I agree with you Jyoti, a series of cute Maaneet moments is just not going to do. This was the problem with the Amritsar track, after they reuinited and Dev was Maan, and it is still the problem today.
Why is the focus only on Maaneet when they are separated from each other and not functioning as a couple? It seems that to M(C)P, a track in a love story implies separating and re-uniting the lovers, rather than showing them facing struggles together. If you look at the facts, he has written two tracks Amritsar and ML. In Amritsar the focus was on Maaneet until they reuinited and now, once again, the focus was on Maaneet only until Maan accepted Geet as his wife. After that they started focusing on Devini once more with the introduction of Nano's pointless chaddi buddy.
On the other hand the one oasis in the MP desert was Barry's bankruptcy track, which I just loved! It showed Maaneet facing difficulties together, had a convincing villain who promised to shed light on both Maan, Dev and the Khurana family history. This was a plot centred around Maaneet, with the side characters feeding into it. If you remember, there was a precap, where Maan saw Dev at the same client meeting and was furious, whereas in the episode they showed a missed connection instead. I think this MU between Maan and Dev would have been a fascinating parallel track, along with Pammi being suspicious of Nano and wanting Dev to remarry, which would have brought out Dev's past.
Instead we are now getting an even more unbearable version of the Amritsar track which we were all so happy to escape. I say more unbearable because at least in Amritsar, Teji, Pammi and Beeji lent some credibility and seriousness to the track, and were entitled to boss Maaneet around because it was there house, whereas here we have only the worst bits of even that track, controlling Maaneet life in their own house!
It would even be an improvement if they just got rid of Mamaji.
I am beginning to believe the argument that they are ruining the show on purpose. Why else would they be repeating the Amritsar track, which basically halved the viewership of the show, and that too with exponential increase in its stupidity?
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