‘Daayra’ allowed me to discover inventive, social territory I had by no means explored: Meghna Gulzar

Mumbai: Filmmaker Meghna Gulzar stated her upcoming thriller ‘Daayra’, starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran within the lead roles, took her into unexplored inventive and social territory, whereas permitting her to look at the shades of gray that exist inside people and society.

Meghna, daughter of cinema icon Gulzar, shared a word on ‘Instagram’, saying that she has explored these shades of gray in her earlier movies, together with ‘Talvar’, ‘Raazi’, ‘Chhapaak’ and ‘Sam Bahadur’ however ‘Daayra’ turned out to be one thing else.

“‘Daayra’ took my creativity to areas I’ve by no means explored earlier than. It took my social consciousness to reaches I didn’t know I had. As a pupil of Sociology, I discovered that our life and our society should not binary. It’s not simply black and white. There’s a spectrum of gray that we exist in. In my journey as a filmmaker, by ‘Talvar’, ‘Raazi’, ‘Chhapaak’ and ‘Sam Bahadur’, I’ve cherished exploring that very gray inside characters and throughout the world they and we stay in. ‘Daayra’ for me, not solely explores that gray… It invades it… It makes an attempt to dismantle it,” she stated.

The movie stars Kareena as DCP Ajooni Kohli and Prithviraj as DCP Raman Kumar who usually discover themselves on reverse sides of a fragile line between legislation and justice.

The filmmaker additionally stated that the movie modified her understanding of her residence metropolis of Mumbai and the nation she thought she knew nicely. “I used to be born in Mumbai. Having lived right here all my life and having travelled extensively throughout India, I assumed I knew a lot of the metropolis and the nation by my life’s journey to date. However the journey of ‘Daayra’ took me to unseen and unvisited locations. And that’s simply the geography,” she stated.