Thank you for the tag :)
I'm so glad I finally found someone in the same boat as me.
I used to watch the show from beginning but on and off since there was nothing that actually held my interest. I had only started to watch because I'm a fan of Mayuri since her previous show.
Before Malini's character nose-dived to extremities, she was one of the best written one in the entire show. She was a woman who loved and lost. At a later point, even her anger and frustration and envy was understandable. Was she right, no, but she was a person who lost her love of 7 years, her friend, her husband and to whom, her step sister.
Until she started plotting murders and rape, her anger was understandable. During her marriage to AT the last time, she tells her mother she wants to see Imlie lose it all. For me, that is still understandable as she's coming from a family where's she seen her mother lose it and now history repeats. Ofcourse the makers could have shaped her character better but I still see there's some sort of poetic injustice when you see both the Chaturvedi women losing out in the hands of fate.
What ultimately Malini was not able to understand is that it's not the other women who's completely at fault. It was also the guy who was not able to handle the situation and didn't do justice with either women.
Until the later point of the story when Imlie finally started to realise her Babusaheb's flaw (which is after Aryan's entry) that I finally started resonating more with Imlie. I had a bit of sympathy for her earlier but I could never understand what she wanted to achieve at the end of the day. Did she plan on to stay forever as the househelp and remain in the house as undisclosed bahu and yet have her sister remain married to her husband?. And then her association with the T's was something I was never able to digest. Pre-Aryan, all I could muster was some sadness on seeing a young woman who was forced by fate and who didn't realise what the world was, not some sort of black and white canvas but rather an amalgam of grey.
@bold1: You've nailed it, damn true. Mayuri dealt it with a lot of poise and grace and till this day, unlike others who are literally ungrateful to the fame and name that the show bought them no matter what!!! I used to visit this forum though not regularly but was really saddened and offended as well to such comments go at her. I still remember the interview with the 4 of them and how some people targeted her with so much vitriol.
@bold2: And I resonate completely with the sentiment of that statement. What disgusts me more is when such a narcissistic character is defended. I suppose the world needs it's balance with such thinking as well!
Sorry, I know this is not related to the main post but couldn't really resist from responding to this one as I found someone exactly with the same thoughts as mine.š³
@ bold...... No worries, my friendš¤. I felt you had the same angst as me, I think both of us wrote on that appreciation thread and hence the tag.ā¤ļø I never know if I should or not, as I feel like I am trying to force something on peopleš³
Yes, Malini had a blind spot for her friend and husband, somebody she knew for 7 years in deference to the step sister She reacted badly to what she perceived as betrayal behind her back on the part of Imlie. To some extent I understand this. She wanted to believe that her friend of 7 years, whom she must have vetted out thoroughly because of her fear about a possibly similar life as her parents, wouldn't leave her, if not for Imlie. She wanted to stay in denial, thinking that if in this equation, Imlie is to be removed, her life will be back to normal. I am not saying this is the right way of thinking, this is how she rationalized the debacle both these people made her life out to beš It is extremely sad when you see her crying about what she had becomeš during her last wedding.
As to what Imlie wanted, she was a romantic, foolish teenagerš. On one hand, she wanted to get that mahanta of being the bigger person sacrificing for Malini didi's happiness. On the surface, she wanted to do this but then had difficult time resisting the excitement of being persuaded by an older, more mature guy who would choose her over a perfect girl ( Jeffrey Epstein's kaarnamein mujhe hila kar rakh diye when I see young girls down this pathš ). Pure Infatuationš¤¢She didn't understand that the romance of a make believe world and to live that reality are very different. Somehow, she thought she would be this one and only for the patrakaar and that he would be kicking and screaming if he had to entertain Malini and that she could shed her happy tears that Malini is getting a husband ( minus the joy of a fulfilling relationship) and those emotional tears as her husband only wanted herš. She didn't understand that these are two mutually exclusive wishes. Teenager's brain which lived in the cloudsBut she made it difficult for me to empathize during that phase as she spewed nonstop rhetoricš
Ironically, she will get that now with Aryan. She will be the one and only for himā¤ļøHave a great rest of the weekend, my friendš
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