When we compare Sojal and Mansi, both are jealous and both are constantly plotting to get something they don't have. But still they are both as different as Right and Wrong, because it all comes down to one's Rights.
Sojal is jealous, when she doesn't have what should be rightfully hers. She is jealous of Aastha, because she gets all the special treatment, in spite of being a bahu like herself. Aastha gets the preferential treatment, though Sojal is the elder bahu. All this special treatment for Aastha was possible, because Shlok supported her until marriage and after marriage the circumstances were such that Niranjan was forced to give special privileges. Anjali and Aastha bonded much later. Aastha has no fault in all this, but its only natural that Sojal is miffed. It's another thing that, she did wrong deeds in jealousy, which she should not have done. She has to repent for them and redeem herself big time.
Mansi, on the other hand, is jealous of Sojal, who has a family, which she herself doesn't have. She didn't have loving parents growing up and as an adult she focused on her career, as she didn't care about marriage. That's all fine and it's her choice. But now that her biological clock is ticking and the man she is involved with is someone else's legal husband, she is worried that she will never have a family to share her good/bad moments with. Mansi is jealous of Sojal and is trying to claim Varad wrongfully, when she has no legal rights on him. What's worse is that she is so shameless to continue it even after knowing that she is wrong. If she has any sense of right and wrong, she should leave Varad, like Sojal did, and let him make up his mind and make amends.
I don't think Mansi is better than Sojal in anyway. She is as bitchy and as conniving as Sojal. Actually, she is much much worse, because she is using her management skills and her drive to succeed, in destroying a family. She may claim that Varad himself came to her, but all said, she need not be the reason for breaking up his family. Where is her conscience?! Her education and worldliness is totally useless, as she cannot distinguish between right and wrong. I don't think that housewives play any more petty politics than the working women. Or for that matter, I don't think women play petty politics any more than men. If that is so, there won't be any petty politics in the work places. I think, there are a lot of women like Mansi, who are confused about what they really want. She is a very real character. We see a lot of actresses, who settle as second fiddles to married men! I have seen many people, who have affairs at work places, though they are married. They are all educated, independent, career women, who have f**ked up sense of right and wrong. This is not at all an unrealistic scenario. It all comes down to a person's basic nature and their understanding of the Rights.
Edited by dsr11 - 9 years ago