Originally posted by: AreYaar
LOL this is from way back....the very early days of Imlie starting to stay at Tripathi house. Family was prepping for Adi-Malini's engagement and Aparna made Imlie try on a ring....that's when Adi made this comment. He was in a different headspace back then actively resenting/blaming Imlie in his defensiveness and need to push her away.....so any time Imlie ended up touching something he deemed to belong to Malini, he put her down....in this case he told Aparna ki chandan aur mitti mein farak hota hai or something to that extent....implying that Malini is chandan and Imlie is mitti😆......but as you put it beautifully, Chandan bhi mitti mein hi ugta hai :)
*Edit: Here's the link to the scene if you're curious....this was literally almost like day 2 or 3 of Imlie in Tripathi house....Adi was in his hyper resentment mode with Imlie back then😆
There is a world of a difference between that Adi and the Adi today....are we really going to pretend the story hasn't progressed way past that point? Gunshot track has more than shown Imlie's value in Adi's life.....one offhand comment about chandan/mitti is not the sum of him. He has his own way of elevating Imlie's value in his life now....as he showed in his response to her "sadak ki dhool" lament.
Ohh he has been way more cruel to her but that was different time, different place. He, himself was a victim and he was still reeling from the shock that he was forced to marry a 18 year old kid. His life, as he had envisioned was really on the brink of destruction. He could not share it with anyone and the only person who knew the truth as well as was the stark reminder was Imlie. Hence, his way of coping was lashing out. I, frankly will not blame him for those things, as in a way he has already made up for most of the things since the gunshot track.
If there is something that I would blame or would like to see him atone for would be for bigamy. The day he married Malini, without telling the truth or dissolving his first marriage, was the day he did an injustice to both women. He own selfish decision, took the choice away from Malini and left Imlie with no choice but to lie. This is where he was wrong and where he should repent.