Initially, Ayesha was this tough, smart and fiesty girl who was fiercely loyal to those that she cared for. She had her faults but she was far more realistic, relatable and modern than too-good-to-be-true,angelic Princess Prachi ever was. Even her prickly, flirty relationship with Milind rang far more true than Prachi's fairytale romance with Neev. Don't get me wrong, I love Prachi's character and am a die-hard Michian but I think most of us are far more like
the old Ayesha with our fair mix of good and bad Whereas very few of us can claim to be like Prachi. The Ayesha character had the potential to be just as intriguing and complex as Milind instead of this cartoonish vamp.
Remembering the old Ayesha, I still have some sneaky sympathy for her. I think, the real villain in all of this is Inder. Inder did not chose Premlata over Amrita, he chose Prachi over Ayesha. He stayed in his marriage because he could not lose bear to lose Prachi even if it meant sacrificing Ayesha.Looking at things this way, Ayesha's bitterness (though not her actions) towards Prachi seems understandable. Fine, even if he chose to stay in his marraige, he still
had some responsibility towards his child. Even, if it meant secretly providing financial support, he should have done something, anything. Instead he left them completely on their own. As their ever been a more abandoned child than Ayesha with an absent father and a mentally unstable mother. Not even Milind has had it this tough in that respect. Ryka wrote an excellent post yesterday about how Milind actually took Inder's place in Prachi's life. Well, I think the same is true for Ayesha. Once again Ayesha lost the most important man in her life to Prachi. She has seemingly lost at every turn in her life and it always seems to be Prachi that she has lost to.
Ayesha should know, even if she does break up Michi, Milind will never truly be hers. Fake one night stand notwithstanding, Ayesha knows better than any one Milind is a one-woman man. Even though, he was the heartthrob of the chawl, he only ever had eyes for Ayesha and now that he is committed in marriage and more importantly compeletly in love with Prachi, he is not going to look at another woman. Her character is not being butchered because she is trying to destroy Prachi's marriage, in fact that will be in keeping with her character's thirst for revenge but because her motivation for doing so seems to be to snare a man who has no interest in her. The old Ayesha would have had too much pride for that.