MJ had once told Antara that she is the ground he is standing on and the moment that ground left him, he fell flat to face the reality of his life. MJ is a powerful man, who has ruined life with this money and power but he could do all this only because people around him supported him
When MJ had an affair with Maya, his wife Antara asked him to kill Maya's child or she will take his kids away from him, people around MJ provoked him and facilitated this demon, Antara doesn't fear MJ, it was on her demand that MJ ordered Manvi's murder
Both MJ and Maya killed people BUT their respective partners make the difference in their lives, Rudra is righteous, he stopped Maya unknowingly from hurting Ananya, he is the reason why Maya feels bad for killing Rishi
MJ has none in his life, people support him because they fear him, this fear is superficial as well, it was a brilliant moment and depicted well with MJ thinking about his family.
For me, this connect with antagonist was an important one, all this while MJ was a monotonous villain, they have added a layer of human emotions in him
Antara comes back and MJ is back to that old MJ because his ego of being The Mritunjay Roy is bigger than his reality.
A change in Antara too, She always had this power over MJ but she fluctuates in storytelling, sometimes MJ can force her to go to Maya and sometimes she can order MJ around like she did 10 years ago
Maya's character is beyond my understanding, Maya had a monolog about women like Antara and the scene where Antara calls Maya a kachra for having an affair with MJ, The same Maya refers to Ananya as gandagi, she comes from same school of thought as the other Mrs Roy, they think women who come between them and their husbands are kachra
Ananya can't even come between Maya and her husband who left his family for her, all she can do is make Rudra see how crazy Maya is for him, which is crucial because Maya needs therapy, if Rudra doesn't know that Maya needs a psychiatrist, how will he help her come out of her past? Rudra doesn't see these red flags, a woman who crushes and drinks pearls is not normal, a woman who tortures other people because they ate a cupcake is not normal, she needs help and that's what Ananya and Aditya are trying to show Rudra
Now, I agree that their intention is not to get help for Maya, their intention is to protect Rudra from Maya, they think Maya killed Rishi and she will harm Rudra too, that's what MJ has told Aditya and Aditya carried it to Ananya, Maya can't harm Rudra but who would leave it to the chance that someone as psychotic as Maya won't hurt Rudra? What will stop her? She killed one man, didn't she? She could kill more for Rudra's love
A very nicely written episode, minus Maya's hypocritical dialogues