Between light and darkness - Page 9

Originally posted by: MuteButton

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I just selected episode 10 for a rewatch and even then Malini was just maaroing chutti to college and staying at home cooking for Aditya I cannot even imagine why we all thought those two actually loved one another at some point. They hoodwinked us also with the 7 year jaap a bit 😆

Malini in no way is a sorted or responsible person. The amount of nonchalance she has towards everything in life including her profession can only come with the kind of riches she has been born into. And now she is going to use that same disregard towards her life also

Oh lol I think I remember that epi.....she was trying to cook up a storm to prove what a loving/caring wife she will be😆....and I think this was the epi where she was trying to make some halwa for Adi I think jo ki JAL gaya tha phir and then she was crying over that too😆

Sorted/responsible toh door ki baat hai, the woman didn't even have basic maturity but just cuz she strutted around in a sari and put on a sweet facade, sabne isko "mature" ka label automatically chipka diya😕😆

Warna imagine a grown/educated woman like her still measuring her worth in whether or not she can cook up 20 fancy dishes for Adi😆

This is why the Moti Roti arc is one of my favs....Malini kept trying to cook a gazillion fancy things for him in 7 years and one simple Moti Roti from Imlie superseded all of that effortlessly😆....it's such a win for substance and connect over fancy packaging. In a world of superficial appearances and judgements, the genuine taste of warmth/love in a simple roti won the day :) If Malini had made more effort to pour love even in a simple dish for Adi, that would anyday have meant more to him....but she isn't capable of that kind of stuff.

As for 7 years ka love....I could see the early warning signs in their relationship but yeah even I thought maybe they both love each other in their own way, it's just not as deep and true as what Adi will discover with Imlie. Ab jaake pata chal raha hai ki inka toh utna bare minimum genuine love bhi nahin tha.....sab dikhava tha😆

Originally posted by: MuteButton

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I just selected episode 10 for a rewatch and even then Malini was just maaroing chutti to college and staying at home cooking for Aditya I cannot even imagine why we all thought those two actually loved one another at some point. They hoodwinked us also with the 7 year jaap a bit 😆

Malini in no way is a sorted or responsible person. The amount of nonchalance she has towards everything in life including her profession can only come with the kind of riches she has been born into. And now she is going to use that same disregard towards her life also

Malini as a professor is whole another story..😆

It seems like she working as a non attending professor in that college. Her students must be lucky to get so many free lectures...

A post to move it to the 🔝 once again 😊

Originally posted by: AreYaar

Oh lol I think I remember that epi.....she was trying to cook up a storm to prove what a loving/caring wife she will be😆....and I think this was the epi where she was trying to make some halwa for Adi I think jo ki JAL gaya tha phir and then she was crying over that too😆

Sorted/responsible toh door ki baat hai, the woman didn't even have basic maturity but just cuz she strutted around in a sari and put on a sweet facade, sabne isko "mature" ka label automatically chipka diya😕😆

Warna imagine a grown/educated woman like her still measuring her worth in whether or not she can cook up 20 fancy dishes for Adi😆

This is why the Moti Roti arc is one of my favs....Malini kept trying to cook a gazillion fancy things for him in 7 years and one simple Moti Roti from Imlie superseded all of that effortlessly😆....it's such a win for substance and connect over fancy packaging. In a world of superficial appearances and judgements, the genuine taste of warmth/love in a simple roti won the day :) If Malini had made more effort to pour love even in a simple dish for Adi, that would anyday have meant more to him....but she isn't capable of that kind of stuff.

As for 7 years ka love....I could see the early warning signs in their relationship but yeah even I thought maybe they both love each other in their own way, it's just not as deep and true as what Adi will discover with Imlie. Ab jaake pata chal raha hai ki inka toh utna bare minimum genuine love bhi nahin tha.....sab dikhava tha😆

Lol! Yeah, it felt like she was cooking for someone who was returning from war after three years and not three days. And she gets these fancy dry fruits and fruit laden cups to fill with kheer and that had been burnt so throws a fit. It goes to prove that so much of perception associated with her was all external and possibly her speech to some extent. Even that I find a bit jarring at times.

