Ash plays a bad poet - ADHM

They're complicated, without saying too much. And they are immensely progressive characters. I know that Aishwarya has never, ever played a part like this. She plays a poet who isn't a very good poet, and so she is aware that she isn't as respected in her community of poets. This is partly because she is too beautiful to be taken seriously and because she isn't a great poet. She comes from a situation of heartbreak herself.

Anushka comes from a dysfunctional family. Everyone has a broken hearted situation in some way. I have to say, though, that they are both incredibly strong and complex women characters, while being completely different in terms of character goals.

To answer your question, yes, the film is intense but the hand on the intensity is not self-indulgent. It is a film about unrequited love. So, for me, it is also a very internal film.

Twice in life, my love hasn't been reciprocated and I know what it can feel like. So that emotion runs through the film, it's not a cop out. We stick to the feeling of ek tarfa pyaar' as suggested by the dialogue at the end of the teaser.