Shakun Batra’s Gehraiyaan, starring Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday and Dhairya Karwa launched on Amazon Prime to polarised opinions. While many referred to as it a ‘home noir’ and praised the movie for its darkish undertones, others felt that it was totally too uneven and fragmented, with a peculiar twist within the second half. The movie takes a deep dive into the darker aspect of recent relationships, and explores totally different sorts of bonds between individuals within the movie.
Talking to Film Companion, Shakun stated that he felt a ‘cognitive dissonance, initially, owing to the contrasting opinions. He additionally talked about the abusive e-mail that he obtained the place an individual threw cuss phrases at him saying that he should not have made the movie. Yet then again, there was one other psychologist who reached out to him asking concerning the purpose behind his characters, which introduced out extra dissonance. “I started to question of not just whether I am rational, but everyone who was agreeing or disagreeing, whether they are a rational. When I made the film, I wanted a conversation, about why the characters choose to make these decisions. Now this conversation is happening, I can’t choose to correct these conversations, it’s not my job to correct someone’s interpretation. That’s what it has become, and it is poles apart. I’ve to take it in, that the truth is all of it.”
Discussing whether or not Gehraiyaan was ‘home noir’ because it has been typically referred to as, Shakun defined that is why they stopped calling it so in the course of the advertising and marketing, as he was suggested towards it, and as an afterthought he was happy as a result of he wished to see how the ‘ surprises’– which implies a change in style midway via the movie—would land. He additionally opened concerning the complexity of the emotional scene between Naseeruddin Shah and Deepika Padukone within the movie, the place the obstacles are swept away between the 2 of them, and the way he mentioned the scene along with his girlfriend the night time earlier than they shot it. “I all the time knew it was a pivotal second, I shot this scene earlier—and it was a lot shorter, and my co-writer noticed the scene and stated we want this to go additional. So we did one other draft of it, I used to be sitting with my girlfriend and telling her about it, and she or he informed me issues that stayed on thoughts.” The scene was trimmed, edited, mentioned on numerous calls, and he stated that he was so nervous earlier than they executed the scene once more.
Gehraiyaan is streaming on Amazon Prime.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
