Originally posted by: Bluegrass
I sort of triggered this entire platform when I said that she's weaponised Malini in her embittered marriage ever since Imlie's birth, at least. She has been projecting her own bitterness and need for vengeance onto her for a long time. Malini really tried to break away from it, and that's why she was so hypersensitive about her relationship with Aditya.
Her descent into psychopathy is basically her succumbing to her mother's years of emotional manipulation
I’ve totally been noticing this. I didn’t want to comment because I don’t know much about the history of how they’ve interacted in the past but since I started watching I feel like Malini is just a pawn for her.
Anu herself is threatened by Imlie, she’s a constant reminder of the flaws and shortcomings in her own marriage. For her it seems as much about “winning” against Imlie as it is about avenging whatever slights against her she feels there have been. I dislike people that think like this - Imlie’s only fault was being born. She didn’t choose the circumstances under which that birth occurred - two consenting adults made a decision and the result was Imlie. Why should she constantly be having to pay for the sins of her parents?! But I digress.
Malini is also a pawn for Anu in her own revenge plot. In a way she too is a victim of her own upbringing and the toxic environment she seems to have grown up in. Her mother knew exactly the buttons to push. This doesn’t excuse her actions or behaviours though.
This is also why they’ll never be satisfied with Aditya and Malini’s wedding - because that wasn’t the point - that hasn’t been the point for a long time I suspect. The point has been to hurt and harm Imlie, but they didn’t count on Aryan and the Rathore clan to show up as her shield. To support her and pick her up. Their whole plan on destroying Imlie hinged on her being alone and broken. So as Aryan and Imlie begin to get closer, as Imlie becomes more independent and successful in her own right, they won’t be able to live with that and there will be more plotting.
Edited by PreetD - 3 years ago