Adding my two cents to your already wonderful post.
You are right - her selflessness towards her loved ones, her forgiving nature and her naivety may not be understandable when we look at the solutions she adopt to tackle problem at hand. But it happens because she is a girl who thinks mostly with her heart rater than her heart. Hence, she comes across as naive and even stupid to the viewers. However, Prerna as a character before the current comedy circus was a self-respecting, introspective person. She was also shown as someone who carved her own destiny despite her other flaws. Two cases in point here.
The first being Navin Babu's track. Prerna did decide to marry Navin to save her home. At the hindsight it looks like a very impulsive and silly decision and it was. However, even then she was strong - she was driven. she had a backup plan to complete her study, get a job and pay Naveen Babu's loan to eventually salvage herself out of a very distasteful situation. In addition, she never ever let the creep Navin play with her dignity and self-respect. The TRP of the Show during this track was pretty good, at least for a new show.
Next during Komolika's time she gathers the broke pieces of her heart, gathers herself and decides to fight back both with Komo and Anu rather than moping after the most callous heartbreak. Not only does she foil Komo's every plan, she also ends up exposing Komo's true face. During this track she utilized her grey cells amply and took the reins of her destiny in her own hands. True that she faced humiliations and abuses from Anurag, his family and Komolika, yet she remianed stoic and rock solid in her stance. In short the Prerna during this track showed both grit and determination.The ratings were decent and not abysmal as it is now even during this track.
We can argue that another common aspect in both the scenarios was AnuPre's partnership which was explicit in the former and implicit during the latter track. But since this is not the point of discussion of the thread, I will just leave it here.
Prerna of late has been reduced to a zombie who functions on an auto-pilot. She lets both the males in her life play mind games with her and pull her strings like she is a puppet on each of their hands. Her identity has been reduced to Bajaj's trophy wife or Anurag's soulmate or Kuki's caretaker. Does either of us identify with this FL who is letting anyone and anything navigate her life when she used to be the master of her own fate before? No we don't. Thus the disconnect.
Hence, it is high time that the Prerna takes the driving seat and steer her fate to the direction she wants. So, she needs to expose Bajaj and even tell Anurag to go to hell. She needs to do it for herself as well as her child. She needs to be whole again- mentally and emotionally. Anurag and Bajaj both can take a hike and go to hell. It should be her choice who she wants in her life and who she doesn't. A strong Prerna is the only light at the end of the tunnel to salvage the Show as we have seen in the previous tracks.
The makers, writers and directors need to make this happen soon...
Edited by bashful_moon - 6 years ago