Originally posted by: Apsvenky
I get where you are coming from. The reason I said that their journey will be similar is because both tried to reject a truth that was clear to them from day one - That Aditya was married to Imlie. Adi rejected it because he was committed to Malini & his pride & ego took a huge hit. Aparna is rejecting it because her social conditioning does not allow her to easily to accept someone below her social standing to be called her son's life partner. Both of them use their inherent issues to lash out at the easiest target - Imlie. While Adi's ego was hurt, Imlie had no hand in that and had even worse consequences to face than he did. It is actually easier for me to understand Aparna than it was for Adi. Adi lashed out at her and continuously broke down her self respect as a punishment for his bruised ego and self respect, for which she was in no way responsible. She had no one to turn to then and was continuously alone, as she could not even tell her own family about anything. She was in a much worse state emotionally then, than she is now. That time when she had no one, Aparna supported her and loved her like a mother, and even stood up to her son multiple times for mistreating her.
Aparna does not inherently believe in what she is saying right now. If she did, she would have never berated Adi for keeping Imlie out of his room, for whatever reason. The issue now is that Aparna is unable to accept Imlie as her bahu. Not because Imlie did something wrong, but because she is afraid of facing the society and defending her son's decision. She feels that society will judge them and she is not prepared to face that. So she is using every trick in the book to alienate Imlie to either give up or move on from her son. This means that she will not have to do anything and things will be back to status quo, including her behavior with Imlie. But now Imlie has a solid support system, with a lot of people behind her, biggest of which is Adi, who is willing to go against everyone just to get her the place she deserves. This makes Aparna feel even more like things are going out of hand, so she tries getting more vicious to convince herself and others that Imlie is not worth being with them because of her paidaish. She is trying to throw everything on the wall to see what sticks. But beech beech mein that façade slips, when Imlie tries to reason with her or reach out to that mother in her who is attached to Imlie even now. That is why she reacts exactly like Adi by bargaining with her, so that again things go back to status quo.
So while I agree that Aparna's redemption will be different to Adi's, she is also suffering like Adi was. Rejecting years of conditioning and mindset is the most difficult thing to do, specially when you are challenged on your belief system everyday. You know your conditioning is wrong, but most people do not have the courage to break it easily. Imle and Adi are right now trying to chip away at that conditioning to get back the purane T family who fell in love with Imlie and still care for her even today.