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Dear Zindagi Holds Up A Mirror To Life
This is the story of Kaira, a budding cinematographer in search of the perfect life. A chance encounter with a maverick therapist helps her gain new perspective, as she discovers that happiness is all about finding comfort in lifes imperfections.
Dear Zindagi Cast: Alia Bhatt, Shah Rukh Khan, Kunal Kapoor, Ali Zafar, Angad Bedi, Ira Dubey, Yashaswini Dayama
Dear Zindagi Director: Gauri Shinde
DEAR ZINDAGI STORY:
Kaira (Alia) is an astute cinematographer who is bohemian in her approach to life. Enter Dr Jehangir Khan (Shah Rukh), a top-notch therapist, who helps her lay her innermost demons to rest.
Dear Zindagi Review:
In a scene from the film, Alia who is heartbroken, bites into a green chilli. As her eyes cloud over, she looks at her best buddy Fatima (Ira Dubey) and says — “the chilli is pungent.’’ Tears, silly fears and frailties all part of the life process. So brave it we must. This kind of sums up the life lesson writer-director Gauri Shinde’s second directorial film imparts.
But unlike her first film English Vinglish that hit the bullseye subtly, here the message is hammered. Of course some of the writing has merit. There are funny and clever one-liners. There are numerous analogies drawn to explain the innumerable relationships one encounters in today’s fast-fleeting urban life. Some of this makes you chuckle, some of it makes you cry. So far so good. However, the first half of the film meanders, making you restless. Frankly, things actually begin to look up just before intermission when SRK, without his trademark outstretched arms, makes an appearance.
As said earlier, the protagonist played by Alia flits like a butterfly from Raghuvendra (Kunal) to Sid (Angad) and later to Rumi (Ali). And there is a backstory to show why she is so messed up. Honestly, her angst bites to some degree but not entirely.
To analyse why she is the way she is, Alia makes an appointment with SRK a DD (dimaag ka doctor) in Goa. It is on his couch that she is able to voice her fears. As he meticulously picks up the pieces of her past and ‘pieces’ her together, the film allows the viewer too to confront some of their own anxieties. So it isn’t all in vain.
Feisty Alia, one of the better actors of the current generation, turns in a nicely nuanced performance. And SRK in his sober-avatar possessing infinite gyaan tempts you to seek out a therapist. If you’re in the mood to do some soul-searching this weekend, this film could do it for you.
Alia plays an affable Kiara. She has the same problems so many of us have. We’re used to making peace with the words ‘slut’ (muted in the film), ‘fast’, because the world throws them at us sans any consideration or care. Kiara symbolises all of us 20th century women, portraying on screen our problems with a rawness probably only Alia can. All good things about Alia aside, her character gives you a major sense of deja vu from the last bit of her screen time in Highway. There are those repressed feelings, the messages of letting go… too familiar, too many times.
Shah Rukh brings on screen his inimitable charm, giving himself completely to the director. Khan knows when to step back and let Alia take the lead. You want more of Jug’s wit and ability to listen. The supporting cast comprising Kunal Kapoor, Ali Zafar, Angad Bedi, Ira Dubey and Yashaswini Dayama do their job well.
Gauri Shinde does a half-decent job with Dear Zindagi. The director, whose English Vinglish was a landmark film and did not leave you without a smile or a tear, seems oddly laid-back in Dear Zindagi. Maybe we began expecting too much from Shinde after her first film.
Dear Zindagi scores a few brownie points on the emotion front. However, when the film has emotions as its driving point, it comes as an unpleasant surprise when it can’t even do much there. The light-hearted dialogues and scenes are the high points of the film. But they too stop working after a point. At near-2.5 hours, Dear Zindagi feels too stretched.
Amit Trivedi’s music is light and breezy, keeping in tune with the way the film has been shot. Love You Zindagi is a likeable earworm.
“Genius is about knowing when to stop,” says Jug in one of the film’s best scenes. Maybe Gauri Shinde should have taken his advice and stopped before Dear Zindagi began taking a toll on people’s patience.
Watch the film for Alia Bhatt and Shah Rukh Khan. It’s an emotional joyride which won’t harm you when watched once.
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