Malika's Love for Armaan

I think throughout the show, we saw her love for him change in many ways. At first, she was this possessive girlfriend, but really did love him - she always stood by him, no matter what Aryan said, and always backed him on everything. I feel bad for Malika in the beginning b/c though she loved him, I don't think Armaan ever truly loved her in the same way. I think he was just accepting the fact that he was to marry her - but always went looking elsewhere for true love (and might I add - in the wrong places...).

When she saw Jassi and Armaan getting closer, she became even more possessive, and she perhaps began to see Jassi as a threat - she saw her Armaan slipping out of her hands. Was this fear linked to the fact that Armaan was her only connection left to the Suri family? Though they treated and thought of her as one of their own kids, did she think that if she lost Armaan she'd lose her family too?

In the end, I think Malika's character took on a similar shade as Purabs. Acquiring Armaan became a big game for her. She never could accept that Jassi was in possesion of Armaan's heart. She was never happy with the fact that Armaan was happy with someone else. I don't know if she still loved him or not at the end. I think she was just obsessed with the fact that she had to beat Jassi at this game of winning Armaan. I think somewhere, somehow, her love for him turned into anger towards his "bewafaai", and that led to this completely different personality that had to get revenge. But even then, she never meant to hurt Armaan - she wanted to hurt Jassi for taking her Armaan from him. In the end, she hurt Armaan unknowingly...

Even when they were married for that short time, she knew that Armaan loved someone else, but still, she lived with that, and tried to make the marriage work. It was Armaan's own fault that he married her out of anger - she didn't deserve at all later to be insulted by Armaan the way she was.

To answer my own previous question, I think she really did love him. Her love however, turned into an obsession, and then got the best of her. She was unfortunate to have made some stupid decisions and she was selfish in her love. She tried to hold on too tight, and therefore caused it to slip out of her hands.

Upon reflection, I feel bad for Malika. No matter where her love stemmed from, no matter what her reasons were for trying to hold on to Armaan, no matter what stupid decisions she made - despite it all, she loved him...but perhaps not enough. Jassi loved him more as she was ready to let her love go. Malika couldn't do that - she couldn't make that sacrifice. It doesn't mean she didn't love him...as I said before, she was selfish, and thats probably the only reason Jassi won in the end. She just couldn't love him as much as Jassi did....

Sorry that was so long - had to get my thoughts out! :)

Love,
~Payal

I agree to some of your points. But I saw it from her perspective and it made complete sense to me. I had already written that but I dont mind writing it again.

Her parents died when she was young. She was practically raised by the Suri's as their own kids . From their early age , it was decided that Arman and Mallika would get married , also Arman too was going with Mallika at that time and even proposed to her on his fathers farewell party, she too accepted the same unaware that he was doing it to keep her vote so that Aryan wouldnt get a chance to become the chairman.
she loved him with all his heart and he too pretended to do the same , she knew that he had many girlfriends yet she knew that he would always come back to her in the end and it was and had been the case all the while. She however was insecure as He was all she had and she would lose her only family.

Mallika would lose everything if she lost Arman however the same cannot be said abt Arman infact she had nothing to lose as she knew Arman was already engaged to Mallika , she had great parents, great friend. Arman loving her back was a bonus infact , I infact didnt approve of her vying to get his love and attention and getting all upset when he went with Mallika. Now when I see the same episodes, I feel more sorry for Mallika as she had everything to lose , although love cannot be forced yet I feel Jassi did come in between them, she always interrupted them , she supported Arman in his fraud activities which Mallika refused to do as it was wrong in her eyes to commit fraud , so Arman naturally felt more inclined as Jassi blindly supported him in everything whereas Mallika didnt. Jassi didnt even imagine Arman loving her back, she loved him knowing very well that he was engaged to Mallika , she supported him blindly coz of his love and once she found he was lying, she exposed his fraud and left.

Mallika was a classy woman which was proved when she refused to support Arman in buying cheap smuggled materials as she respected Puru a lot . She also threatened to resign when Arman was unfair to Maddy . She handed over the rose to Jassi saying that whoever had the first right deserved to get it , she advised Bindiya when she was going through a crisis abt her husbands affair, she also suports Maria-veeru and that scene was very touching coz thats when she realises that for the first time she lost her love forever and Arman was going away forever.

she disliked Jassi coz she always came between them and Arman trusted Jassi more than her. She was always good to everyone else as long as they were following the original.

whatever happened after the makeover was total crap and they just made it as a typical masala k-type serial and thats when JJKN was ruined already. They spoiled every character so I wont even take that into consideration.

In BLF however, its Mallika who clears the air between Arman and Jassi in the climax , she does it when arman's mother asks her to do it for the sake of the family and inspite of everything that Arman did to her , she goes to Jassi and speaks on behalf of Arman . i was so pissed off when they ruined her character , Mallika was truely a character with grey shades but she was classy and very dignified in the original atleast.h

I liked the character of Mallika as well.I never hated her and i really adored her when knowing that Armaan was never herz she tried to work out the marriage 😊 . She acted as a typical biwi preparing breakfast for her hubby,taking details of every single likings of Armaan. She was always honest abt her marriage but Armaan never loved her back . before he was madly in love with Jassi and after 5th august he sang bewafai tunes.

