Hardworking Lass

I am a Neil Bhatt fan and I thoroughly enjoy when he is on-screen. But this post is dedicated to the hardworking girl Ayesha.

When I had first seen the promo of this show, I was not interested in watching it. Even though I am Neil's fan. I haven't watched many of his shows. (I know, I am a great fan, thanks). I am digressing😆

Anyways. I was not interested in the show initially because I thought it was a typical love-hate show and the female lead is going to hate the male lead because she thinks he killed her Dad. They are going to get married because the male lead would want to take revenge or something. They will keep on hating each other for nothing and the more they hate each other, the more they will show romance to keep the viewers hooked. At least this is what I inferred from the promo😆

I was shocked when my mother told me that the problem regarding her father's death is already done and dusted with. I was like say what😲

But I still didn't watch the show. Then I saw a few Sairat moments here and there. I liked them. I was like yeah! They do look good together. I was smiling and laughing. But I was not interested enough to continue. I went to my parents' room for something or other and found their scenes once or twice and even though I liked them, I went back after the purpose I went there was complete, not stopping for them.

Then I watched a zillat arena scene😆 It was my first time watching a show where the female lead did not restrict herself from giving it back to the abusive in-laws in a way they understand😉, Instead of giving pravachan like aap ki galiyan bhi mere liye ashirwad hain aur aap ke taane prasaad. Aap jitna mujhe torture karenge, main utna hi apke kadmon mein girungi taki ek din aap mere mann ki achchhai ko samajh lein. Tab tak main tyag aur balidan ki moorat bankar apna sarvasva aap logon par nyochhavar karti rahungi aur jo cheezein main nyochhavar karungi unmein sabse pehli cheez hogi mera atma-samman😳

I was used to female leads who will listen to everything silently and sacrifice the smallest things like their jewellery to the biggest things like their kidneys and their men😆

And here was a female lead who was not self-sacrificing. Who had once tried to take her own life and now values her own life enough to not let anyone hurt her pride and to give it back in the same way she got.

It was this character that made me look forward to the episodes and made me wait religiously for this show. Gradually other things started to matter like Sairat, Virat, and other family dynamics.

And now, it is the actress that has made me contemplate on all these things and made me make this post. I know, she is being praised already for all the hard work she put into those dance sequences. But a little more praise won't hurt, would it?

Ayesha Singh, take a bow. I am not a dancer. But I do admire dance and dancers. So obviously I would love watching Neil dance. But knowing that you are a non-dancer who not only tried but pulled off these performances really well, my heart fills with appreciation. While I was watching those performances, this thing was at the back of my mind that you are a non-dancer. I wasn't really looking forward to the dances because I didn't like the bedroom dance of Sai with Virat. I liked his dance individually. The Mukabla sequence. But I didn't really enjoy their dance together. A non-dancer often brings down the energy of the performance while dancing with a dancer. The exact thing happened in the bedroom dance of Sairat. So I wasn't really keen on the seven performances. The only thing I was excited about was that I will get to see some romantic Sairat dance. I have seen non-dancers perform before and it has always been a disaster. They would cover up their non-dance through editing or the song they are given is some slow romantic song, the non-dancer really doesn't have to perform on. But I was pleasantly surprised that they included songs where both of them really had to dance. And her lack of dancing skills was not covered with zoom out of her expressions or editing. She really had to perform. And she did. She did it really well. Those difficult steps of Tamma Tamma amazed me and that chemistry in Dhoom tana made me so happy.

Her hard work really paid off. Even though, I wasn't completely happy but I enjoyed it nonetheless. In those moments, I did not see Sai. I saw a very hard working girl who gave her best and despite being with a brilliant dancer, let nothing deter her. Immense respect grew in my heart for her when I watched those clips.

Ayesha, never lose the hard-working spirit in yourself. I pray you get the best in life and keep shining like sun, shining in her own light and illuminating her surroundings with her light.

God bless ❤️

Dancing with a dancer like Neil, it kind of already gets you anxious..How do you match his energy..How do match his steps.. .How to even match him.. Happens with me a lot of time..

She is indeed a very hardworking girl..She has the most number of scenes, the most number of dialogues in the show and yet she works hard on them, instead of taking time off.. She is dedicated to her craft and its showing. Even I was not very excited about the dance.. However I enjoyed it...specially how she emoted. My favourite was Dhoom tana tana.. Kudos to Neil for supporting her thoroughly.

Originally posted by: asmi_joya

Dancing with a dancer like Neil, it kind of already gets you anxious..How do you match his energy..How do match his steps.. .How to even match him.. Happens with me a lot of time..

She is indeed a very hardworking girl..She has the most number of scenes, the most number of dialogues in the show and yet she works hard on them, instead of taking time off.. She is dedicated to her craft and its showing. Even I was not very excited about the dance.. However I enjoyed it...specially how she emoted. My favourite was Dhoom tana tana.. Kudos to Neil for supporting her thoroughly.

My favourite was Dhoom tana too😳

My admiration and respect for Ayesha increased ten folds after the dance sequence. Like you said non dancers bring down the energy of a dance, even if the other dancers are good. I was kinda assuming that dance won't be that great. But Ayesha proved me wrong on so many levels. The energy was so upbeat, she didn't let her hindrance show up. She was so good with the expressions as well.

Ayesha is a hardworking girl and that is quite evident with every episode, like if I see initial episodes, her acting was quite meh. But now it's fab. Emotional scenes in the initial episodes were very thanda for me wrt Ayesha's acting. But now I literally feel all of Sai's emotions.

