KumKum Bhagya : Pragya's Dressing

I just wanted to say about Pragya's dressing or blouses.

I actually find her long sleeves very high fashion with those crew cut blouses of her reception and Aliya's engagement.  Point of interest is that, you have to see that Engagement blue was nicely embroidered in front with round cut in the back. So that's not the typical covered or Simplistic behanjee dressing. In the reception, as the blouse was self-colored with saree and that too the beige shade which comes under elegant coloring of Gharana styling, the covered blouse actually gives her regal look.

Infact, the Sangeet Saree is far too simple to my taste. But then it is Sangeet and it doesnt matter. Just like Mehndi dress.

Now other things we need to keep in mind. Sriti Jha (also extended into Pragya character) is very lean. Her hands are so lean that they look bony rather than round with flesh. TRP audience giving female crowd sitting in Indian living rooms wont like that lean look. A very lean hand either shows being underweight or shows vampy characteristics of weight maintaining female leads.  One needs to sympathize with their needs.

Coming to her Anarkalis of same type with diff colors. This is neither Sriti nor Pragya characteristic. No girl wears same types in diff colors. This is simply a Indian Soap heroine Costume. All soaps follow this kind of thing more or less. There was Geet...OMG...all same with diff colors so much that DD used to make fun of her own dresses.

And finally...me...why I have come to defend on dressing of the soap heroine of KKB, when I should  not be getting into these matters based on past experiences...Because, I am a saree buff. I prefer the handloom varieties, cottons and silks...not the designer ones. Yet I do study the designs...and where I do not like the wear, then I do an assessment based on the fabric used. So ultimately for me the fabric's texture and richness matters along with what exclusivity it is bringing on the table (as in over one who wears it). And I see Sriti and Pragya making an awesome representation and statement. And one should be happy, that she is going for the designer wear and not the handloom one. Infact if you see Sriti's photos, you will see her more in native varieties of Batiks, Balucheris, Sambalpuris when she dons the sarees. And the traditional varieties wont take a designer blouse like the designer ones accomodate.

Pragya's sarees at her previous two engagements, were shown of very mediocre quality. Infact, they are mediocre style. And yet Pragya looked beautiful in those color combinations. Blouses were neatly done there as the blouses where what made her elegant in those mediocre looking sarees. And now see her transformation into rich and elegant looking sarees.

Sorry did not want to offend anyone. But I wanted to rescue myself. The heroine's dressing pleases me. Its so soothing to look at her, so simple that is pleasure watching her. feel bad I dont add TRP. If I was in India, I would have watched her regularly. :)

Responded by Tia

Originally posted by -Tia-

As for as Pragya's sarees and make up go, I just wish that they dressed her up according to her education/profession. A college prof. is more likely to wear cotton, delicate embroidery, handloom and tasteful stuff than the gaudy sarees and anarkalis (I know Pragya's are still simple going by the TV soap heroine stds). Sriti looks beautiful nevertheless but I think they could add a lot more elegance to Pragya with a sophisticated yet simple taste in clothing, which still wouldn't appeal to flashy people like Tannu and Aaliyah.

That again is a compromise made for the sake of TRP audience. They are bridging the actual character requirement with what TRP audience keeps demanding. So we get a hybrid.

The blouse combination given to Pragya is deliberated to bring about the respectability and exclusivity of the character from others. She comes out strikingly different in each of her saree ensembles.They made her wear backless blouse from her family choice itself before being asked to wear what the Mehras are giving her to wear.

As far as the dressing when she actually worked, she needed to be wearing sarees (sometimes and not always); by her Arora Punjabi background, they made the character not choose gaudy colors and go for elegant pastels. The white, the yellows, the purples..all her kurtas had the cotton as base but anarkali as the style. It was still showing her personality, that the woman was taking of her personality statement. You could easily find those varieties in Tata Westend stores. :)

Then coming to marriage and being newly married with that chuda still on, from a punjabi background, she is minimally adhering to tradition to show brights, other non-cotton material with good amount of vermilion...not as much a Bihari or Bengali bride would have out on. :)

Making a statement or getting a lable is normal. For ex: when I wear sarees, the cotton ones, they say I look like an activist. And I dont mind it. because I mean business. When I wear handloom ones for occassions, my own relatives get baffled as to what I wore can be called rich of something strange. haha!! Patola comes out best minus the zari work...and that is like a dampner for people who want it easy and understandable conventional dressing. The whole point of dressing for an intellectually elevated mind is their confidence of how to drive away people from their vicinity based on their choice of dressing. Something that is not so easily likeable and yet it gives you the necessary peace of mind. Suresh's dressing is made extra wierd with his midwaist trousers. But the guy exudes so much of confidence in his face that you automatically look at him for what he is and not what he wore. And at no point, we can say that they are not paying any attention. They pay attention to the point of keeping the unwanted attention off them.