Nice post Esha.
While I agree with you on the daadi and Harsh's character's change, I still don't understand why the CVs butchered Anant's character from being a sensible, mature, quiet kind of guy, who made sensible decisions and knew how to fight for his rights, to a gullible, immature, fickle guy. I don't think pyaar makes one pagal, pyaar doesn't make you lose your sensibilities etc. You are still you, if anything, it makes you smarter in the process of hiding your pyaar from people you don't want to know. But in Anant's case, his character took a beating during the Shagun track that was completely unjustified IMO.
Sorry Esha, I am not arguing with you or anything, but I just felt, if they had managed to keep Anant sensible all throughout then this serial would have been in a much position than it is now.
But I am super glad that they restored Anant's character to his former sensible self, and yes, I love this new daadi, but to be frank I always loved even when she was being orthodox. Harsh's character is also shaping out nicely, but I wish he won't turn all that sensible, I will miss his antics with bandariya if he does that.