Mumbai: Filmmaker Meghna Gulzar said her upcoming thriller 'Daayra', starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran in the lead roles, took her into unexplored creative and social territory, while allowing her to examine the shades of grey that exist within individuals and society.
Meghna, daughter of cinema icon Gulzar, shared a note on 'Instagram', saying that she has explored these shades of grey in her earlier films, including 'Talvar', 'Raazi', 'Chhapaak' and 'Sam Bahadur' but 'Daayra' turned out to be something else.
"'Daayra' took my creativity to areas I have never explored before. It took my social awareness to reaches I didn't know I had. As a student of Sociology, I learned that our life and our society are not binary. It's not just black and white. There is a spectrum of grey that we exist in. In my journey as a filmmaker, through 'Talvar', 'Raazi', 'Chhapaak' and 'Sam Bahadur', I have cherished exploring that very grey within characters and within the world they and we live in. 'Daayra' for me, not only explores that grey... It invades it... It attempts to dismantle it," she said.
The film stars Kareena as DCP Ajooni Kohli and Prithviraj as DCP Raman Kumar who often find themselves on opposite sides of a delicate line between law and justice.
The filmmaker also said that the film changed her understanding of her home city of Mumbai and the country she thought she knew well. "I was born in Mumbai. Having lived here all my life and having travelled extensively across India, I thought I knew most of the city and the country through my life's journey so far. But the journey of 'Daayra' took me to unseen and unvisited places. And that's just the geography," she said.