Alisha (Deepika Padukone) is into a live-in relationship with Karan (Dhairya Karwa) for 6 years but feels claustrophobic now as she has been supporting him financially for a long time. Alisha has had a traumatic childhood, and faces depressive manoeuvres at times, resorting to Valium often. When Tia (Ananya Pandey), Alisha's first cousin, visits their family home in Alibaug with her fiance Zain (Siddhant Chaturvedi), and invites Alisha and Karan over to spend the weekend together, Alisha gets an opportunity to settle her longstanding score with Tia. Zain, who was also looking for a breakaway from his obligatory engagement with Tia, seizes the opportunity and commences on a passionate and steamy affair with Alisha. Both are committed to dumping their respective partners and build their future together, but fate has other plans I store, setting off a series of unfortunate events that spiral out of control quickly, creating complex situations that challenge loyalties and the very commitments that brought Alisha and Zain together.
Gehraiyaan is a drama noir that combines passion, love, lust, revenge, financial crime, and tragedy together into an overwhelming vortex that consumes all the characters. No one escapes unhurt as self-gratification takes over centrestage, and the two principal characters are ready to sacrifice everything else to meet their own goals. To some distance, they try to achieve this objective symbiotically, but after a while, Zain realises that Alisha is at best a huge problem to handle when matters go out of control. The issues in Gehraiyaan are all first world types - often pointing to a life lesson to keep relationships clean and be grateful, but director Shakun Batra has chosen depravity, moral decadence, and uncontrolled passion to erect the backbone of the film, throwing the protagonists' characters into an abyss of an unabashed, self centric catharsis.
Watch Gehraiyaan you must, because it is a very unique story content with a heavy second half filled with unexpected twists and turns that make you take sides often. But it leaves a deep sense of disturbance that's likely to trouble you for a couple of days as you'd still want to ask why people cannot hold on to relationships and show some patience, but that's besides the point. Deepika is amazingly emotive in her complex role of Alisha, and Siddhant Chaturvedi slams home the point of an entrepreneur who will stop at nothing. Ananya Pandey and Dhairya Karwa are passable, and Naseeruddin Shah is sadly wasted. The music of the movie is something that I cannot remember much of as the songs didn't create a recall value, but I must laud the fluid cinematography by Kaushal Shah that takes beauty to a different level.
Gehraiyaan is a drama noir that combines passion, love, lust, revenge, financial crime, and tragedy together into an overwhelming vortex that consumes all the characters. No one escapes unhurt as self-gratification takes over centrestage, and the two principal characters are ready to sacrifice everything else to meet their own goals. To some distance, they try to achieve this objective symbiotically, but after a while, Zain realises that Alisha is at best a huge problem to handle when matters go out of control. The issues in Gehraiyaan are all first world types - often pointing to a life lesson to keep relationships clean and be grateful, but director Shakun Batra has chosen depravity, moral decadence, and uncontrolled passion to erect the backbone of the film, throwing the protagonists' characters into an abyss of an unabashed, self centric catharsis.
Watch Gehraiyaan you must, because it is a very unique story content with a heavy second half filled with unexpected twists and turns that make you take sides often. But it leaves a deep sense of disturbance that's likely to trouble you for a couple of days as you'd still want to ask why people cannot hold on to relationships and show some patience, but that's besides the point. Deepika is amazingly emotive in her complex role of Alisha, and Siddhant Chaturvedi slams home the point of an entrepreneur who will stop at nothing. Ananya Pandey and Dhairya Karwa are passable, and Naseeruddin Shah is sadly wasted. The music of the movie is something that I cannot remember much of as the songs didn't create a recall value, but I must laud the fluid cinematography by Kaushal Shah that takes beauty to a different level.