Word on the moti roti comparison. Isn’t it the way of the world? You go out of home for a few days, you eat things that are potentially exotic but you come home and the one thing you crave for is the meager dal/chawal or rice/ rasam. Love and comfort comes in the simplest of forms. Embellishments are unnecessary most of the times. Malini turned 7 years into one long exaggeration instead of getting to know what Aditya actually wanted. Like you said, she was just plain incapable.

The most ironical bit of the entire initial PD track was that he ended up getting married to Imlie because of a gift that Malini demanded! Her asking for a gift guilted the guy so much because it came after she first went on and on about how much she fears for their relationship

Wtf is the deal with Nishant. Dude barely knows her for a month and just worships her.

Didi never gives two hoots about the family, she only wants her Adi toy. Sirf drama karwaani ke liye family ki yaad aati hai.

So I'm literally confused why Nishant is doing Malini Malini all the time? He's the most obnoxious out of the T's. Adhi problems ye directly ya indirectly badha raha hai.

Originally posted by: MuteButton

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I just selected episode 10 for a rewatch and even then Malini was just maaroing chutti to college and staying at home cooking for Aditya I cannot even imagine why we all thought those two actually loved one another at some point. They hoodwinked us also with the 7 year jaap a bit 😆

Malini in no way is a sorted or responsible person. The amount of nonchalance she has towards everything in life including her profession can only come with the kind of riches she has been born into. And now she is going to use that same disregard towards her life also

It is in this episode I saw the clear difference in Malini and Imlie, how emotionally weak Malini was compared to how emotionally strong Imlie was. I do not know if it was deliberately put like that by writers, but here in Delhi they showed how Malini needed her mother to console her just because the kheer got burnt, she could not even handle that much and had a break down. Where on the other hand, imlie is being forced into marriage, her mother is going on and on about how Imlie is having to deal with her mother’s kismat and how she cannot protect her daughter, and Imlie is the one to console her mother saying that she just agreed to marry Aditya so the villagers do not kill him, that she knows he loves someone else and she needs to make a plan to get him out of this mess, not worrying about her future in the village if Aditya can get away from there. The difference was shown so clearly to the audience between both the women. While one has a breakdown over burnt food, the other one is using all her inner strength to get out of force marriage.

Also, even I felt Malini’s clinginess and insecurity in first 10 episodes. When she heard Imlie on the phone, her expressions were like OMG did Aditya cheat on me.

And in that call they showed that Aditya thought she was just nervous about marriage just like she used to be nervous about college exams. And don’t even get me started on phone calls. She was either calling him, talking to him or waiting for him to call back. Making kheer for him, taking a day off from college, I am like what is all this....teen din ke liye toh gaya tha. 😆Go hangout with your friends for god sake or go read a book. Don’t you have life outside Aditya? As it turns out, she really had no life outside Aditya. Knowing how independent minded Aditya is, I have no idea how he dealt with her clinginess?

Originally posted by: Guneet80

Wtf is the deal with Nishant. Dude barely knows her for a month and just worships her.

Didi never gives two hoots about the family, she only wants her Adi toy. Sirf drama karwaani ke liye family ki yaad aati hai.

So I'm literally confused why Nishant is doing Malini Malini all the time? He's the most obnoxious out of the T's. Adhi problems ye directly ya indirectly badha raha hai.

Birds of a feather no. Both of them lacking in courage to actually ask Aditya what they are thinking. And he is in a way most suited for the third person angle because of the very fact that he does not know Malini enough and has been away from the family for 10 years.

Originally posted by: Anvi2009

It is in this episode I saw the clear difference in Malini and Imlie, how emotionally weak Malini was compared to how emotionally strong Imlie was. I do not know if it was deliberately put like that by writers, but here in Delhi they showed how Malini needed her mother to console her just because the kheer got burnt, she could not even handle that much and had a break down. Where on the other hand, imlie is being forced into marriage, her mother is going on and on about how Imlie is having to deal with her mother’s kismat and how she cannot protect her daughter, and Imlie is the one to console her mother saying that she just agreed to marry Aditya so the villagers do not kill him, that she knows he loves someone else and she needs to make a plan to get him out of this mess, not worrying about her future in the village if Aditya can get away from there. The difference was shown so clearly to the audience between both the women. While one has a breakdown over burnt food, the other one is using all her inner strength to get out of force marriage.

Also, even I felt Malini’s clinginess and insecurity in first 10 episodes. When she heard Imlie on the phone, her expressions were like OMG did Aditya cheat on me.

