India Had Not Seen A Film Like This: Deepika Padukone On Gehraiyaan

Deepika Padukone in Gehraiyaan plays the character of a woman named Alisha. The trailer of the upcoming modern-day romance film was released virtually on January 20. The teaser was released a while back and the viewers were hooked to the title track. The film is scheduled to release on February 11 this year.

The trailer opens with a back shot of Padukone's character Alisha sitting on a beach in Goa. It goes straight to how Alisha does not like it at home. Then swiftly takes us to Alisha's life and her boyfriend, played by Dhairya Karwa while introducing her childhood. Her character dictates and introduces the viewer to Tia, played by Ananya Panday. Tia is her cousin and the two had a similar childhood, then Alisha goes on to say how they have grown up differently and the scene cuts to a yacht, where Tia introduces her fiance Zain played by Siddhant Chaturvedi to Alisha and her boyfriend.

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The trailer progresses to show the hesitant closeness shared by Zain and Alisha. Then catches up to their infidelity in terms of cheating on their partners. But it is not a guilt-free conscious as Alisha in her subconscious mind retains the fact that Zain is her cousin's fiance. They continue their relationship and the sequence cuts to Tia realising that Zain might be in an affair. The trailer ends with a question asked by Alisha to Zain, "Are we just messed up people?

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Gehraiyaan is a modern-day take on the complexities of an urban-based ">relationship. How love is not as simple as the Hindi films show it to be, the trailer, as Karan Johar, the producer of the film said in the trailer launch, just scratches the surface of the film.

Padukone revealed during the launch how she ended up being Alisha in a Shakun Batra, directed and co-produced film. She was filming in London for the Kabir Khan film 83, in which she acted as Kapil Dev's wife Romi Dev and also co-produced. It was during that time when Batra flew down to London and gave her a narration for the film.

"It did not feel like a director narrating but a friend coming over. This script has evolved a lot. He had trusted me and I had faith in him. I never doubted or second-guessed his sensibilities," she said.

Johar said that Batra had become anxious when she did not reply faster to the narration. Then Johar called her and she agreed and said that the reason for the lateness was because she was overwhelmed with the script and it took her a while to process.

Talking about her character, Padukone said, "You have never seen me play a character like this or any Indian actor. India has not seen a film like this. This is really first. Batra has really being the observer and watching different kinds of people and relationships without judgement. Like Siddhant said that there is no reference point, so one has to really dig deep."

The film has been much-awaited since its teaser launch on Padukone's birthday with a short track of Tu Maarz Hai Dua Bhi... which has taken over the Instagram reels, short video feature of the social media. The film made the headline for giving credits to its intimate director, Dar Gai, making it the first Bollywood film to do so.