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Mumbai, Jan 20 (PTI) Filmmaker Karan Johar on Thursday said his upcoming home production "Gehraiyaan" may appear as an infidelity drama but it is actually a deep dive into the lives of complex characters.Billed as a drama about "complex modern relationships", "Gehraiyaan" stars Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday and Dhairya Karwa.The film is directed by Shakun Batra, best known for directing the critically-acclaimed 2016 family drama "Kapoor & Sons", which was also produced by Johar through his banner Dharma Productions.The movie"s first trailer, which was launched on Thursday, offers a look at the complicated and chaotic lives of four characters, played by Padukone, Chaturvedi, Panday and Karwa.Johar said that the trailer only scratches the surface of the core story and the film has much more to offer."We are expressing our syntax, introducing you to complex, twisted and complex characters.
The trailer scratches the surface but there is a lot more than meets the eye."At the face of it you might think it is a film about infidelity-based relationships but it is not just that.
It is talking about so much more, choices and consequences of so much more,” Johar said during the virtual trailer launch event.The filmmaker said "Gehraiyaan" is one of its kind."It is a film that you have not seen.
It is a film about the power of love, lust and longing by the millennials and how they react to love, lust and longing and how it is about the choices that they can make.
Sometimes lust takes precedence over love, sometimes love takes the bashing for its innocence," Johar said.Batra said his film is quite different from past movies such as Shah Rukh Khan-Rani Mukherji’s “Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna” and Yash Chopra"s 1976 feature "Kabhie Kabhie", which also dealt with the theme of infidelity."In those films what always used to happen is we used to talk about finding a soul mate and then call it infidelity.
I don’t think love stories or relationships happen like that.