"Dear Zindagi" is definitely not a film for everyone - but to those with whom it resonates, it is a beautiful film.
Alia is superlative, turning in a nuanced performance, leaving you astonished that someone so young and so relatively inexperienced can essay a role with so many different layers. SRK is restrained and watchable and actually steps back to make room for the talent that unfolds in front of him. The supporting cast have all turned in sterling performances.
Gauri Shinde can certainly craft a story, and direct it to hit its target dead centre. A gifted young cinematographer who lays her inner devils to rest with the help of a hatke psychiatrist with an unconventional modus operandi: an unusual tale, unusually told; we need more such films.
I'm no connoisseur, but I thought that Alia's costume design was exceptionally good and completely in sync with her character. And the music was absolutely on point.
Perhaps I'm going overboard, but I'm ok with that: I'm an unabashed Alia fan, and this is a performance that she is going to be proud of.
And the sheer hilarity of the line: "Are you a Lebanese?"
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