There is only two ways to influence human behavior; you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.
Manipulation is always very fleeting and fragile. Antara: the manipulator
Inspiring people takes time, patience and courage as inspiration can only be projected through actions. Guddan: the imperfectly perfect juggadu firecracker
Antara is one of the very refined player to be introduced in this show so far. I'm calling her refined because she has truck load of experience in manipulating people. She is down right black and evil, the most dark character introduced in this show. She must have played this game from a very young age, starting off with manipulating her brother into projecting herself as a very obeying and loving girl to playing the part of a "Maa Sita" type wife with undying love and respect for her husband and his family.
A liar's worst enemy is someone with good memory.
Antara has mastered the art of lie/impression management. She says 10 different lie to 10 different people and has the foxy ability to remember each of these lies, and repeats the same lie to reinforce it and manipulate each of them differently to her advantage. Her most powerful tools (bhramastra) so far have been her innocent face and her tears. Akshat is, and has always been an emotional man. Even when he was wearing the facade of the angry and rude AJ, he would be effected by true emotions and tears (Revati suicide hospital scene). Just imagine, a naïve young middle class Akshat born and bought up in a protective and loving environment; it must have been easy to manipulate him for all these years.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Antara entered this game after well analyzing her opponent Guddan. She for sure must have researched on the Jindal family and especially Guddan Jindal before re-entering their lives.She knows about her kands and the juggadu miracles that she has pulled so far.She must also be aware that Guddan has time and again proved her righteousness and her strong character. So how do you handle an opponent like her? Well, the first thing you do is to attack her image of righteousness by making Jindal's believe that Guddan can stoop to any level to get rid of her. She is trying to prove that the righteous, loving and innocent looking Guddan can also be very manipulative when it come to her Jindal Sahab; HER LOVE, HER HUSBAND. Antara fails to realize that this righteousness is not an image for Guddan that can be repainted by any conniving scamster.
Guddan has forged herself this character of standing for what is right and fighting for injustice through her imperfect ways and her mantra : GUDDAN TUMSE HO PAYEGA. You cannot take that out from her. It is this same character that refuses to give up no matter what. You knock her down 100 times and she gets up again to fight back with everything that she has got. She is the juggadu firecracker. Antara ignited her inner fire, and now she will burn down her empire of lies and manipulation into ashes.
Score board: Antara Vs Guddan
1. Breaking Akshan’s marriage - Antara : 1 Guddan : 0
2. Re-entering Akshat’s life: Suicide Drama - Antara : 1 Guddan : 0
3. Guddan’s first direct attack (Nikkamma Doctor) - Antara : 1 Guddan: 0
The longer you fight an opponent the more you unravel them.A good opponent holds the potential to be your teacher. Let them teach you their ways.
Guddan is yet to see and measure the full depth of Antara’s well of lies and manipulation. This repeated defeat is nothing but helping Guddan decipher the true self and nature of Antara. Antara is teaching Guddan that people don’t fight fair and square and you have to be ready for this unfair means of fighting. Guddan will learn to turn the tables and use the opponents strongest weapon of manipulation against her.
Guddan will change her game plan accordingly and fight back. Antara’s over confidence in her ability to always win and fool people around her, will help Guddan unravel Antara and all her false impressions that she has created over the years. Antara must have left a trail of error behind her and she is forcing Guddan to follow those breadcrumbs and get to the witches home and extract all the secrets potions out.
Akshat Jindal might be guilt ridden at this point, but he is a changed man. Antara has very conveniently assumed that he is still the same pyar mein bewakoof Akshat from 15 years ago. She fails to see her fabricated death has changed this man into a shrewd business-man and he is noticing everything. This is Akshan's journey, they will fight this together in their own ways.
Every setback is a setup for comeback.
Pati Patni Aur Panga
Kumkum Bhagya
