12/02/2022
Gehraiyaan is a tale of infidelity, romance, relationships, childhood, and adulthood trauma that fails to captivate its audience as much as it was anticipated to. It is about ‘going with the flow’ and ‘your choices define your life’ but utterly lacks humor and even the tiniest bit of zing or entertainment. It falls flat even while attempting to lighten the deep, emotionally serious atmosphere.
The film is highly devoid of any ‘depth’ or flow. It starts with romantic relationships and infidelity while ends on valuation gaps, accounting structures and bad loans. See the connection? No, right? It is a story of a love affair that takes a horribly wrong and unexpected turn towards the end leaving the audience wondering what the hype was all about. Furthermore, the movie does not provide the much needed insight into all the four character’s: Alisha, Tia, Zain and Karan, lives which is highly in contrast to the so-called main agenda of the film: ‘childhood trauma’, ‘family and kinship ties’ and ‘deep, emotional storyline.’
The only reason anyone can and should invest almost two and a half hours of their time is Deepika Padukone’s impeccable individual performance. Her realistic take on portraying a character dealing with mental health issues has left all the audience in awe of her acting skills.
What disappoints the young audience more is that the movie promised a hot, throbbing chemistry between Deepika Padukone and Sidhhant Chaturvedi but failed miserably to deliver it. The relationship of an elder sister- younger brother perhaps suits them much better than forbidden lovers.
Ananya Panday, on the other hand, yet again failed to deliver an exceptional performance. It feels like her on screen acting has now ceased to draw a line between her real life and reel life personality. One can see absolutely no exceptional difference between the two.
Written by: Rida Shaikh
