Gehraiyaan ( transl. Depths) is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Shakun Batra, starring Deepika Padukone, Ananya Panday, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Dhairya Karwa and Naseeruddin Shah.
A woman finds herself at a crossroads in life. Her six year relationship has grown monotonous and her career seems to have hit a roadblock. However, the arrival of her cousin forces her to confront a troubled past.
This isn’t a usual Bollywood flick and that’s one major reason for watching this movie. The tone is so cool, easy breezy. Gehraiyaan is slow and the pace is gained gradually only towards the end. The relationships portrayed are different and interesting. The way they’ve shown how childhood trauma affects a person onto their adulthood and how Alisha struggles throughout her whole life because of it was pretty relatable. Alisha is a beautiful character and Deepika has done her job so good. But Tia played by Ananya was more impressive because I wasn’t sure she could pull it off, but she did it so well.
The movie is filled with so much luxury. The lives, their costumes, the settings and stays, even their jobs. I doubt if this all ends up this way if it’s a reality. But I liked how they ended the movie. This doesn’t have a happy ending and that’s acceptable. How the conversations between Alisha and her dad grows and their relationship grows was one of my favorite part of the movie. The concept shown might be unacceptable to many, but it’s a good movie with no rubbish songs or fights but a few good characters with real sleek twists.
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Review by Abhirami Chandran
