When has Mangala not been appreciated?😕 I have read loads of posts on this forum appreciating Mangala. It is not necessary for everybody to appreciate her with the same intensity. She like everyone (especially including the "so called lead" Anandi), also has some shortcomings. Why can those not be discussed openly. Every character has certain positive and not so positive traits.
Fact is that an increased closeness between Mangala and Nimboli has been shown only ever since Kundan's second wedding.
Prior to that incident though Mangala was around, and they had friendly interactions, like she had with Kamli, but Mangala was never able to shield Nimboli from Harki and Akhiraj's wrath like she did yesterday.
I remember when Chagni went to her village, Nimboli used to sleep alone in the room she shared with Chagni. That was the time Mangala perceived Kundan's less than noble intentions towards Nimboli. She said she would sleep in Chagni's room with Nimboli. And she gave Nimboli that knife. But she did not warn Harki and Akhi because she had no right over Nimboli.
Now all of a sudden Nimboli is sleeping in Mangala's bed.
Harki too has mellowed down towards this change in relationship between Mangala and Harki because she has a new DIL. Else she used to warn Mangala to keep out of her affairs wrt Nimboli.
While Mangala saved Nandini's life, she is also responsible for her child marriage.
She is behaving within the confines of her own understanding of life.
Earlier she perhaps never had any need to look for a support system outside the house. Now she perceives she has one. She is just scared to use it. Pretty normal. Fear of the unknown.
As far as appreciation goes, in fact in the last four months post leap, Anandi has been at the receiving end from everybody for everything she has done. She just has to appear on the screen (which is rare enough) that criticisms start for her losing her daughter, laughing, smiling, not crying enough, being insensitive, not looking for her daughter 24x7, dressing well, combing her hair, wearing lipstick 😉 to name 1% of the complaints against her.
At the end of the day these are characters created by writers out of their imagination. Actors enact only those aspects for our benefit that the channel, writers and producers want to show. For the rest we have become past-masters at interpreting and filling up the gaps using our own imagination.😊
