Gehraiyan (गहराईयाॅ)

"Gehraiyan (गहराईयाॅ)"

Watched Hindi movie 'Gehraiyan (गहराईयाॅ)'. 

This film is directed by Shakun Batra. Produced by Hiroo Yash Johar, Kara Johar and others. Written by Shakun Batra, Ayesha Devitre, Sumit Roy, Yash Sahai. Music by Kabir Kathpalia, Savera Mehta. Cinematography Kaushal Shah. The film stars Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Pande, Dhairya Karwa. The film runs for 2 hour 28 minutes and was released in Feb 2022. I watched it on Amazon Prime with Aditi on 13th Feb 2022. 

Deepika's father quits the family business, leaving it to his brother, and settles in Nasik. Her mother finds the marriage suffocating and commits suicide. Fast forward to present day. Deepika, a yoga instructor, is in a live-in relationship with an aspiring author for six years and the relationship is going nowhere. Her cousin Ananya and her boyfriend, Siddhant, come to Mumbai and they all meet. Sparks fly. 

Who is attracted to who? Is it reciprocated? What are the obstacles? Will the love win?

Deepika plays the protagonist whose story threatens to emulate her mother. She is stuck in a loveless relationship. The depth of her feelings is unfathomable to the man in her life. She does well in acting department, has a great physique but doesn't really look young any more. Siddhant plays an ambitious businessman, risen from humble background, who is torn between love and what he needs to do to avoid bankruptcy. He depicts his transformations well. Ananya plays a foreign educated girl who is a willing party to an injustice but who is also a little innocent. But she needs to improve acting. Dhairya plays the budding author who takes his partner for granted. 

This movie contains a lot of intimate scenes between Deepika and  Siddhant. They are a little too much and revealing by the Hindi movie standards. It may become embarrassing to watch with children. Deepika and Siddhant do the scenes without inhibitions and the chemistry is sizzling. 

The story is slow and even predictable. The death gives a twist to the story. It's difficult for a director to determine how to end such a movie. This director decides to do it plainly rather than trying to shock the audience again.

It's a subject relevant to modern times. But one wonders, if they were married (instead of being in-live in relationship) would the story have gone on same path or would it have ended differently?

Positives: Deepika-Siddhant chemistry.

Negatives: Excessive use of F*** word. 

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