Jehangir Khan (Shahrukh Khan), and talking about her own childhood, opening the cellar in her heart no one else’s been privy to: the shame and guilt of abandonment, of rejection, of not feeling loved. At one point in the movie, Kaira (Alia Bhatt), an up-and-coming cinematographer, is sitting opposite her therapist, Dr. I didn’t expect to revisit that feeling at all, much less while watching a film.
But when that moment receded, I felt relieved and calm, as if a part of me had just been set free, had just been accepted. I was very embarrassed, and very surprised, because I was talking about something that had happened one and a half decade ago, but the pain, even after such a long time, felt real and new and physical, stinging deep and not stopping. Those tears were hard and uncontrollable, as if they had lives of their own-some formed a film over my eyes, some fell on my shirt, some hung on my cheeks, some trailed down. “Yeah, I did not,” I said, and started crying-first slowly, and then in spurts. It was an innocuous question, really, which just sat there, not asked with an intention to elicit a reaction. “You didn’t take tiffin to school after eight grade?” She asked, as a matter of fact. But, more importantly, I was tired of being tired. It was a regular March afternoon this year, and I was sitting opposite my therapist, whom I had started seeing recently, because I was tired of my own emotional vacuum, one I had been carrying and hiding for years. “You know, I haven’t really cared for breakfast in a long, long time, because I stopped taking tiffin to school after eight grade.” The road in Goa, where Shahrukh and Alia ride their bicycles has now been named 'Dear Zindagi Road' due to the popularity of the movie.A still from Dear Zindagi featuring actors Alia Bhatt and Shah Rukh Khan. This is SRK's first film with Gauri, Alia, Aditya, and Aliĩ. Pooja Bhatt first worked with SRK in "Chaahat" in 1996.Ĩ. This film coincidently marks exactly after 20 years the Bhatt sisters have work with SRK. The part where SRK and Alia were cycling and Alia fell off the cycle is inspired by a real-life incident that occurred on the set of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai where Kajol on a similar occasion lost control of her cycle.ħ. The other two are Hema Malini and Farah KhanĦ. Gauri Shinde is the third female director to direct Shahrukh Khan. Ali Zafar was kept out of publicity material due to the URI Attacks aftermath which banned Pakistani actors from Indian films.ĥ. Ki & Ka has been directed by R Balki, husband of Gauri Shinde, director of Dear Zindagi.Ĥ. While Kaira (Alia Bhatt) is eating street food after breaking up with Sid (Angad Bedi), a poster of Ki & Ka can be seen in the theatre in the background. Ali Zafar (who is also a musician and singer) sang with his voice for 2 of the songs in the film - "Taarefon Se" and "Tu Hi Hai", while on the original soundtrack, the tracks are sung by playback singer Arijit Singh. "English Vinglish" is Gauri Shinde's directorial debut film with Sridevi.ģ. Jehangir (Shahrukh Khan's character in the film) mentions "English Vinglish" in one of his dialogues in the film. To compensate for the lost time, the crew shot for 24 hours the last day for they had their flights to catch on the next day.Ģ.
Unfortunately, rain played a spoilsport on the first day because of which the crew had lost more than half of their day. The movie as we know has largely been shot in Goa, however, the last two days of the shooting schedule were fixed for Singapore.