OS: Laila, Through Her Own Eyes. - Page 2

It is because of you that I absolutely love Laila, who has got to be the most controversial character in the RR universe. I love her but I hate her, you know? I guess all the hate comes from the high expectations I had originally for this character. I blame all this on your Yesterday/Tomorrow series. I just loved how she was portrayed there, a woman so in love with this flawed man, whom she accepted as is, with no questions asked. She gave up 8 years of her life for him, to please him and care for him as a woman would do for a man. Yet, in the end, he chose another not because she was flawed in any way, but simply because he did not feel for her as she did for him. It's all so tragic.

The Laila on the show, just...to be frank, pisses me off. Her character has so much potential! I love Ankita Sharma in this role, so I have no problem with the actress. She is fantastic with her facial expressions. The mere moments of vulnerability and softness she shows when she sees Rudra makes me empathize with her and reiterates that she is NOT this uber-villian, but rather a woman so in-love with the man she has been with for many years.

I love how you make Laila human, someone relatable. Like you portrayed in your story, Laila most likely came from nothing, and emerged as this hard-ass, no-nonsense woman. We've seen her interactions with Mohini in the show. She's one tough cookie who can hold her own against someone like her.

If Rudra saved her from an impossible situation 8 years ago, Laila may have a strong sense of hero-worship and devotion for him. Rudra is, I think in many ways, part of her identity. She was his informant and his lover for a number of years, he gave her purpose and suddenly he "abandons her" for another. I can see where her anger is coming from. She portrays her feelings to the extreme, be it love, hate or anger.

Thank you for writing Laila in this way. This was fantastic!

Originally posted by: Oldestfan

Napster, I remember this story well. I think it was one of the first posts that humanized Laila and asked for justice for her... In the minds of your readers! Even when she shot Parvati, she did it with honest Intent... To harm her and through her, harm him. It was almost like she was living out her dharma.

However, the way the show has turned, Laila degenerated from being the woman betrayed, from cast off, to being a vicious scheming marriage breaker... One who manipulated Paro and Rudra and is currently playing on Paros vulnerability.

Your stories had clean lines.. Paro surrendered to Rudra completely, Rudra took over Paros love, life, her very breath. They are a universe unto themselves in the arc of Y&T currently. Paro has the luxury of feeling compassion for this woman, of making up tp her for her husbands cruelty. Laila was not her husbands soulmate, and she took what she could get, paying extraorinarily high prices for stolen moments... Soul crushing prices. And Paro got that. She understood it completely.

Your eight minutes conversation between Paro and Laila was searingly beautiful. Paro perhaps did not heal her completely, but soothed the pain of Lailas soul in that one.

The Laila of the haldi scene was your Laila. She was wronged, she had tehraav. I remember wondering at the seeming ease with which they closed her story. I had hoped against hope that her re entry would be for a revenge worth seeing, for a conspiracy. But no, she grasped Mohinis petty and self destructive plans and motivations with both hands and threw away the dregs of her pride to become a true wh**e. The Laila slithering through the haveli today is a marriage wrecker, a deluded snake, who is willing to break down the emergence of light within Rudra, to haul him back into the hell. Because she does not want to be alone in there. She self sanctifies her desire by calling it love. In the real world, she will never get it back. Because he has seen what light can do. And instead of running to the dark now, he will run towards the light.

I know that I am a little exalted in my idea of love, but over the years, I have found that that is the only way it can be!