Nearly all people who has lived even for a short time in Mumbai has a narrative about being caught within the streets, waterlogged with rainwater. And Deepika Padukone is not any completely different. The actor, who can at the moment be seen in Shakun Batra’s Gehraiyaan, revealed whereas talking to Mashable India that like many Mumbaikars, she was additionally amongst these caught within the harmful 2005 Mumbai floods that killed greater than a thousand folks.
“I got stuck in the floods. In 2005, I was in an acting school in Juhu. Once when we got out of the class, we realise that the whole area was completely submerged. Me and my friends, we walked in the middle of the waist-deep water. I used to live in Andheri, and I couldn’t go back home as the whole area was flooded. My friends were kind enough to offer me to stay the night because they lived close by. Having said that, it took us almost 2 to 3 hours just to go from Ajivasan to Linking Road.”
She added that she and her mates had been strolling alongside the divider. “Obviously, it was scary because there were live wires and manholes. But yeah, it was a great experience,” she joked.
Apart from Deepika, Gehraiyaan additionally stars Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday, Dhairya Karwa, Naseeruddin Shah and Rajat Kapoor. Deepika made her movie debut with 2006 Kannada movie Aishwarya. But it was her Bollywood debut with 2007 romantic musical Om Shanti Om reverse Shah Rukh Khan that turned her right into a family title.
Since then, she has given acclaimed efficiency in movies akin to Bajirao Mastani, Piku, Chhapaak, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela, amongst others.
Meanwhile, Gehraiyaan has obtained blended reception. The Indian Express’ Shubhra Gupta wrote in her assessment, “This foursome should have been a throbbing hot mess, emotions spilling out from tightly-reined-in histories, searing us. Director Shakun Batra proved himself adept at mining painful complexities in ‘Kapoor & Sons’. ‘Gehraiyaan’ doesn’t dig deep enough; it is too designed and choppy. The tangle of scantily clad bodies in bed, the electricity between two people who can’t keep their hands off each other: we see all of it, we don’t feel enough of it.”
