

The contextual build up is unnecessary and constant in the film. Unfortunately, they don’t all blend seamlessly in the film. Such as importance of parenting in shaping an individual, being open to seeking mental health or societal acceptance for a girl with multiple relationships and a budding career.

What Shinde tries to do is pack a lot of hefty learnings in one script. On the other hand, we are time and again shown a strained relationship between her and her parents.Īt first, you think she’s just riddled with some love life issues that drive her to seeing a therapist, only to later learn that her tough childhood is responsible for all of it. What follows is her dealing with the recent break-up with Raghu and an entire first half is wasted in this. In the first ten minutes, she breaks up with Sid (Angad Bedi) after revealing to him that she cheated on him and later she bails on giving Raghuvendra (Kunal Kapoor) a crisp answer about getting serious. Quite early on, its thrust on us that Kyra has a problem with commitments. We first meet Kyra at her workplace and then in the bars and parties. You know you’ve come far in terms of a Bollywood film when for a change, you find a leading lady’s character being introduced by her profession. Dear Zindagi Review Dear Zindagi Review: Script Analysis

With his ‘cool’ stories, he wins over Kyra’s fears and teaches her to embrace life. In his ‘out of textbook’ ways, Jug helps Kyra open up about her on the surface problems and further digs into the bigger ones.

After an interesting encounter with Jehangir Khan (Shah Rukh Khan), Kyra decides to seek his help for her problems. Her screwed up relationships with her boyfriends and parents, eventually lead her into seeing a DD (Dimaag Ka Doctor). Kyra (Alia Bhatt) is shown to be a talented, young cinematographer who like many millennials has a messy love life and a yet to bloom career.
