Deepika Padukone has been winning praises for her role in movie Gehraiyaan. In the film, Deepika plays Alisha, who is engaged to Karan (Dhairya Karwa) but falls for her cousin Tia’s (Ananya Panday) fiance, Zain (played by Siddhant Chaturvedi). Deepika admitted that playing a troubled character and portraying infidelity on screen was touch for her and she had ‘to really dig deep and visit places that aren’t really the most pleasant’ from her life.
As per reports in Hindustan Times, at the trailer launch, press conference, Deepika spoke about why the character was so personal for her. “For me this character is a lot more raw, a lot more real than some of the other characters that I have played just emotionally, completely stripped, completely naked in that sense, completely vulnerable,” she said.
Deepika added that it was difficult for her to portray that vulnerability as she had to dig into ‘unpleasant places’ from her life, a reference to her mental health issues. She added, “To be able to do that onscreen, it had to come from a very very deep place. So, yes, it’s not to say I haven’t experienced that before. I think to this extent where I had to really dig deep and visit places that aren’t really the most pleasant from my own life as well as dealing with mental health issues. So, I think all of that put together it just came from a very very deep place.”
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