He plays a lot around (extreme) close-up shots that just pop to capture the emotions of the characters. Kaushal Shah’s camerawork lays down to be the bridge for us to walk into all the characters’ heads & hearts.
From Deepa Mehta in Arth to Ritesh Batra in The Lunchbox, we’ve seen writers exploring infidelity and Batra tries his hand by beautifully weaving the chaos caused in his leads’ personal lives interlinked with their professional mess. But for a hopeless romantic sucker like me, this is witnessing a seamless mosaic-like life of four people getting demolished, with their chaotic upbringing playing an important role in doing so. I also understand why many won’t connect with the emotional core of this one, will call it a ‘dialogue-heavy’, ‘slow’ film because this doesn’t give you whatever you ask for from the menu, it serves a tale of infidelity sprinkled with a whole lot of depression, and that’s a dish many wouldn’t want to feast upon. That’s where the beauty of this script lies for me, even if you can’t connect with the characters, on the whole, you could find a bit of yourself in every one of them. I’ve been a person who has over-loved in his life, been used as a doormat by many, also have taken those people for granted who mattered. While deep-diving into Gehraiyaan, I just couldn’t help but notice how despite the ‘class difference’, I’ve been a bit of every character Batra has penned with Ayesha Devitre, Sumit Roy & Yash Sahai. Gehraiyaan Movie Review Out! (Photo Credit: Still From Gehraiyaan) Gehraiyaan Movie Review: Script Analysisīack in the day, director Shakun Batra’s Kapoor & Sons beautifully dissected the drama of a dysfunctional upper middle-class family and we all lost our minds. Amid the personal & professional mess, the lives of all four characters drastically change. The chaos begins when Al asks Zain to confess their relationship to Tia. Tia & Karan, unaware of the same, continue to love their partners as passionately as before. A family reunion with cousin Tia (Ananya Panday) on their old farmhouse introduces us to T’s fiance Zain (Siddhant Chaturvedi) & Al’s boyfriend Karan (Dhairya Karwa).Īlisha finds the incompleteness of her life getting filled with Zain and they start seeing each other after that trip.
We land into Alisha’s ( Deepika Padukone) head when she was a child, witnessing her parents’ internal disputes and now that she’s grown up to be a Yoga instructor, how her childhood still affect her.