Ye Meri Life Hai started with the plot of a lower middle class girl, dreaming big. The initial episodes had the youthful pep, jest and fervour. The first part of the episodes focussed on how Pooja manages to enter into elite college of St. Martins, breaking barriers of her upbringing and societal thinking. Then she had to struggle to make her a part of college surroundings since the fellow students came from higher strata and looked down upon her as ’’Bhehanji’’. Ultimately she wins not only them but the respect of her teachers and gets accepted. Tender feelings of love, friendship were also explored.The struggle of Pooja was inspiration to many. Though in these stages, there were few exaggerations like she solves many problems in her family as well. But each of these episodes had tight packaging and fast pace. Then out of college, her struggle to find job and then get one where she chases her dream, story drifted out from Pooja’s dream to elsewhere. Then came a phase where Ronit, her love, marries her sister Poornima. She has to swallow her tears and focus in her work, later she if made to marry Ashmit by circumstances. Pooja accepts the situation and is loyal to Ashmit. She goes all the way out to get Ashmit recognised by Gujral as his son. Then goes on to become a model daughter in law. Then comes the last phase, Pooja finds out Ashmit’s duality and punishes him for murdering her sister Poornima & Kunal. After that she goes into oblivion. She comes out of it because of Ronit and starts chasing her dreams. At this point, the directors decided to give speedy end and Sony decided to change time slot. So, directors hurried with Maya (her MIL) repentance on blaming & ill treating pooja...later pooja & ronit unite. Happy ending!! The plus point of this serial was it was swiftly paced except for brief drag in finding reality about Ashmit. All the actors performed well and were characters rather than themselves. The negative point was some actors were not utilised like the one who played Akash and some characters disappeared abruptly like Annie. In fact Pooja’s eldest sister and younger brother did not attend her wedding nor were present when she goes through agony on discovering and punishing Ashmit. Then the hurried end. No one knows if Pooja ever realised her dreams of being a big director like Karan Johar. Just hope she did!! Overall, the show was good.