In a streak of not so matching trailers and movies, witnessed a trailer grow into a movie just as supposed to be.The movie delivers just the same that it inspires via promotions.
The movie starting with title credits to Alia Bhatt before Sharukh khan, taking prominence of character in the movie over stardom is good for any movie industry. Kudos to Gauri shinde for bringing out the depth in a lighter way.The Music by Amit, cinematograpghy by Laxman Utekar is fresh, and flows like a breeze on gentle evening beach. Alia Bhatt as Kaira, is just too good with her expressions and emotional delivery. She looks so at ease on screen as one would be without cameras. Shahrukh Khan as Jug, carries the responsibility of being a therapist and the pain that lingers from his own personal life with his experience as an actor.
Talking of the movie, Dear Zindagi is one of those movies that make the viewer relate and introspect, A movie that is to be watched with yourself and you alone. Though the movie takes time to settle in with the backgrounds and justify the situations, it delivers a whole lot of perception with its little detailing. A slow, deep dig at all those overriding emotional journey is what Dear Zindagi is all about.
Right from Kaira forcing herself out on various situations to masking her emotions just to make her look invincible and to escape the deep lying self, the movie more than justifies how emotions can be overwhelming and interesting in an unique way. The plot points out on how instances can turn a person from who he / she is to what he / she pretends to be, irrespective of how small or how insignificant it may look for rest of the world. These instances can range from being humiliated for getting low marks in primaries to being neglected and over riddden one’s thought in the name of stereotypes. Dear Zindagi is a well compiled set of frames that try to unearth the complexities of emotions that web together in forming a person as a whole. It digs through the complex comfortable thrones to find the hard to digest base that forms the core.
Dialogues being simple and strong has an astounding impact. A few to quote (In the Verbal sense, since my Hindi is not that good to re – create).,
“If sadness, anger, hate are not allowed to express, how do one express love”
“Kaira : What do you think of a perfect relationship?
Jug : There are many kinds of perfect relationship. A perfect musical relationship, that happens with two people of same musical liking. A perfect just coffee relationship and so on. Then why do carve and we have to burden a relationship expecting it be the only perfect relationship.”
Personally, the movie felt very close to me where I could relate both Kaira and Jug’s viewpoints to things I do to me, to my life and to people around me at various instances. The decisions we make, the perception we develop, the emotional maze that we build, and last but not the least restricting to comfort of the couch., all relates to the views of either Kaira or Jug.(Atleast it did with me) To the movie to strike, it would require one to be either in a state to accept or in a state of themselves. Dear Zindagi would give different perceptions based on the situation and persons emotions while watching it.
#DearZindagi – Emotions is all
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