@visa Satrupa can actually be a good mentor for Anami than a mother in real sense. That motherly thing which a child feels Satrupa has to know that in her childhood Pandithayan gave her that and she cannot take that place. And she should not try for it.
Satrupa as a person I dont think believes in snatching. But then in life only that was worked for her as she managed the royal steel. Also the need for power, she feels without power she wont be respected as her relation with baldev is not good. Maybe it would have been like that from beginning. As Satrupa any way was a marriage of convenience for Vikram.
Gayatri on the other hand has been a woman who has been respected and loved by Vikram irrespective of the differences between them. And she believes in feminine power that nudging which she does quite well. I feel Gayatri accepts the feminity in Satrupa when it comes to family, even the FB shows that way as Gayatri was telling Satrupa will have twins and was stitching socks for the new borns.
But she was, is not comfortable of the masculine aspect of Satrupa that ran Royal steel sidelining her son.
But now when it came to her grand daughter she is trying to manage it as she knows her DIL is not wrong. If she loses then it is the right of her grand child that will go for a toss.
Also I feel Gayatri has borne the brunt of indifference between Baldev and Vikram and she herself had told I didnt try to mend father-son relation. So maybe in Anami's case for the welfare of the family she wants to mend mother-daughter relation.
Also Anami is Gayatri's pride also. She has to convince her husband Anami is the right heir and not samosa chaap Avdhoot