Character Analysis : Adi, Imlie and Malini

Disclaimer : This was originally a response to someone. So context matters.

Regarding IMLIE, I completely reject the idea that this character is unrealistic. People like this exist actually who are self-sacrificing, who are brilliant. Moreover who decides what's realistic or unrealistic? It's a subjective term so I don't understand why a character should be blamed for not upholding someone else's definition of "realistic". I think the one person who suffered the most in this situation is everything. She had to leave behind everything, face mistreatment from AC and even Adi initially. She went through all this for nothing, she deserves better.

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Regarding ADI, I inherently dislike him for his flaws and I agree he's an anti-hero. He's a grey character who is selfish, sometimes manipulative too also quite callous. Despite recognising all his flaws, the audience including me still loves Adilie together, which I know isn't okay from set standards of morality. I think despite being so flawed Ad actually cares about Imlie and connects with her simplicity, ambition and her strength of character.

The marriage with Malini was the worst mistake of Aditya. Only and only Aditya. If only he didn't be selfish in that moment and spoke up.

Adi's equation with Malini is flawed, always has been so apparent from a lot of conversations and scenes which talked about their past. You can call this a bias but I think Adini would have broken up even without Imlie, they don't match. Adi looks for fierceness which he doesn't find in Malini (unfair comparison I know)

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Regarding MALINI, I will tell you outright I dislike her but not for the reasons you think. Malini is completely innocent in the wedding drama, she thought she was marrying the man who loved her(or it appeared so). Keep Imlie aside, what I gauze from all the scenes describing past is that Adi is a practical guy who didn't think about love at all, his family was pressuring him to marry someone. Malini was his good friend and he thought understanding is the key to a relationship. This is exactly what happens in real life with arranged marriages, people marry literal strangers even educated ones. Only difference here is, Malini loved Adi but Adi didn't. He just thought Malini will be suitable for him.

Her experienced real love with Imlie, no matter how wrong someone thinks the conditions were. But yes, Malini no matter she's like doesn't deserve this at all. She deserves a man who would love her that is why I want her to leave Adi.

Now regarding why I don't like Malini, (this is all independent from me liking Adilie) she's very classist. She concealed it really well because she has always been image concious. Also because Aditya likes people who are simplistic and have strong values (quite ironic I know). Imlie has been Malini's pet project. Now you would say I'm accusing her, no.

Malini never actually cared about Imlie. You must've heard white people like blacks only as victims but the moment they try to be at par with them, their superiority comes out in front. This is exactly what happened here. Malini claimed she didn't believe in class etc but the she used Imlie to vent her frustration, was jealous because she thought Adi cared for her. Mind you here she didn't know the truth but still she chose to insult Imlie for that sindoor and call her naukrani, random ladki etc. And this is just one instance.

Malini is also very manipulative. She says what she wants and then goes like koi nahi nothing happened. Maybe you haven't met manipulative people irl but that's how they behave. It's called love-bombing.

Finally, I dislike Malini but I don't think she deserved what happened to her with the marriage/troubled marriage. She didn't deserve that no girl deserves it no matter how flawed. The only logical solution is that Malini gathers her self respect and choose herself over Adi. Also if Adilie want to be together, I don't think anybody can stop them at all. Also, as an audience I would want a bright future for Imlie and Adi finally being free from all the guilt.

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So from Malini's perspective

She should just stand and watch her husband romancing a servant right under her nose

Venting her frustration makes her 'classist'

She confronts her husband about their marriage ...so she becomes "it's all about me". As a wife she should not question why her husband is suddenly taking so much interest in another girl...ofcouse all this makes her manipulative and a pile on...now ofcourse no wife does that....if they suspect EMA....just keep quiet...

And ofcourse it's her fault that she was born in a well to do family....so it's her fault if she wants to save her marriage

So now Imli is ofcourse the most realist character.

At age 19 she has life time experience and has a say in every matter

Yes all married college going girls carry sindoor in their bags

Since she is poor..she gets passport and Visa to romance another girl's hubby in their bedroom

And Adi

Hahahahaha

NO COMMENTS

Originally posted by: gopi2929

So from Malini's perspective

She should just stand and watch her husband romancing a servant right under her nose

Venting her frustration makes her 'classist'

She confronts her husband about their marriage ...so she becomes "it's all about me". As a wife she should not question why her husband is suddenly taking so much interest in another girl...ofcouse all this makes her manipulative and a pile on...now ofcourse no wife does that....if they suspect EMA....just keep quiet...

And ofcourse it's her fault that she was born in a well to do family....so it's her fault if she wants to save her marriage

So now Imli is ofcourse the most realist character.

