Originally posted by: TeAmo_Messi
I believe that the purpose of Bajaj was to spice up the show because AnuPre was on the verge of their reunion post Komo's downfall, and they repeated the story-line of season 1 which led to the major rejection of Bajaj by the viewers.
What Ekta and the channel needed to understand is that in 2020, nobody, I repeat nobody in their sane mind would have accepted a 21-22 year old pregnant lady marrying a man in his 40s with kid/s upon being forced and blackmailed, this is wrong, it was wrong when it happened in season 1, it is still wrong, regressive and outright shameful for the writers to even think about making it romantic after a month or two of the forced marriage. I am so thankful that this track was rejected, she never loved or wanted to be with Bajaj, I mean what is the difference between Naveen and Bajaj then? Both were older than Anupre, both forced her to marry , one of them out of lust and the other one out of his non-existent love for his mute daughter, like how is any of this romantic ? After that Prerna was expected to fall in love with Bajaj and think that Basus are toxic? So dealing with a toxic mother in law is worse than living with a toxic 40 year old selfish blackmailer as a piece of trophy? So being in love with a spineless Anurag who saved her from being trafficked by Naveen, who demeaned his own reputation to save her late father's assets is worse than tolerating frustrated, old and lonely man who needs a nanny for his daughter and finds that romantic? Anurag could be spineless, but he is not a hypocrite, he did not get Prerna by forcing or blackmailing her, she fell for him because of him being flawed yet honest and selfless he has always been.
The Bajaj track did not work in this season because, it was noting new, viewers have already seen original AnuPre being separated for eternity and dying, so they were never interested in a repeat of the same regressive and sadistic pleasure of seeing Anurag suffer and Prerna blaming him wrong happening to her.
Also I personally felt that the actor's limited schedule of shooting for only a specific amount of time and hyping him for no reason also worked against the character. I was not very impressed with his performance, I guess i had high expectations due to the hype, later on everything was mediocre, be it the writing, execution, performance and of course the reception too.