During the Mani track and before it I used to visit the Daily Live Discussion thread! There everyone was in favor of Mani and his characterization. But even then I had said they are slowly killing Raman Bhalla in this track! His fierceness, shrewdness, that confident attitude, that lie-detecting quality of his was all slowly going away. At that time many people had said oh dont worry the character has gone nowhere, he's still the same. After that I had made replies on that thread many times questioning his character. Many had said I was thinking negatively and now he loves his wife, whats wrong in listening to her and praising her a bit (During Ashok -Shagun's Shadi which was never supposed to happen!). When I said he's becoming a JM bhakt (along with many more people) some argued that its not wrong to hear her suggestions! ("Raman biwi se pyaar karega toh character assassination nahi karega toh akdoo... ")
Now I see the same people saying, yes the character of Raman has been completely destroyed and we need the Old one back!! Seeing it, I laugh without any humor!!
I had seen various posts of people complaining back then all of them were replied by saying u are being negative!!
Turns out we all were right!!