At age 19 she has life time experience and has a say in every matter

Yes all married college going girls carry sindoor in their bags

Since she is poor..she gets passport and Visa to romance another girl's hubby in their bedroom

And Adi

Hahahahaha

NO COMMENTS

Servant. Another girl’s hubby. You’re not watching the same show girl.

Also, when did she see anyone romancing anyone? She was just upset and mad at adi not being the same with her and took it out on a girl she called ‘very important and choti behan’ right the next day. If she’s so mad then why say those words? Because it was all about getting a reaction out of aditya and not actually being suspicious or anything, cause she can’t confront her husband but can ruin a girl’s first day of college, mentally torture her nearly for her the sake of getting attention from him.
When a woman thinks her husband is giving to attention to another girl, she either starts abusing the girl or like anyone with dignity and a proper sense of right and wrong confronts her husband. Sadly, malini is the former and that too without having any strong suspicions.

You know I really don’t understand where imlie comes in this. This is all between aditya and malini, if aditya had ever loved her there could be no space for another but he never loved her and his heart did have the space for another and he decided to end it with malini as anyone should in that situation, why live in a relationship with no love? Imlie never actively pursued aditya, she left not once but twice, he fell in love with her and that changed all equations. I don’t understand the unnecessary bashing imlie gets, as if she didn’t get married forcefully ripped away from her mother, insulted by her husband having to watch him marry someone else. She is not a servant she lived like that for his sake and because she had nowhere else to go. For her, marriage only happens once, the marriage was a blessing from her sita maiyya and aditya will always remain her husband. And he considers her his wife now. The sindoor is all she has, a symbol of her faith. A marriage on top of a marriage doesn’t work anyways. But I am not going to get into labels because I don’t have to call people ‘servants’ or ‘other women’ or ‘ema’ to understand the complicated emotions in this story since it works without labels. It’s a story about human emotions not about who was first and who was second who gets to wear the mangalsutra and who doesn’t.

Originally posted by: Guneet80

Disclaimer : This was originally a response to someone. So context matters.

Regarding IMLIE, I completely reject the idea that this character is unrealistic. People like this exist actually who are self-sacrificing, who are brilliant. Moreover who decides what's realistic or unrealistic? It's a subjective term so I don't understand why a character should be blamed for not upholding someone else's definition of "realistic". I think the one person who suffered the most in this situation is everything. She had to leave behind everything, face mistreatment from AC and even Adi initially. She went through all this for nothing, she deserves better.

Exactly, sometimes people go through the most horrible of situations in their life right from the beginning and they don’t always come out with rough edges, they come out quite selfless from it with a kind heart. People like that do exist. In a world of billions you can’t keep fitting everyone into boxes and stereotypes. And besides, I think imlie does have her own flaws, the naivety which makes her take wrong decisions at times and also the insecurity with love which she developed due to dev abandoning her and her nakli nani constantly berating her for, yes she had her strength developed from the love of her amma and sk and everything she had to bear, but the trauma of being called illegitimate all her life and afterwards aditya also abandoning her made her fearful with love and relationships, she selflessly devotes all of herself to it because of how devoted she gets and when those relationships are in danger she becomes a bit selfish I’d say at her own cost actually, forgoing her self even (not in the good way) doing everything she can to keep those relationships. For example her malini didi jaap, her excessive devotion and sacrifices for malini is in part because of her fear of losing her and the tripathis and because of the trauma she went after malini shouted at her and called her those things. She became even more scared. As if the family was falling apart because of her. So she has blinded herself to aditya’s pleas because she does not want to lose her other relationships. All of this makes her very real and very human.

People just refuse to look at her from more angles because I believe some people take out the anger of malini’s marriage breaking out on her when the show has time and again showed the reason for malini’s marriage breaking is the incompatibility between her and aditya and aditya not being in love with her. Imlie’s presence just sped up the process because aditya fell in love with her not because she did anything to interfere, that marriage was so fragile and superficial it would have fallen apart sooner or later.

