Originally posted by Nive-divi
It's true that this turned into a saas-bahu serial rather than sticking to being a message worthy serial.
The creatives and writers really slacked on the story. They thought that by adding a few masala scenes, a wicked tongue daughter in law, a few near to death Sahil scenes and the 'other' woman would cure the show. None of this worked at all.
Lack of concentration on the chemistry of the leads
Lack of conviction of actual love between Shivani Sahil
Weird reason for a mother to be upset at son for so many years (Anup)
Bad acting of Shivani, very stiff, cold and akward
Bad acting of Shivani's family (except her sister, who looked the most normal)
Akward acting by Sahil - who did not fit well.
Mansi Anup looked good, but Mansi looked as if she was constipated sometimes.
Rajlakshmi was good, so were the bua and her husband.
Sandhya and Mansi's sister in law were convincing to a degree.
They put too much sole concentration on one single story - Mansi and Anup and Anup and his mother (weak story). In the meantime, there was no room for much to happen.
They could have used the opportunity to show the pros and cons of love and arranged marriages, which they tried to show to an extent. The story and the actors lacked the dynamism.
But I have to say that the actors were not convincing us either.
Excellent review of LMYAM