Darlings

Alia Bhatt's dark-comedy film, 'Darlings' is currently streaming on Netflix.

A third user said: "just finished #darlings and i just loved it, it was more darker than i was expected, the story is so gripping and unfortunately too real, so many women still suffer from their husband's violences, the cast was fabulous, bow down to alia who is really a superstar !" Another user said: "I think I cried more than I laughed (and I laughed A LOT) #Darlings." A Twitter user wrote: "#Darlings on #Netflix is an absolute cinematic representation of how normalised patriarchy is in our country, and how subtly this glass is broken by this mother-duo by thrashing patriarchy and abuse. The dark comedy marks Alia’s first release post the success of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi. The music for the film is composed by filmmaker-composer Vishal Bhardwaj, and the lyrics are by veteran lyricist Gulzar. As the film has premiered today on Netflix, it has been receiving positive responses from social media users.

Mumbai: 'Darlings' director Jasmeen K. Reen has praised Alia Bhatt and said that her relationship with the actress-producer evolved as they progressed.

My working relationship with Alia evolved as we progressed.” She is true to the film, and the character, nothing else matters. Before we knew it, we were jamming creatively, the bond was seamless, respectful, and most important – the relationship had trust.”

Darlings, starring Alia Bhatt, Shefali Shah, Vijay Varma and Roshan Mathew, has been co-produced by Shah Rukh's Red Chillies Entertainment.

But I feel we have a lovely film and u r the soul and sunshine of all things Darlings.” Ahead of Darlings’ release, Shah Rukh Khan had shared how anxious he is about the film. The Indian Express’ Shubhra Gupta gave the movie a 2.5-star rating.

After shooting for 'Dunki', SRK, took a day off from work on Friday and decided to pamper himself by watching Alia Bhatt's film 'Darlings'.

Shah Rukh played the role of a psychiatrist called Dr. Jehangir Khan. While treating Alia Bhatt in the film, Shah Rukh’s character gave important life lessons to the audience with his powerful dialogues. In a tweet, he had written, “Lil one I am also so anxious that u shared the responsibility of Eternal Sunshine Productions first film with me…that I will be biting my nails till it releases. Love you the most.”

In the movie, the intricacies of Chawl's life are emphasised; you get a sense of a hundred small hustles running parallel. The songs, too, are a banger, ...

The intricacies of Chawl's life are emphasised; you get a sense of a hundred small hustles running parallelly. Alia is brilliant as Badrunissa. As in Gully Boy (2019) and Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022), her Bombaiyaa accent is spot-on (with an eccentric ‘S’ added to the ends of English words). While her characters in the aforementioned films were defined by their assertiveness, Badru is a bit of a muddle. The first hour is a gripping yet excruciating loop of Hamza’s violations of his wife. Even after she has restrained, drugged up and tortured Hamza, she remains weirdly open to his machinations and appeals (or gives a good impression of it). Shefali is entertaining as Shamsu, “Badappan gaya kan khujane,” she shoots—though the winner, clearly, is Vijay Varma. There are more layers to his Hamza than all one-note abusive husbands from Hindi films combined. The songs, too, are a banger, especially the wild and swooning ‘Pleaj!’. He’s a baiter and a master manipulator, frighteningly aware of his wife’s hopes and dreams and emotional weak points and using them to his advantage. Badrunissa (Alia Bhatt) rushes to a movie date with her boyfriend, Hamza (Vijay Varma). She waits and waits, missing the show. Going by the trailer of Darlings, you’d expect this twist to come much earlier on in the film. Hamza, a jerk and an alcoholic, routinely hits his wife, triggered by anything from slips in her cooking to a genuine concern for his well-being. “Government job leke aya (I found a government job),” he tells her. Equally fascinating, at least to me, are the supporting players who populate the world of this film. Alia Bhatt, Shefali Shah, Vijay Varma and Roshan Mathew headline this seductive black comedy set in Mumbai. But that’s just the start.

'Sleeping with the Enemy' with Julia Roberts playing the battered wife was probably one of the first popular Hollywood films to tackle domestic violence ...

To give her the opportunity to get rid of the anger and disappointment within her. But Alia wants a baby with her husband and tries to reform him but when her life does not change her patience snaps. Despite evidence of repeated abuse by her husban (he used to enjoy pushing her down the stairs to prevent her from dressing like white girls), the law doesn’t allow her to claim self-defence, as her husband was asleep when Kiranjit had set him on fire. Many domestic violence victims recognised the insidiously, coercive behavior that the husband in the film displayed and admitted to have identified strongly with Roberts’ character of Laura. In Sleeping with the Enemy, a beautiful Julia Roberts (fresh from her runaway hit, Pretty Woman) played Laura, the trophy wife of an investment counsellor, who has been abusing her throughout their marriage, isolating her from the outside world to further ensure his control over her mind and body. The film has been used as the template for such subsequent movies as the 2002 Jennifer Lopez film, Enough (on Netflix), and 2015’s The Perfect Guy, starring Sanaa Lathan (available on YouTube).

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But when tables turn and Hamza is the supposed victim at the hands of his merciless wife and her mother, violence against men somehow appears to look like a joke. But in parts, the story does bother you when domestic violence is used as a ploy to trigger laughs — a woman sticking by her husband despite being abused, a man showing no sign of regret or for his actions, silent spectators shown as caricatures. He's cruel and unreasonable and his character, I felt, is written in the most realistic manner. From that point, Darlings shows how a middle-class mother-daughter duo (Shah and Bhatt), who is caught in their own circumstantial hang-ups, gradually discovers their inner strength to survive in a city like Mumbai, battling all odds. The husband is an alcoholic who holds no remorse for assaulting his wife every night, the wife is head over heels in love with the man and doesn't mind cooking breakfast — the staple bun omelette — every morning for him with bruises all over — this may be a regular occurrence in many Indian households, but rarely gets talked about the way it should. Badrunissa Shaikh aka Badru (Bhatt) is smitten by roadside romeo Hamza Shaikh (Vijay Varma), and marries him as soon as he secures himself a government job.

