Udaariyaan š for first ~100 episodes and realized the following:
1. TMD is inspired by Udaariyaan (full on) but there are several things which worked in favor of UD, but failed for TMD..
a) the ML is a much bigger cheater in UD but never willingly disrespected the FL, never abused her ( at least i didn't find in my FF watching experience š¤Ŗ)
b) So many organic moments in between Fateh & Tejo, which we really have never ever seen even after 221 episodes in TMD
c) The FL Tejo was way more vocal about her self respect and her inner turmoil than Sahiba
Maybe that could be the reason that though Fateh openly cheated with Jasmine and I can't even bear to think how much cringe it would have been for the people who used to watch it live, the sheer angst and chemistry between Tejo & Fateh would have worked for the audience.
Apart from this, some other reasons why TMD failed for us
2. No character development at all - I can't even say that TMD is plot driven, cos it's not. Its a mere khichdi of all the various plots all at once. And absolutely no organic growth to any character. (Some might say that Angad has improved, but for me, this snail's pace growth is not worthy of 221 episodes)
3. Many of us expected TMD to follow the OG Gaatchora and were hugely disssapointed when it started digressing
4. Again most of us expected it to be similar to Ishqbaaz, but the other 2 leads are nowhere having any scenes (Not to mention Keerat & Garry dont even have screenspace anymore)
Finally i would like to conclude my rant (š š) by saying.. One benchmark of a good romantic drama could be the re-watch value it holds for a viewer, and i am sorry to say, so far, there has been absolutely not even a single scene between Sahan that i would want to watch again.
Such good looking cast, such potential, and all butchered, for what? Nobody knows! š