Gehraiyaan

Adultery, thrill, crime, drama, love (meh?).....nothing seems enough to carry this modern day version of 'kbhi alvida na kehna' None of the scenes seem to capture the essence of emotions; the viewers find it difficult to connect/empathize with any of the characters. Definitely a strech in terms of the length. It's time Bollywood brought us better versions of urban modern love stories.

Honestly expected so much as the film had Deepika padukone in the lead & is directed by Shakun batra who made Kapoor and sons. Gehraiyan begins on a decent note but loses the plot almost immediately.

There is no build up to things and events start happening for effect(can't reveal more as that would give spoilers). Story does not go anywhere and the affair scenes become repetitive. Relationship complexities, traumatic past dont evoke any emotion as they are wayward. Too much focus on one character.

The sub plot of financial, corporate issues makes it worse. Just when you think story is headed somewhere, comes a turn which is so bizarre you can't wrap your head around it. Last act is illogical.

Songs, deepika's acting are nice. The Look of film is good but what use is all that when film fails overall!

It is all way too convinient, and ending is so abrupt. Seriously disappointed!.

The only objective of making such a movie is to showcase human emotions. This movie doesn't justify adultery or say cheating is cool. Worse, it doesn't do anything much at all. Shakun Batra does well with good cinematography. His attempt at bringing in a Sam Levinson-Luca Guadagnino type work into scenes is appreciable, much like Kapoor and Sons. So is Deepika's and Siddhanth's acting. But why cast Ananya Pandey? Her acting is so bad, she always seems like a clown in a board meeting.

Besides, there are glaring loopholes in the story. How does Zain run away from home, still manage to study in the US, scale up quick enough, return to India as a board member, start his firm, and still be young? Zain has no family? Why is Alisha onboard with cheating so quick? What is the cliffhanger even supposed to convey? 5/10 only for Deepika and Siddhant's acting, the cinematography, the music.

Doobey has been creating waves for weeks before the actual movie released and it's commendable that the person who edited the music video made the movie seem exciting. But it was far from it, none of these characters had any actual motives for acting the way they did. None of their actions seemed to fall in line with what was previously established about them (which wasn't much to begin with) The so-called "deep", "complex" backstories each character had fell flat too since they seemed to come off as excuses rather than actual explanations.

The dialogues seemed so off, I found myself questioning whether people actually talk like this. Maybe an OTT release is subjected to comparatively low censorship but does that mean the word "f-ck" gets thrown around like confetti in every dialogue? It just comes across as lazy writing.

I was hoping there'd be no glorification of infidelity and we'd be able to at least empathize with the characters for cheating on their partners. None of the problems they faced were beyond the ordinary and didn't justify their motives to cheat. Are we supposed to believe that actual grown-up adults approach their problems like 16-year old's?

I wouldn't blame the actors for the bad performances since it was evident that they weren't given too much to work with anyway. All of the glitz and glamour, none of the substance.

Well everybody acted very good ... Excellent.. director did amazing job with mediocre crime petrol story ....

All these years we as audience wanted Bollywood sud make Hollywood level movies so what our dharma producers thought... In Hollywood married super hit actress does all these adult scenes... Let's do that ... That's Sharma's Bollywood reply to Hollywood ... All acted well but why they needed Deepika for that ... I mean Deepika sud do movies which assures produces a great return ... Like high budget experimental movies with action etc ... Any way we will never make good scale movies not atleast by dharma as they are too mediocre in their talent.