Actor Deepika Padukone has mentioned that the reactions that her movie Gehraiyaan has attracted from audiences was utterly ‘surprising’. Directed by Shakun Batra and co-starring Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday and Dhairya Karwa, the movie debuted on Amazon Prime Video on February 11, to polarizing response from audiences and critics.
In a brand new interview, Deepika mentioned that she was shocked to see what sure viewers had picked out as speaking factors in regards to the movie. Talking in regards to the reactions which have highlighted the movie’s therapy of psychological sickness, she advised Bollywood Hungama, “I don’t think we ever imagined that it would be received like that.”
She continued, “A number of the issues which can be being picked up by the viewers after watching the movie, they weren’t meant to be a lot of a speaking level. But what’s attention-grabbing is that they’ve develop into that organically. People are selecting up on this stuff. Now, are issues that we have been conscientious of after we have been making the film? Of course. Having had a lived expertise with psychological sickness, was I acutely aware of the way it was being portrayed? Yes. But it isn’t just like the movie is about that. It’s one of many threads… In reality, it isn’t even a thread, it is a backstory, or one thing that this character is coping with. But there’s a lot else occurring…”
Although Deepika made it out to be like Gehraiyaan has been universally acclaimed, that isnt the case. Producer Karan Johar and Shakun Batra have addressed the polarizing reactions that the film has attracted, and not too long ago participated in a roundtable dialogue with critics to debate what did not work within the movie. “We have been speaking, Karan and I, earlier than the film got here out, and we knew that there have been going to be opinions. We knew there could be polarizing opinion, however I by no means knew the dialog would get right here, and be this large,” Shakun mentioned.
Also starring Naseeruddin Shah and Rajat Kapoor, Gehraiyaan has been praised for the performances of its solid, however has drawn criticism for its third act tonal shift. Criticism has additionally been directed at advertising that misrepresented the film.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
