Playing Alisha Khanna in Gehraiyaan was challenging and exciting; Deepika Padukone


By Rajesh Ahuja

Amid the praise and accolades coming her way for portraying Alisha Khanna in her latest film Gehraiyaan,  Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone says that portraying the character of Alisha was challenging as well as exciting for her as an artist.

Talking about the film in the latest issue of Filmfare,  Deepika Padukone
said,'It was a character I had never played before. One we’ve never seen in Indian cinema before; flawed, human and relatable.”



Deepika Padukone says that playing Alisha Khanna in Gehraiyaan was challenging as well as exciting 




Deepika said that humanising Alisha Khanna, infusing empathy and to portray her sans the lens of judgement, was the most challenging and exciting part for her as an artiste.

“I also had the opportunity to get to know Shakun at a personal level before he offered me the film,”Deepika Padukone said.

Streaming on Amazon Prime Video,  Gehraaiyaan revolves around Alisha Khanna (Deepika Padukone) a 30-year-old yoga instructor, who’s in a six-year-long relationship with Karan Arora (Dhairya Karwa). Karan has quit his lucrative job in advertising and is struggling to become a writer.

Then, there's Zain Siddiqui (Siddhant Chaturvedi), a real estate developer who's engaged to Alisha's cousin Tia Khanna (Ananya Panday). Alisha and Zain start an affair and life's never the same again for them all. However,

Gehraiyaan is more than just a story about infidelity. Director Shakun Batra has dwelled on the larger picture of strained relations, dysfunctional families and how childhood trauma leaves everlasting scars.

In the  latest  issue of Filmfare,  the stars of the film  spoke in length about their individual experiences while shooting the film and how they overcame some of the challenges.

Talking about his experience,   Dhairya Karwa said,'the script is such that when you go through it, you look forward to playing certain scenes. I would just let the clutter out and focus on my co-actors.”

Ananya Pandey said she identified with her character Tia.

“I didn’t feel that way during the course of the narration. I realised it when going into the scenes and that’s why I had to go more inward when it came to this character,'she said.

Speaking in the latest issue of Filmfare,  actor Siddhant Chaturvedi shared the story of his real-life heartbreak.

  “I was with this girl for four years but we wanted different things in life so that didn’t go well. That was really heartbreaking because I had to choose between love and ambition,'he said.

Gehraiyaan released on February 11, 2022 on Amazon Prime Video.


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