Malini was always shown as graceful and sophisticated and soft spoken lady . Last few episodes are showing the real face of Malini. I always felt her treatment towards imlie was not sincere. It was only because the tripathy clan loves her. She is ultimately Mrs C's daughter and she is proving it. Just because she is having marital problem , she is taking frustration on imlie. Which is absolutely bad. She will never lash out on any other tripathy ladies.Deep inside she does think imlie as a charity and she just wants to make herself feel good by behaving nicely. She first behaves completely opposite to Mrs C to convince her self that she is not her mother, but she is behaving exactly like her mom . I am sure she will behave exactly like this if the story doesn't have Adi-imlie angle.