Well in a way, hopefully people realise that it is numbers that drive the content and not a "story". I learnt it the VERY hard way. Took a lot of unlearning to get there.
Yup
Fans are blaming Ruhi and other characters but in all these episodes, Abhimaan have been together before that during Shivani track, they decreased episode duration from 20+ minutes to 17-18 minutes to increase TRP
Decreased in episode duration is a sign that revenues were decreasing so advertisement time was increased, that has happened many times, they had 14 minutes episode at a point, IIRC
Same trick will be played again, Anupamaa as a bargaining chip has saved Rishta many times
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