Originally posted by: Lodestar
I frankly don't understand the need to extrapolate every problem in a woman's life to the man involved in her life.
Both Malini & Imlie have agency of their own to make the choices that they want to. And they both do this frequently. Adi is not the one who is holding or forcing them to be in a relationship with him.
In case of Malini, Adi has given her 1000s of reason that show her that he does not love her & wants to separate from her. Yes, he has not told her the god damn truth. But her own instinct is working just fine & she has come to the same conclusion. It is just that she doesn't want to accept the truth that her marriage is over & using twisted means to hold onto Adi. She is the one who is forcing him to continue being in the relationship. Malini has all the advantages in life- she is beautiful, well educated, working & comes from an affluent background. She has all the options in the world open to her but she is just herself getting fixated on not having Adi.
In case of Imlie, she has always stuck to her own decisions regarding her view of their relationship giving two hoots about what Adi wants. Earlier when Adi wanted her to let go of her faith in their marriage, she refused & maintained her faith in her relationship. When Adi went on to tell her to move on with someone else, again she refused to give up her faith & belief in their marriage & left Delhi itself because she wanted to live her life on her own terms. Yes Imlie does not have many options & privileges but that has never stopped her from following her own convictions. Now that Adi loves her & wants to reveal the truth & give her rightful place of his wife again she is refusing to comply due to her own morality.
So where has Adi taken away her choices. Yes, he emotionally black mailed her to return back to T house but it only worked in her because she herself wanted to go back to the family & Adi but was just denying herself. In Imlie's case there will always be a lot of self denial & so Adi will be the one who will try to get the things & haq that she wants for herself which can come off as him forcing his will on her if people just ignore what Imlie actually wants rather than what she says she wants.