Yaar,I really feel bad for those girls who've gone and even now as we speak might be going through whatever they've shown in this serial.And yup,I guess this was the direction the serial was always meant to take.
Yes such marriages do take place. For this show the storyline took this path and finally coming to the phase where, Pratigya's character will take lead, in moving this serial in the direction that was intended at the start. So the stage is set.