Actually, I don't like all this bashing of Alia that recently culminates...
Okay, she may not be (intellectually) educated, she may do/say stupid things in real life, she may take wrong decisions, she may get carried away with her feelings, she may want to give a certain image of herself and her marriage...but none of us is without flaws and wrong decision making.
I still think that she is a good actress when well directed.
Of all movies I watched with her only Brahmastra was a disaster and I think it is because of Ayan and his own feelings towards Ranbir and the fact that Karan 'forced' him to take Alia because she absolutely wanted to make a movie with Ranbir ... (and somehow I bet, Karan hoped to distance Ranbir from Ayan through Alia and that backfired in many ways)
Of course, nobody will openly talk about it, but I guess that Karan parted ways with Ayan because of all that... Ayan had already proved that he can do very good movies...Brahmastra - especially the writing part - was far below his abilities.
Ayan started as an assistant in Swades (and I bet his working got SRK's attention), then he was assistant in KANK (and I bet he got more than Karan's attention), then Karan gave him the opportunity to do Wake up Sid which made Ayan fall in love with Ranbir...etc, etc....
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