It was Mallika who lost everything from own family,to love to own life 😭 . Right from childhood she had dreams of becoming a part of Suri family so it was obvious that she wud go insane if someone else came in between. She hated jassi because she had always interrepted in her and Armaan's relationship.
Like Tina di says she had always supported Armaan in the wrong works whereas mallika never supported the fraud activities of armaan,that doesnt mean she never loved him 😕 . When you love someone it doesnt mean you will have to do support ur beloved in fraud activities as well.
i too feel mallika never deserved this sudden death,she was always with Armaan but jassi left him after she knew that she was cheated. The way mallika's character was butchered really feel punching the tumbo dumbos 😡

Mallika was a character with many colors. She was good and bad in many ways. She loved Armaan, but it was one sided and she shud have supported his love for Jassi and made them be together if she really loved Armaan. She cud have gone in the lines of "If you love something set it free ,If it comes back to you its yours else it never was. "I think the character of Mallika wud have lived if she had united Armaan and Jassi after their wedding was called of for the first time..

Cant take anything after august into consideration...

Armaan and Mallika were to loved each other but never meant to be...
It wasnt enitirely Mallika or Armaan;s fault for the eventual break up...
It was circumstances Situations and matter of the heart.Armaan wasnt supposed to fall in love but he did and even Armaan himself connot control feelings such as love...

To him jassi was a game but turned out to be the biggest game of his life as well as other concerning him....

And at last we cannot measure love..and anyways the third angle in a story never has to be bad...But the third angle here was jassi not mallika...But ultimately Armaan chose jassi .

Mallika did loved Armaan initially,in fact she claims to love him from childhood days even though their childhood days were never shown 😕 ,but she always wanted to advertize her love for Armaan in front of the world which Armaan never liked,and Armaan could never trust Mallika as she was Aryan's sister and he always hated Aryaan,and then when Jassi came in his life,he shared his deepest secrets with Jassi which made Mallika insecure and jealous and from that day onwards her love for Armaan changed into a game of winning and loosing,she wanted to win Armaan from Jassi which made her selfish and negative and later towards the end her game turned into an obsession

jyothi06 u r absolutely right, mallika loved arman truely from the begining but after show knows about arman & jassi love also she was jeolous that arman had love jassi over her, so that latr become obession

Originally posted by: jyoti06

Mallika did loved Armaan initially,in fact she claims to love him from childhood days even though their childhood days were never shown 😕 ,but she always wanted to advertize her love for Armaan in front of the world which Armaan never liked,and Armaan could never trust Mallika as she was Aryan's sister and he always hated Aryaan,and then when Jassi came in his life,he shared his deepest secrets with Jassi which made Mallika insecure and jealous and from that day onwards her love for Armaan changed into a game of winning and loosing,she wanted to win Armaan from Jassi which made her selfish and negative and later towards the end her game turned into an obsession

I totally agree with you

Originally posted by: jyoti06

Mallika did loved Armaan initially,in fact she claims to love him from childhood days even though their childhood days were never shown 😕 ,but she always wanted to advertize her love for Armaan in front of the world which Armaan never liked,and Armaan could never trust Mallika as she was Aryan's sister and he always hated Aryaan,and then when Jassi came in his life,he shared his deepest secrets with Jassi which made Mallika insecure and jealous and from that day onwards her love for Armaan changed into a game of winning and loosing,she wanted to win Armaan from Jassi which made her selfish and negative and later towards the end her game turned into an obsession

I disagree, she loved Arman truely. Maybe her ways of expressing would have been different from a "shy innocent " Jassi but she loved him allright. See again whatever happened post makeover I am not even considering it coz if u look at it, everyones character went for a toss, Jassi acted really dumb going to visit Purab in nainital before her wedding, inviting CJ inside the hotel room , runing away without any explanation, Arman slept with Mallika, everyone's role was butchered so Mallika's wasnt different either.

If u remember , when Jassi shows the cards given by Arman aftter exposing him in the board room , its Mallika who breaks off the wedding, Arman again under Raj's influence patches up with her before the board meeting for his selfish reasons . It was Mallika who broke off the wedding when she comes to know the games he played with her and Jassi . So she was a classy woman in love who got nothing but betrayal and injustice.

She disliked Jassi coz she always interrupted them and always supported Arman blindly which she couldnt and wouldnt and rightly so. She disliked her but as far as winning goes , she wasnt even aware of JandA's behind the back romance until after the board room meeting , it was sad that she was fooled again and again by both.

Bechaari how excited she was showing the wedding cards and searching for apartments and Arman and Jassi were playing around right behind her all the while with both lying to her . When Mallika senses that Arman was going away from her and this time he was serious, she asks Jassi whether there was someone esle in Arman's life , Jassi lies again when she could have told her everything.

Anyway , I think both girls were used by Arman but I think it was Mallika who lost everything and Jassi gained everything. Her getting Arman's love was a bonus as she never even dreamt that would happen and never expected it too.