Shivani is the antithesis of Mansi... a little jhalli... very boisterous and naughty... and not at all conscious of her feminity. Mansi would sometimes try to get her to dress a little feminine... do her hair properly... paint her nails... but Shivani would be so uncomfortable that she would walk around with a pained look and a plastic smile. Though Shivani herself has never fallen in love... or had romance in her life... but she believes in romance... and love being the only reason why two people should marry. She is totally against the concept of arranged marriage.
Mansi is an all rounder... good at studies, singing, debating... the model student and child... at home and outside. Her middle class background has trained her to always live by the rule book... she believes that girls are home-makers... so their role in life is to get married, bear children and make a happy home... always keeping the family together. She totally believes that when it comes to choosing a life-partner parents always know the best. And so she subscribes to arranged marriages as opposed to love marriages. According to her when a girl and a guy are seeing each other they only show their best sides... one cannot make that the basis for a marriage.
Anup is a loner and an introvert, he doesn''t open easily with anyone except with Netra, his cousin sister. He was sent by his mother to her maternal uncle where he got educated and finally managed to become a pilot because he loves flying, above the crowded world of his joint family where he got unfair treatment by his Badi Ma Raj Laxmi who always denied him the same advantage that she gave to her own children Bhushan, Sahil and Netra. All because his own father Gautam was a loser and a failure. He would have left the joint and lived away with his mother if he could, but Manjula did not want to break the joint family. His relationship with Mansi is uncomfortable and awkward because he had lived most of his life alone and even while working, he rarely came home and stayed in hotels more often. He has been an outsider to his joint family.
