Shah Rukh, I miss you, says his Dear Zindagi co-star Alia Bhatt

Shah Rukh Khan was not far behind and replied in his usual witty manner. This depends on whether a filmmaker who is captain of the ship (and decides everything in and about it from content to budget and from the composed frames to the heroine’s accessories) learns lessons right and wrong from the first success/good film. “She is moody, so am I. However, I am not as impulsive as she is but yes I related a lot to the way she thinks”. Only Shinde spells things out with the much dreaded T word – therapy – which many of us, like Kaira, may require desperately in the urban loneliness and breakdowns we are caught in but are hesitant to seek out because of the dread of being labelled insane.

Alia as the free-spirited, emotional youngster, craving love shines all the way. There are some films, after watching them, you are like, ok this is the director I actually want to work with. Only, this time the secret turns out to be not so dark, though equally deep. Likely, that is the very first time Alia has expressly said Sidharth Malhotra is loved by her.

The pictures of SRK, Alia, Kapil and Sunil Grover aka Dr Mashoor Gulati who is having insane fun on the show going viral on the social site, including Facebook and Instagram account which is enough to give goose bumps to the fans. The raring-to-go cinematographer shares every dirty little secret with her friends (the very likeable Ira Dubey and Yashaswini Dayama), hates her overbearing parents, and is a complete mess in her romantic relationships. The film expectedly has good production values and the ethos of Goa is beautifully captured through the lens of Laxman Utekar.

Alia, at 23, you are one of the A-listers in Bollywood. In a video posted by a fan, it seems Shah Rukh Khan got a lot more than cheers. The part required someone whom the broken and hurting Kaira (and by extension the audience) can immediately accept as authoritative in a “cool” kind of way.

The music of composed Amit Trivedi has received good response from all the critics.

Dear Zindagi is an Alia Bhatt film and the entire movie rests on her shoulders. Alia is indeed magical in “Dear Zindagi“.