Tara Khanna
She comes from a modest family. Working as a secretary for the industrialist-son Adil Khanna (Jim Sarbh), she slowly carves her way up the social ladder by sleeping with Adil — who was engaged at the time.
Adil marries Tara and she adapts well to the new rich life, but the class anxiety remains. For this, she always falls back on her close friend Faiza Naqvi, who knows the vocabulary, styling, and etiquette of the rich. From a “really sweet new girl in town, super simple, a bit rough on the edges, but soft” she becomes “styled out, branded from head to toe … shiny and hard, like a diamond.”
The first half of the show throws up a twist which moves your sympathies towards Tara — Adil and Faiza are having an affair, which Tara finds out about. Adil promises to never see Faiza, and they patch up.
The second half of the show throws up another twist that moves your sympathies away from Tara — that her lust for social climbing actually made her leak the sex tape of her and Adil that caused him to break his engagement and court her, instead.
By the end of the first season, she goes into a bathtub wearing all the jewels she owns, because why not, and then pools all that jewellery into a bag, rushes out and escapes, leaving Adil, and heads to the Made In Heaven office. She is heading for a divorce and will be using the jewellery to rebuild the office.
