Originally posted by: Annu.
Avni as a kid was left with her grandma as kid while her parent for job shifted to america.So as kid she was shown lonely growing up with her grandma who use to read her stories.When grandma was unwell they thought of taking her back with them then she showed sign of anger since she didn't want to go was taken forcefully.Basically she was fascinated abt stories.More in books and stories
ML was shown ancestor of kings family.When she hears manju's story she started showing more interest.Manju and her lover met in king organized functioned they fall in love but old king liked manju her beauty and dance..... he came to know abt manju and lover going to runaway on durgastmi he called manju to perform Dance on same day he killed shashidar infront of her and later locked her up to get married...... the day of marriage manju hanged herself and ended her life and left a letter that she sworn her aatma won't let any king live in that palace.After that kingdom faced destruction and they performed ritual and looked 2souls in that room.
She as a manju was shown more interested in that sharad prahlad poet and lecturer guy there was a scene where she was trying to force her on him.But only when she is more of manju.He was shown as FL fav poet since she had his books too even before she become manju 
And ML and FL were shown happy together.
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