thing and for hoping that ekta will take at least baby steps in showing stronger more independent female leads for her female audience to see as a good example and influence as right now all we're seeing is too many stay at home women on tv. Clearly ekta won't stop showing mahaan female leads, but she can at least show her female leads with careers.

Originally posted by: poiu123

She was working as teacher in an NGO in Hoshiarpur. Here in Delhi she had applied for a teaching job in some coaching class. Instead they have made her a cook now . It helps EK to have her FLs as housewives /sanskari bahus, she doesn't like them having a good career.

She worked as a teacher? Not much of that was shown or mentioned clearly as I've been watching since the leap started and I never picked up on this fact. Gosh, ekta could have shown pragya having at least working a good office job, maybe having even reached a management level job in a company, but nope. Here she is.... in the kitchen again.

yes pragya was shown as a teacher post leap.I was happy that she is back to her teaching job as originally she is a teacher.but I didn't like her cooking in the Mehra house like a maid.

Originally posted by: sammy17

She worked as a teacher? Not much of that was shown or mentioned clearly as I've been watching since the leap started and I never picked up on this fact. Gosh, ekta could have shown pragya having at least working a good office job, maybe having even reached a management level job in a company, but nope. Here she is.... in the kitchen again.

pragya was teacher before leap and now after leap also ekta has shown her as teacher. she din't try for different profession and being sanskari she din't made money out of it or excel in that field she believe in samajseva so was working with NGO in hoshiyar pur and also after shifting to delhi she had applied for teacher's job.

About she is in kitchen she had temporary accepted offer for sake of that landlady. But must say she is super cook that she can make food for 500 people party that too without help of anyone.

At the end conclusion is that ekta believe in mahan sansakari paropkari sacrificing female lead

Lol forum didn’t let me post my reply so much for freedom of speech

So what exactly is woman empowerment?Having a big paid job and make tons of money and being arrogant about it?Abhi is making more money more fame so is more successful?But Pragya who sticks to her principles and values and is happy with whatever money she makes ,helping community and raising a wonderful girl with amazing values and talents is not empowered?Why do we equate having sanskar to weakness.Infact its extremely hard to be a sanskari and stick your path of morals and values it’s very easy to do whatever we want.We should stop equating sanskari to weakness and start thinking sanskari as more empowered.

Originally posted by: Sanathana123

So what exactly is woman empowerment?Having a big paid job and make tons of money and being arrogant about it?Abhi is making more money more fame so is more successful?But Pragya who sticks to her principles and values and is happy with whatever money she makes ,helping community and raising a wonderful girl with amazing values and talents is not empowered?Why do we equate having sanskar to weakness.Infact its extremely hard to be a sanskari and stick your path of morals and values it’s very easy to do whatever we want.We should stop equating sanskari to weakness and start thinking sanskari as more empowered.

In modern day indian serials still only want to show women sitting at home with no careers. That is my problem with this whole sanskaari thing. Even the modern women in this show are shown without careers yet boast about being modern and high-class. It's annoying and quite frankly given they are family shows with a primarily family audience it is terrible knowing that families for years watch shows where women are portrayed as only sitting at home to cook and engage in family politics whilst being humiliated even if they are good. And sorry but when did I say women empowerment is about a woman being arrogant about her achievement or that pragya should be shown arrogant? It's called having pride in one's own achievements and capabilities. And all indian serial women are shown like pragya, such as you comment "But Pragya who sticks to her principles and values and is happy with whatever money she makes ,helping community and raising a wonderful girl with amazing values and talents is not empowered?" This is literally every indian serial woman. It's not women empowerment but lazy and regressive writing to show women conforming to traditional societal norms of not working and being a stay-at-home sanskaari type woman. When there are so many pragya's on indian tv, how is it women empowerment? It really isn't. it's a regressive and lazy portrayal of women that refuses to show how women really are nowadays.