i feel as though whatever leenesh said to them about leaving, worked in his favour, because ruvya to me get equal amounts of emphasis and screen time as shivika. i don't know, it feels like this whole merger was a mistake. no one is happy with it and even though lee & kunal are saying they know what they're doing, eventually, I think they'll start to get annoyed at being pushed to the sidelines again. (more so than they already are / have been)

I actually think so too. And that made me so angry cuz when Andas started in DBO..they got so much focus and development. In mere weeks they seemingly got more development, “goals” scenes, and more importantly a semblance of a proper story that RiKara never got. Then there was them being inserted in every single RiKara scene toh matlab..! Theek thaak gussa kiya hai maine. But post merger even that has ended and it has become blatantly obvious that Ruvya is being literally shoved down the audience’s throat. It is literally the case of kal ke bache who haven’t done shit to earn their place standing on the shoulders of people who have worked their asses off to reach the position of popularity. EVERYTHING is being served to them on a platter and the old fans of the show can’t stand for this. Ruvya as a couple and Bhavya as a character don’t organically fit in with rest of the characters/story. I’ve said this before, ALL the characters have been compromised to make them look natural and not something that was added in last minute. The CVs may think just because they forgot about Rudra’s past, the audience would too. But that clearly isn’t happening. The more Bhavya is made to look like she’s the fated third angle of the ObBahus..the more people remember Soumya and how she just fit so naturally within in the Oberois dynamics. Sure, their jodi do have a fanbase but so do Priyanka-Ranveer. I’m just saying.

I can’t claim to know what’s going on in the actors’ minds. Initially even I was mad at Kunal for not doing something drastic like Lee to ensure his story would also get meat in the show. But post merger..RiKara have been SOOO on point that I can’t complain. So i guess whatever his strategy was..it worked. Right now the track is focusing on the ObBros with the baby. But individually Omkara’s track with Gauri is also progressing and THANK GOD for that! I don’t mind them getting 5-8 minutes of the screentime as long as those minutes count. And so far..every minute of theirs have counted. So I’m happy :)