Why Meghna Gulzar's Daayra makes for a gripping theatrical experience
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Daayra has rolled out in cinemas, with positive reviews and word of mouth pouring in from audience. But to understand what makes Meghna Gulzar’s latest movie gritty and real, it is worth looking at the filmmaking vocabulary she has developed across her career.
Adding to this, Meghna Gulzar on the sets of Daayra. From Talvar and Raazi to Chhapaak, Sam Bahadur and now Daayra , Gulzar has repeatedly gravitated towards stories where individuals collide with institutions, where personal choices have larger consequences, and where the answers are rarely as simple as they first appear.
Meanwhile, A National Award-winning filmmaker, Gulzar has created a distinctive space for herself in Hindi cinema. Her films may span murder investigations, espionage, acid attacks and military history, but beneath these very different subjects lies a consistent preoccupation: the individual within the system.
Notably, She is less interested in creating straightforward heroes and villains than in examining what happens when people are placed in circumstances larger than themselves.
As per the latest buzz, In Talvar, based on the 2008 Noida double murder case, Gulzar refused to turn a complex investigation into a straightforward whodunit. The movie moved through conflicting investigative perspectives, making uncertainty itself part of the drama. Starring Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma and Neeraj Kabi, Talvar found its tension not just in the crime, but in the fallibility of the systems trying to uncover the truth.
In further updates, With Raazi, Gulzar entered the familiar territory of espionage and patriotism but approached it through the deeply personal journey of Sehmat, played by Alia Bhatt. What could have been a conventional spy thriller became a story about a young woman caught between duty, identity, family and conscience.
On top of that, Even the people on the other side of the border were not reduced to convenient villains. They had families, relationships and vulnerabilities. That choice gave Raazi an emotional complexity that went beyond the conventional language of patriotism and war.
Sam Bahadur presented yet another challenge. A movie about Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, played by Vicky Kaushal , could have rested comfortably on military achievement and national heroism. Gulzar chose instead to look behind the legend. His humour, relationships, personality and idiosyncrasies became as important as the uniform and the battlefield.
Source: Hindustan Times