Udaan has always been strong on feels and Sukor emotional feelings which have been lacking since early September. Even I've got tired of the endless confrontations and kidnapping.
This is more important at the earlier time slot because it has more housewives and they lose many younger and professional viewers. Saathiya was a family drama with lots of crying and separation, yes it had drama but it had emotions too. Even IMMJ which is a pure thriller has more emotional scenes than Udaan.
I think if they removed some of the twists and lengthened emotional scenes and some included some celebrations, the response would've been better.
Still, I think it's hard to get back into top 20 from this slot, maybe at track high point but not regularly. If the show gets 1.5-1.6 it'll be doing very well.
IMO last week was better than the previous week or this week but the emotional scenes were less.
Mind you the shows performance is roughly the same as last week if we adjust for Diwali drop, so it's good because KC week was a high point in the track and last week was the start of a new phase.
Another point to take into consideration is that the 10:30 shows and 11:00 shows in all channels didn't get affected by Diwali like earlier time slots. Also Roop had the marriage drama last week which helped them keep the same TRP.
Udaan's weakness is still the same, it needs to get close or even beat YTG and get close to IMMJ. This is a must to guarantee its long term survival. I'm not worried of other Colors shows because for any of them to replace Udaan they need to get 1.9+ TRP.