And in that call they showed that Aditya thought she was just nervous about marriage just like she used to be nervous about college exams. And don’t even get me started on phone calls. She was either calling him, talking to him or waiting for him to call back. Making kheer for him, taking a day off from college, I am like what is all this....teen din ke liye toh gaya tha. 😆Go hangout with your friends for god sake or go read a book. Don’t you have life outside Aditya? As it turns out, she really had no life outside Aditya. Knowing how independent minded Aditya is, I have no idea how he dealt with her clinginess?

True. The makers have actually put out Malini’s characteristics quite openly from the very beginning, bringing out a contrast all along with Imlie’s. Just that Aditya’s journey of self-realization eclipsed it a bit. If the viewers go back and watch the initial episodes, the differences and issues between those two could not be clearer.

Malini tied her entire identity around Aditya because she’s weak. In him she saw someone who she thought was stable and yet malleable to her wishes so that was sufficient for her to latch on to. Never attempting to knowing the real him or herself is the cause of her current problems.

Like AY said in a previous post, maybe Aditya was so emotionally unaware then that her clinginess never came through.

Originally posted by: MuteButton

Birds of a feather no. Both of them lacking in courage to actually ask Aditya what they are thinking. And he is in a way most suited for the third person angle because of the very fact that he does not know Malini enough and has been away from the family for 10 years.

Hey just curious what is this third person angle that you mention?

Nishant is ridiculous, he says Adi used to tell him everything, he's changed. Well it's been ten years, wake up sunshine, people change

Originally posted by: AreYaar

Thanks, countryapple :)

@bold: Yes, that is exactly the contrast they are setting up. People with privilege don't always value their privilege and blessings....they spend their entire lives chasing mirages and then wallowing in self-pity when they realize that the mirage wasn't real. Malini falls in that category of people.....wealth and privilege cushioned her all her life, she had no real sense of family or relationships given the toxic atmosphere in her house...so her entire life has been one grand delusion after the other further stoked by a family that makes her feel like a saintly person who is constantly wronged by others.....she's been given such a sense of security by everyone around her all her life yet she still feels constantly insecure about everything.

Imlie on the other hand has literally faced existential darkness for most of her life and still emerged as the light that has cut through all kinds of darkness to find her path.....the whole point of her character is to show that light/joy can emerge from the bleakest of circumstances.....while all the surface level shine/glamor of a privileged existence like that of Malini is only a cover for the toxic darkness within. Even after being granted the blessing of such a loving family like the Tripathis, Malini couldn't manage to build anything out of that....cuz it's just not in her character to bring light or positivity.....her entire existence is about sucking life and joy out of others to prop up herself and feel pampered.....until she can get out of that vicious cycle, there is no hope for her.

I can only hope someone points out how Malini has disrespected the gift of life with this attempt at taking her own life.....rather than as usual making the whole thing about blaming Aditya for not showing enough worry for her and supposedly driving her to this🤔.....

@bold We had a similar discussion before...about Imlie being solar and Malini being lunar in nature. I like how the makers are overtly addressing this theme now. As you have rightly pointed out, Imlie is the source of her own light...she cuts through all the darkness/setbacks in her life and forges her own path. Just like the sun. She lights up any space she is in no matter how dark it was previously, spreading joy and sunshine to others along the way. :) Whereas Malini who is lunar in nature cannot generate her own light, she has to seek it externally, like the moon. Coincidentally or not so coincidentally, that was the name given to her by Aditya.😆 She doesn't have a mind of her own and always relies on other people to make decisions in her life. She literally had to be prodded by her Dad and Daadi to connect the dots about Adi-Imlie, even that she couldn't do on her own.😆

Interesting also how since the start of the show, she consciously or subconsciously connected herself to Imlie to make herself relevant in Adi's life.🤣 She bestowed her 'kindness' on Imlie to prop her image in front of Adi and the Ts, she was banking on Imlie's light since the very start.😛 I was re-watching some of the old epis and Imlie came up in almost every convo between Adi-Malini.😆 Her current attempts to dim Imlie's light by putting her down is self-defeating because by doing this she is creating darkness in her own life. The moon's light is a mirage which cannot sustain without the sun's light.

I can only hope that our solar Jhalli Imlie will generate her own light and cut through the current and upcoming darkness following her suicide stunt.