Gehraiyaan - Official Trailer | Deepika, Siddhant, Ananya - Page 15

Originally posted by: springkissed

Siddanth and Deepika have good chemistry. It looks like he suits slightly older actresses in terms of chemistry because he has 0 chemistry with ananya. Film looks interestingly shot, just wondering if there is anything more to it besides the cheating angle. Idk what is Karan Johar's obsession with cheating, he is obsessed with justifying and romanticizing it. If there is more to it than that though, might be worth watching.

Karan Johar does seem to be committed to the idea of justifying cheating and adultery. Maybe he, subconsciously, tries to convince others and himself that there is inherently nothing diabolic about adultery and cheating ; it seems to be an effort to assuage his guilt on some past events.

Writers, creates often do that. Sometimes they use their characters to alleviate their feelings of guilt, sometime they mete out harsher punishments to their characters in proportion to their lapse.

George Elliot was notorious for punishing her heroines in her novels. Critics used to say she wanted her heroines to pay for her moral lapse.

Originally posted by: columbia

well said!!! In fact I think most directors don’t know what is Indian anymore. They just build on their own sensibilities. Farnham Akhtar’s DCH, Zoya Akhtar’s DDD, ZNMD, Ayan Mukherjee’s YJHD are all built on their lives and friends, however they find ways to keep the language, the grammar of the film urban and yet relatable for many. They hire Hindi dialogue writers, who have finesse in the language.

My irritation with this trailer is no doubt the overuse of English, but also the thematic set up which can’t be relatable to 97% of India. Meeting your cousin on a Yatch!!! That’s where the rich kids do drugs make worst life choices!! 🙄 Moreover, DP bs claims like there has never been a role like this in Indian cinema, dude you are cheating on your husband, believe me there have been enough stories and roles like this. Adultery was a theme in parallel Hindi cinema in the 80s - Ek Pal, Arth, Libaas, Astitva, Maya Memsaab, Masoom. All of them deal with adultery through a woman’s lens. But the problem is Shakun, DP a never watched fabulous Hindi cinema, they watched flaky YRF and Dharma movies and Hollywood.

Another reason could be that Farhan Akhtar, Farha Khan, Karan Johar are hardcore Hindi film fans especially the 70s stuff. They grew up on the stuff and they still play homage to that. Zoya is probably the only one who's more leaning towards the Hollywood dynamic. But even she did a great job with Luck By Chance. The real Hindi film nut in the industry has to be Sriram Raghavan who included so many nods to so many different Hindi films from all decades in Andhadhun. Simi is obviously a reference to Simi Gareval who kills her husband in Karz. Tabu wants to have a sequel to her iconic character "Nurse Radha" where she escapes the lunatic asylum. Obviously a reference to Waheeda Rehman's character from Khamoshi. It is great fun discovering more hints on every rewatch.

And yes, meeting your cousin's fiance in a yacht is out of the norm in the Indian context. And for all that Deepika's character is whining about how her cousin's life is so different from hers, she seems to be her equal in clothes and accessories. At least the middle class relatives in Dil Dhadakne Do looked the part.

It is obvious that none of the new crop the foreign trained actors or script writers or directors have not seen a lot of Hindi films made before the 90s. There was a time when Hindi films made all kinds of films for all kinds of audiences -masala, parallel, art house, dealing with serious topics like addiction, suicide, adultery, mental illness, caste inequalities. Somehow the spectrum narrowed in the 90s. And you get snobs who'd rather look towards Hollywood for guidance and hence alienate their target audience.