I feel its the actress herself who is not being able to portray the typical Ekta heroine convincingly. The typical middle-class, virtuous (I hate that word sanskari ), judgemental, proud of her hard work, family oriented heroine of Balaji shows.
Shes pretty and all that but her expressions and dialog delivery are not really up to the mark. Of course her prejudice against Soham are also typical Balaji style "hate turns to love" track, used countless number of times in all her shows. 😆
Actually she was prejudiced against Soham from day one when she realized hes Archana's son, the same one who shot her and caused her comatose condition. An "ideal" daughter like her cannot digest the fact that a son shot his own mother. She doesnt know the history behind Soham's actions so shes prejudiced against him. He offends her sensibilities, also with his aggressiveness and illiterate behavior.
On the other hand, Soham cannot stand her snootiness, her prejudiced outlook, her judgemental outbursts, her know-it-all attitude. His male ego cannot accept that a mere girl is not afraid of the erstwhile Bisnu Lala..😆
Their tu tu main main would have been more enjoyable if Ekta had chosen an actress with more fire in her, to match Soham's devilish charms. This time her choice of actress is wrong.
Gauri looks too wishy-washy to project that kind of passionate "hatred" which will evolve into love.
I think that after Archana revives, thanks to Gauri's tireless seva, Deshmukh family, particularly Manav will be so grateful that they will bring rishta for her and Sachin. But by then Gauri would be in love with Soham and he with her...There we go again...another stupid triangle! 😆
Archana will support Soham, Manav will support Sachin ...