Lashy, this is nothing new, nor is it peculiar to Indian TV or to Balaji
For what is generally rated as the greatest love story ever filmed, the Humphrey Bogart-Ingrid Bergman 1942 classic,
Casablanca, alternative endings were shot, and neither Bogart nor Bergman knew till the release which one would be retained. Finally as the WW II was still at its height then, and Bergman's character's husband was a Resistance hero, she finally went off with him. while Bogart persuaded to do so saying
We will always have Paris.Shyamala Aunty
An inside info has told us that the CVs have shot for three branches/solutions/scenarios for culmination of the body heat episode - which shall be released some time later in the form of flashbacks. This means that the CVs themselves do not know which direction to take the story in. Like many other dailies do, they're resorting to TRP tactics and audience reaction to decide the story on a day to day basis.