No one expects that a main char leaves in the middle ShanC. its an unfortunate thing happening with many shows.SM2 has been an exception sort, not just the lead actor got replaced, the lead character itself changed and still managed to grab points.
Yes Of course, even after changing the lead character.. many people continued the serial.
But from my point of view, After meenakshi marriage the serial lost so many audiences. especially the bachelors and college students. I started watching SM for senthil and sreeja cute love story as Saravanan and meenakshi, many of my college friends also and we use to discuss the cute moments in our college too. Many bachelors and college students used SM theme as ring tone.
For sure that craze is not there now.
Saravanan Meenakshi was something special for the cute love story.
But in SM2 it changed as regular Sun TV serial like Mamanar marumagan revenge, Mamanar marumagal fight, Own father try to spoil his daughter life, unwanted drama, unfinished stories, mother blackmail with health issue, memory loss, grandfather try to kill and so on...It was not at all a Love story then.. There are thousands of serials to show these tracks.
"SARAVANAN MEENAKSHI" is the brand name for love. I hope there is no serial with name of lead pairs before SM. The name itself says its a complete love story between "SARAVANAN MEENAKSHI".
So only I requested to continue SM as a love story...