Kudos to you Ayesha. May god bless you with all the happiness, health and success.❤️

Another Neil Bhatt fan here, for whom I started watching a family-drama-oriented show like this which I normally don't😆 I've watched Gulaal and Dabh only. But Gulaal is enough for me to admire his acting skills and become a fan forever

And coming to your topic, yeah Ayesha, wow 👏she's very good, so talented that she makes us feel for Sai every time without fail. She also seems to be a complete package of looks, acting talent and now dancing too. Her expressiveness is so good. The scene I really loved her performance when she had to express a combination of emotions is the scene where Virat comes to apologise for holding her hand and then stopping her from having dinner. That scene wow, such mix of emotions, she just nailed it amazingly. Absolutely enjoying her performances in every episode. After this dance episode, she's proved she can do more than acting. So talented. ⭐️

Originally posted by: cheekukabeej

Agree with everything you said. She is really hardworking and it shows.

My favourite was Dhoom tana too😳

You have to see her awkward dance with Neil during the launch and how she did not know the right twirl..From there to here...

I ❤️ this post and will be back ASAP!!!!

I'm back... after a 13 hour workday! pheww!!

Cheeku, this is such an excellent write up. Really.

As you know, I am a very recent entrant in the forum, and started seriously following the updates recently. But I first got hooked to the serial once I somehow saw an insta clip of the "I'm your family" dialogue of Virat.

I was shell-shocked at the emotional power he was able to convey, and even more, by the sheer rawness I saw in the girl who was opposite him. That is only word I could come up with, "Raw". This was no polished actress, delivering lines, whatever she was saying seemed straight from the heart.

I didn't know the details of the actor either, except that I had seen him around, couldn't remember, since the last serial I watched was way back in 2012, IPKKND. Period. Haven't watched anything on ITV since then. And now, this made me look around, saw that I had seen clips of him from a few other serials, and a movie I saw a little of on youtube with subtitles...

But the sheer power of that scene made me go watch clips, then moved to watching episodes here and there. And what I saw, was pure magic.

A man and his eyes... a calm Male lead, and a firebrand girl, who gives back double of what she gets, no doormat-ness, no feet-licking gratitude, no worshipping the patidev.

A slip of a girl, going toe-to-toe against an IPS officer and a gang of familial goons! The rawness remained, and things that I found weird, like voice modulation and pitching, grew on me... it became the identity of a 19 year old girl... and realised hiw perfect it was! A teenagerr is awkward, unsure, raw... and what I saw as inexperience, suddenly became the perfect rendition of a role, which could have gone very bad if in the hands of an older actress, a more experienced actress.

The perfect match. Neil exudes Calm, and Ayesha, onscreen, pumps out energy, no matter how sweet and laid-back she comes across in interviews. The innocence is real, the goodness of both is real, else it wouldn't translate on screen... the ego would come out in the eyes.

And so, I'm in deep.

Now, the dance. The man is incredible, we know, we expect much, and he delivers. Impressive, that.

I am a classical dancer, and am someone petrified of contemporary - all the leaps and gymnastics required. In spite of being trained, if you told me to dance against this man, I would curl up and die. But the girl, the sheer guts it would have taken, i can feel it in my bones.

She has come a long way, see it in the voice modulation, the way she carries herself, the ease of emoting, in her eyes... but still the fire, the rawness, the freshness, the naivety, the innocence, the lack of worldliness,... that Sai is... is still there!

The complete opposite of what Virat is!

Truly, they have hit jackpot with the casting!

Oh well I had many reasons not to give it a try when the promo came out.
1. Neil's face and acting, I really disliked. 🤣
2. Didn't know any of the female leads and both looked so similar. My mind was confused who was who as I suffer from recognizing faces (face blindness). 😳
3. Story looked same old, a man stuck with to women.

But youtube kept showing me SaiRat scenes. 😡 Na aate samne na yeh dekhne ko padta aur na fan bante. And I kind of liked their chemistry. When I saw Sai shoving him after her Aaba's death, it made me want to watch it bad. 😒 Kyun yaar ? Why did I watch it ? Because after watching not only did I become Ghum and SaiRat fan but also started loving Neil. 😳 Lanat hai mujhpe. 😳

But I also discovered Ayesha. Her offscreen IVs were so much fun to watch. And it's for the first time I really watched almost all the IVs of an actor. 😆 And her acting was so good in most of the scenes unlike so many other shows were acting is usually missing. 🤣 Even till Holi week I thought she is a terrible dancer. But that offscreen dance of her with the choreographer surprised me. She has improved quite a lot. 👏

I think that muqabala song. She wanted to show that she didn't want to dance but Veeru was making her dance. 🤓

But coming back to Ayesha, she is a very hardworking girl. And professional too. No bakwaas, no drama. Just shoot, keep learning and have fun with everyone kind of person. 👏

Originally posted by: asmi_joya

You have to see her awkward dance with Neil during the launch and how she did not know the right twirl..From there to here...

Couldn't agree more. To be honest I started watching only for Sai.Tgat masala grinding revenge on both Kareeshma and Didi caught my attention in instagram 😆

I didn't like the promo either for that matter Ayesha. I wasn't really keen on watching Neil doing similar role because he had played cop before.

Must say Ayesha is presenting a better version of herself in every passing time. She is a nondancer but thoroughly she managed to put it together and looked so graceful 😳