Gunvanti Mansen Goenka

GUNVANTI
Age: 45
She is "Gandhari" of Mahabharata. Gunvanti got married to Mansen and shared a very good relationship with Kumud (her mother in law) but a very grave relationship with her husband Mansen, particularly when she finds pessimistic stance of Mansen in Dharam's case. Gunvanti is also very kind to her daughter in law Shefali (Yuvraj's wife), Nisha (Vikram's wife) but shares a bitter relationship with Kamini (Aksh's wife) which is because of Kamini's nature.
She is humane towards Shakuntala (Kunti). They have a special kind of relationship between them, (devrani-jethani) which was not high lighted in Mahabharata. Kumud, Shakuntala & Gunvanti at one point of time show alike kind of feelings. Gunvanti has earned respect from Shakuntala and her children because of her good nature.
Basically, the fights between Mansen and Dharam and their son have never affected the relationship between their wifes. This has helped in keeping the house together. This depicts the potency of female characters in Mahabharata and in our serial too.
At one point of time her husband Mansen decides to live apart from Dharam and his family, but Gunvanti opposes this, there by leading to a war of words between her and Mansen. Gunvanti basically believes in truth & certainty but has to follow her husband at times and there by can't poise herself between truth and untruth.