Originally posted by: Gwiwer
The unborn child bit is wrong, because that would make Malini and Imlie only a year different in age not 9 years. It would appear by her fairly recent confession that, like Malini, Anu claimed to be pregnant when she wasn't. That hasn't been developed - but she said it twice. She lied to force him back when he had actually fallen in love with Meethi. That's why Anu suggested the idea to Malini in the first place.
He is bitter because he came back and didn't have the guts to go back to Meethi again, and later he told her he stayed home as he had a little girl, Malini, but she was NOT the baby spoken of, the ages do not tally.
I don't believe Dev used Anu to boost his career either. She fell for the romance of an artist and throughout the serial she has used his name to boost her status, at tons of meetings and events, usually to get at Adi and/or Imlie.