Chhoti Si Zindagi

Role:Chetna Aunty

Jasuben Jayantilaal Joshi Ki joint Family

Role:Jasumatiben
She is the 62 years old wife of Jayantilaal. She is the one that binds the family together and is the real head of the family. She is an intelligent, caring, and strong woman and loves taking care of her husband in each and every aspect. Her entire life revolves around him and her family.

Laagi Tujhse Lagan

Role:Aayi Sahib

Mitwa

Role:Mahaviri Pundir
Sensible and traditional. Having spent a long time in the Pundir family, she knows exactly how to keep the family together. She has a stern face and never lets her emotions show. The years of adaptation have made her realize that the traditions are more important than life. And she has devised a way to live with it. She knows that going against it won’t do anyone any good. She learnt that when her daughter was killed. So she knows that they have to find happiness from other things. She knows everyone in the family inside out and thus knows what each of them wants. She loves everyone but never shows. She has a special bond with Raghav. This is what Mahaveeri Pundir really is. But she has a faade that she adorns in front of the rest of the world. To the family, she is seen to be Mamchand’s reflection. Like Mamchand takes care of everything outside the house, she does the same inside the house. She is strict, and to the members of the family, she is seen to be a believer in female foeticide (although in her heart she is not) and a follower and upholder of all the traditions and norms that are a part of the society and more so, her family. Mahaviri’s softer side will be seen only by the audience. They will know that mahaviri is stern because of a certain purpose but she has a heart of gold much unlike her husband mamchand. To everyone else, she is also seen to believe in capital punishment and that erring is not human but deadly. But in her solitude, we know that she does not like it or support it but has accepted it as part of the culture that prevails and thus has no say in it. So when she is faced with the situation where mamchand orders mayuri to be killed, she approaches him and with an ebbing hope asks him to spare the life of the child. She asks him to grant her this favour in return of all the years that she had dedicated in serving him. But mamchand in response raises his hand at her saying all these years of service were of no use now since she had the audacity to question him. His word was greater than the word of god and nothing could change that. Mahaviri cries remembering the same incident that happened with her baby daughter. But when she steps out of the room in front of the family, she puts on her façade yet again and remains a mute spectator, thereby showing the world that she is party to her husband’s decisions in upholding traditions. This will in effect break the trust that Sargam had start developing in her. Sargam will thus never share anything about mayuri’s truth with mahaviri.