Alya is a character which is highly underestimated now. She was passive , happy in her own bubble and knowingly ignored the reality because it helped her preserve her identity and family -fab5. Among all the material things, fab5 friendship has been the only real thing for her.
She became passive, pleasing and closed because of her relationship with Manik that is because for her - she has got what she was suppose to have. She closed off to new experiences and just had a static approach to life. But now as she is away from him, she is like a butterfly exploring new relationships, herself and feelings.
I used to think that she was with fab5 because of Manik but that is not true. These guys have been friends from childhood. She has a separate equation with each one of them. They might have been over-powered by her relationship with Manik. So we never saw her bond with others, because her thing with him was her identity. Like how Dhruv-Manik equation supersedes their riendship with others within fab5 . Or Mukti-Cabir fun bonding.
But now we can clearly see that she is close to Mukti- they have a good bond, agreed because of her age and maturity age she is not capable of understanding what Mukti is going through, but the girl is getting there and growing each day. She has been the only one who has reached out to Dhruv and basically told him the truth. This might have had an extrapolation for her but now she genuinely is helping him see the light.
Musically - I feel individually for every member of fab5 music has been the thing that has connected them inspite of everything. If for Manik- it is passion , for Dhruv- it has some security, Cabir and Mukti - an escape and probably for Alya -music was the only real joy.
With respect to Nandini, I feel Alya would at best be cordial after a point. There would always be an awkwardness because Alya is Manik's ex and Nandu is his subsequent love of life- a position Alya thought was hers. But I feel years down the line they might become more friendly. But Alya is not obligated to be Nandini's friend and vice-versa. There has to be no forced friendship here and that will not speak less of either of the two women.
Edited by charminggenie - 10 years ago