Originally posted by: Krantikari
I never felt she was whitewashed or shown mahaan.😆 Her saccharine sweet act was always a facade and it was always deliberately more obvious to the audience and less obvious to other characters in the show. It was just more subtle before and less subtle now. Just like how this time she 'benevolently' donated her saree to Imlie to insert herself into this event, before she did things for others in a charity like manner also.😆 To me her demeanour with Adi/Ts'/Imlie always screamed that look, I'm doing you all neech class people a favour by doing things for you, you should all be grateful for my charity.😛 She was always perplexed with how Imlie (a gaoon ki ladki) can be so important to the Ts' toh to include herself, she started praising Imlie to Aditya without even really knowing her (like in that episode when Imlie made moti roti for Malini). She didn't like the moti roti but she defended Imlie when Adi said yeh ladki kuch bhi thik se nahi kar sakti.😆 I felt that was so insincere...praising/defending someone you barely know.😆
Aur bhi examples hai after Adi-Malini marriage, she always defended and did things for Imlie as an act of charity, to show Ts' how great she is for being able to do things for a servant when she came from a upper class background. There is a term for this in psychology but I can't recall it now. It's basically how racist people act the most supportive of other races in public to prove that they are not racist...you overcompensate your unconscious dislike/distrust of people by doing things for them and praising them. You this to suppress your true feelings but they come out in ways when you no longer can hide your true feelings from yourself. Like when Malini Didi didn't allow Imlie to attend the family dinner when Nishant bought a car, because she all along thought she was a servant. And now the way she donated her saree. I'm not sure if I can call this guilty conscience, because I don't think she feels guilty at all.😆 It's just classic upper class behaviour towards the less privileged.
This is so interesting. I binged watched Imlie recently so I might have missed parts of Malini's characterization. But I always thought why is she so super-sweet with Imlie from day 1.
From the beginning, I did see her as an emotionally weak person who needed to be coddled. Good lord she fainted when Aditya told her the truth. Any normal person would have been shocked but would have eventually worked with her fiance to help him get out of the first marriage. Not faint and then convince themselves that it was all a joke, forget about it, and to never remember it again no matter how many signs were presented in front of you that it was not a joke. The emotional trauma Aditya went through being forcefully married to a young village girl, Malini had no emotional strength to help him heal. In fact Aditya is the one who had to make up a lie and help her heal. I also saw all the problems in Aditya-Malini relationship from the beginning. Gosh the amount of times she called Aditya during his first PD trip. In the first ten episodes, she was either calling Aditya, waiting for his call, talking about him, or thinking about him. Like she had no life outside of Aditya even though she had a full-time job. Who takes a day off from work if your boyfriend is coming back from a 3-day work trip. 😆 Especially if you met him right before the trip and will meet him right after the trip and talked to him 10 times during his trip. 😆 This is not how someone behaves who feels secure in a relationship. No matter how many times she told her mother that Aditya has never given a reason to doubt him, her actions clearly showed her insecurities. And Aditya had no idea about this as he never invested more than 1 brain cell in this relationship. 😆
Even when Aditya went on the last PD trip, I saw her complete meltdown and thought jeez she needs help, but that's it. It is only after Aditya's return from PD trip that I am seeing shades of gray in her character. Not only is she an emotionally weak person, which I can understand, but she is not a genuine person at all. All the good feelings she has is only when all things around her are going as per her wish. All her sweetness evaporates the minute things go the other way.