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I have been watching this show on and off, off whenever the tracks were super-lame and on as and when there was some good story-line, galti se hi sahi. The brothers bonding were a plus. Eventually that storyline got fizzled out for whatever reasons. With a spin-off and never-out-of wedding-preparations for Shivay, multiple tracks were opened and none found a logical end any time.
Anyways, with the merger that was predictable ever since it split, it becomes really taxing now to follow this "SOUP of storylines for one full hour. It became just easier to watch the show online, as it was easier to skip scenes that weren't interesting. With this merger, I did give a try to watch the show on TV. And the one thing that struck me was the fact that I really missed the character of Saumya today.
Her character had interactions with all members of this family. She sang a song for Shivay Bhaiyya at hospital; she was the muh-boli behen to Omkara. She hit off instantly with Anika Didi. She was the big Shivay-Anika shipper pretty early. She was the one shown to be excited and disappointed when they thought Shivay was gonna propose to Anika and instead announced his wedding to Tia. It was shown that she was the one who picked Anika's clothes from her house on Dadi's request after the forced wedding fiasco. She was having a unique bond with Sahil too; he was supposedly in "asli pyaar' with Saumya. One of the best scenes between a grown up Saumya and the young Sahil was the one where he dreams of her with the lovely song from Om Shanti Om in the background. Even though it ws a separately shot scene, there was this unique connect. She was the one who brought him for the pag phere. She was part of the gang, bonded well with Mallika too. They had developed meaningful interactions between Saumya and each of the other characters.
Her banter with Rudra was cheerful, youthful, funny, innocent and beautiful, what with all her "According to a survey by this university...Such a lively, jovial and interesting personality Saumya was. Why they had to chuck off her character is thoroughly groundless. One can relate to a character who's been around for the first 250 plus episodes.
It's very strange that they'd expect the audience to accept the new girl against Rudra. Leenesh's comic ting is excellent. And it's sad that one has to skip his scenes with the new lead. Rudra now looks like an infatuated teenager. I personally don't see the chemistry building.
Saumya seemed career-oriented. Becoming a Oberoi bahu would mean to be sitting at home and molly-coddling her "pati as well as assisting in yet another of Shivay bhaiyya's wedding preparations. I'd want to believe that Saumya was lucky to have escaped this Oberoi house. Oh Btw, Saumya went to Australia for higher studies. Does that mean Rudra has failed his exams and is still attending college to complete his arrears.
Nehalakshmi Iyer...miss her as Saumya. She definitely is a good actor, pretty convincing in whatever range of emotions were given to her to be enacted. Her voice modulation was good. Wish Neha finds some real good work.
Shiv Shakti
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
