Thank you for writing this! I wish the show's creative team had done justice to the characters as you have. Your Pallavi is a person with ambition, motivated by her own life experience, which she was on the show before she became just Raghav's wife, motivated only to be with him.
I applaud that you narrated the logistics of how Siddhesh raised Pallavi, and her memories of indignities like eviction and frustrations like being unemployable. The real Pallavi knows the value of money (perhaps better than Raghav who has enough to spend extravagantly and still can never have enough), because Pallavi identifies what she needs and works to earn enough money for specific goals. Just as your young Pallavi wanted a job so that she could be self-sufficient, Pallavi in the early episodes was shown making calculated sacrifices: "I can sell this gold thread for enough money to buy new stock ... I can take time off from the shop today to earn enough money to avoid eviction." Pallavi's ideals aren't naïve; they are the result of her confidence in her abilities and knowing how to be happy.
I love that your Raghav has the same impulses as on the show, but in your story he is capable of thinking and choosing. Unlike Pallavi and Jaya who got drunk together for fun, Raghav drinks compulsively when he's lonely. Heavy drinking isn't part of Raghav's character; it's a situational obstacle that needs to be tackled and overcome for Raghav's goal of a happy family. Instead of using Raghav's drunkenness to create episodic drama like crying outside Jaya's graffiti-defaced house or saying "I love you!" outside the Deshmukh house, the show needs to do what you've done, let him want to get drunk, but gradually get in the habit of choosing to be sober and listening to his wife. I find the progression in your story more dramatically satisfying than the repetitive show.
I never wanted to see Pallavi waiting helplessly for Raghav to prove his love with his gun, or else she'll prove her love with fire. I prefer to see love on both sides by their listening to each other, as in your story. Your Pallavi loves Raghav as he revealed himself to her on the show: he treasures the music and dance that his parents gave him, and just wants to live with dignity - and that Raghav is more real to me than any Don stereotype. Pallavi would be as happy in Raghav's childhood treehouse as in a mansion ...
Has anyone written a treehouse fan fiction?