Edit: I have a different perception on aditya, though I don’t love him but I really like his character, he is one of the best written ml characters in itv of recent times I think. I am going to link my reply in another thread regarding him, do give it a read guneet. And thank you for your analysis as well 😊

https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/post/156818520

1. Not going to comment on Aditya because he is truly despicable and doesn’t deserve any consideration.

1. Imlie is unrelatable and unrealistic. Period. Do you know of any grown woman who behaves like she does? Jump on vegetable carts? Overact to that extent? And her antics are more socially awkward and weird than quirky and adorable. Nobody is like that in real life. She crosses the line all the time. I can bet noone here has met a girl like Imlie in real life, because she is actually an actor playing a “character” than an actual and relatable person inspired from real life like Malini.
2. Would you have the same feelings about Imlie if Aditya was your husband? Its easy to excuse Imlie from the sidelines but imagine actually suffering because of her actions. Like objectively? Malini if anything is not reacting enough and holding back a lot.
3. What do you mean Imlie is self sacrificing!? LOL if she was self sacrificing she would never have come back to the tripathi house and left the hostel. She wouldn’t have given in to aditya’s advances and never have eyed him in the wrong way in the first place. And shes supposed to be “strong” right? So as a “strong” and “self sacrificing” woman she should have stood her ground and removed herself COMPLETELY from Aditya and Malini’s life. I am sorry but romancing Aditya behind Malini’s back is not self sacrificing.

Originally posted by: gopi2929

So from Malini's perspective

She should just stand and watch her husband romancing a servant right under her nose

Venting her frustration makes her 'classist'

She confronts her husband about their marriage ...so she becomes "it's all about me". As a wife she should not question why her husband is suddenly taking so much interest in another girl...ofcouse all this makes her manipulative and a pile on...now ofcourse no wife does that....if they suspect EMA....just keep quiet...

And ofcourse it's her fault that she was born in a well to do family....so it's her fault if she wants to save her marriage

So now Imli is ofcourse the most realist character.

At age 19 she has life time experience and has a say in every matter

Yes all married college going girls carry sindoor in their bags

Since she is poor..she gets passport and Visa to romance another girl's hubby in their bedroom

And Adi

Hahahahaha

NO COMMENTS

i wonder if you are watching the show. It is not wrong to question husband but it is wrong to look down on a person who saved your life. It is wrong to use relationships to your advantage, if you want to show your mahaanta call Imlie “little sis” else call her “ servant or random girl”. This very character is called manipulative.

You lash out on Imlie coz she is easy to shout upon and take out your frustrations? Just coz you portrayed your mahaanta? Why is Imlie so low in every one’s eyes just coz she helps and understands everyone without even asking her?

Yes, it is her belief that sindhoor is her saath. It is her faith.She lived all her life without any support, but she suddenly got it from the person she loves the most. Can’t she atleast carry it as her personal item? Can’t she have privacy? Does anyone look into Malini’s bag to check it’s contents?

It is understandable that malini feels insecured for her marriage but she has no one to complain other than herself or her husband. Why she has to bring in Imlie or the whole family in their fights? Why not wait for truth? Instead commit suicide for class and to get revenge on her husband?

Malini gets free passport coz she is weak hearted has family status and a princess to everyone? She has to be center of attention for everyone.And Imlie never got any free pass for anything. She struggled at every step, even though she couldn’t enjoy her achievements atleast for a day. Thanks to her so called big sis

Kuch bhi award👸

Coming up with all sorts of random logic to justify adili

Sindoor a gift from sita maiya... haha give me a break

Not Malini but Imli is the actual princess here...always the bechari

Originally posted by: gopi2929

Kuch bhi award👸

Coming up with all sorts of random logic to justify adili

Sindoor a gift from sita maiya... haha give me a break

Not Malini but Imli is the actual princess here...always the bechari

Now it is confirmed we are not talking about the same show😀.

Imlie never portrayed herself as bechaari or cried her grief to others but malini always does that even to the extent of suicide.

Sindhoor is gifted by Adi to her as a token of his support and partnership. She does consider it as Sita mayya’s blessing.

Imli never cried her grief? 🤣🤣

And how exactly is she even aditya's wife? There marriage is not even legal.....they were both married at gun point and neither of them wanted this marriage

So suddenly her forced husband is her whole life now?

And didnt aditya himself said it...what ever happened in PD was wrong and illegal...

In his own words he considered his marriage with Imli illegal....which it is in every sense

So how does it even make Imli his wife? It is Imli who wants to hold on this forced marriage....and nicely chucked Malini out of T house...talk about being manipulative

Originally posted by: gopi2929

Imli never cried her grief? 🤣🤣

And how exactly is she even aditya's wife? There marriage is not even legal.....they were both married at gun point and neither of them wanted this marriage

So suddenly her forced husband is her whole life now?

And didnt aditya himself said it...what ever happened in PD was wrong and illegal...

In his own words he considered his marriage with Imli illegal....which it is in every sense

So how does it even make Imli his wife? It is Imli who wants to hold on this forced marriage....and nicely chucked Malini out of T house...talk about being manipulative

I said she did not cried her grief to others.

Yes their marriage is legal. It is certified as legal unless of one of the parties protests against it in the court of law and a judge nullifies it. I can say this as I am a law professional