Jasmeet's debut outing throws light on domestic abuse through the lens of a dark comedy. How Badru, played by Alia, decides to stop being the.Darlings.

Her choice of scripts is among the best in the industry. Kudos to Alia Bhatt for letting a woman tell a woman's story and not opt for a man's perception of her troubles. As for Jasmeet, her launch is a laudable one. Hope to see a daring production house in Eternal that isn't afraid to get political with its choice of content. No. Is it a smart genre to talk about a serious issue like domestic abuse? He is in complete control of the mood shifts. Is it the best dark comedy out there? This way, Jasmeet ensures the audience assumes the role of a neighbour, who is both privy and not to the troubles of the couple next door, just like in a chawl. Badru's mother Shamshu (Shefali Shah) lives a couple of doors away from her and just wants her to see through the situation clearly and act on it. It is the performances, as mentioned earlier, that ensure quality to an otherwise ordinary story. The conviction rate is abysmal mainly due to the confusion on what amounts to domestic abuse. Hamza has a government job and Badru is a dreamer with a five-year plan that cannot go wrong if things move along as she intends.

Interestingly, Vijay Varma and Sujoy Ghosh have already collaborated on The Devotion of Suspect X, which co-stars Kareena Kapoor Khan and Jaideep Ahlawat.

We have learnt that Vijay has been roped in for director Sujoy Ghosh’s segment in the upcoming anthology, Lust Stories 2, which is backed by Ronnie Screwvala, Ashi Dua and Netflix. Casting for the leading lady is presently on, but should be locked soon. Lust Stories 1 was helmed by directors Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee. Darlings actor Vijay Varma is garnering a lot of praise for his performance in the Jasmeet K Reen directorial, which also features Alia Bhatt, Shefali Shah and Roshan Mathew. In the past too, he has received a lot of love for his performances in Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy and for Mirzapur as well.

Helmed by debutant Jasmeet K Reen, Darlings is a dark comedy centered around the marriage of Alia Bhatt and Vijay Varma.

In a tweet, he had written, "Lil one I am also so anxious that u shared the responsibility of Eternal Sunshine Productions' first film with me...that I will be biting my nails till it releases. Responding to the tweet, Alia said, "And you are my eternal favourite actor/person/producer ever! Shah Rukh played the role of a psychiatrist called Dr. Jehangir Khan. While treating Alia Bhatt in the film, Shah Rukh's character gave important life lessons to the audience with his powerful dialogues. Love you the most." MUMBAI: Like many, superstar Shah Rukh Khan also loves to "Netflix and chill" during his free time. Helmed by debutant Jasmeet K Reen, Darlings is a dark comedy centered around the marriage of Alia Bhatt and Vijay Varma. The story is a powerful take on domestic abuse and revolves around Alia Bhatt's retaliation after facing abuse at the hands of her husband Humza.

There are a few things that 'Darlings', a film which brings domestic violence to the fore, gets absolutely right, the most striking of them being the way it ...

She is trying to make something of herself, and the portions between her and her earnest, handsome accomplice (Rohan Mathew) as she starts laying out her wares as a home-cook, lend a touch of amusement to the proceedings. Post-interval, in a bid to lighten the ‘heavy’ topic of domestic abuse, the film starts to build on its black comedy aspect. The other powerful act is from Shefali Shah. As Shamshunissa aka Shamshu, mother to Badru, she extends full support to her daughter, but she is not just a door-stopper. It is a toxic world, but it is theirs, and till the time we stay with the back-and-forth between them, the film holds the viewer. The pattern is hard to break. It makes him feel like a big man in his own house, after being unmanned everywhere else, especially in his workplace, where he is treated like dirt.

This review of the Netflix film Darlings does not contain spoilers Life has a way of coming full circle for everyone. Most of the time, parents find.

Reen makes the viewers connect with these characters and that’s the important part of telling this story. People can approach situations in different ways and that is what Badru does in this movie. It is a bit hard to watch at times, but it’s necessary. The honeymoon phase at the beginning is quickly shown to show the power dynamic between the two. The subject of emotional and physical abuse from a partner has become more mainstream in media because there is a need to share these stories. Their past finds a way to the present and creates an even worse situation.

They don't agree with critics who say the film is normalising domestic abuse against men.

They said the situation would be different were the genders reversed, forgetting that the genders were reversed in the film initially and that this was the actual reversal. Some viewers missed out on the point of the film, taking it on much of a literal level instead of grasping its nuance but fans are ready to defend the film on Twitter. Darlings is a story where tables are turned and the woman stands up to her abusive husband to give him a taste of his own medicine.

Darlings started to stream on Netflix on August 5. However, various torrent sites like Movierulz and Tamilrockers, notorious for piracy, have leaked it ...

Fans have been a good response to the film on social media. After the box office success of Gangubai Kathiwadi, Alia Bhatt is back in the starring role in the new Netflix release Darlings. She has teamed up with her Gully Boy co-star Vijay Verma and seasoned actress Shefali Shah as they promise to bring intensity coupled with dark humour in this offbeat crime drama. Darlings has been leaked on popular torrent websites Movierulz, Tamilrockers and other places online.

The Bollywood star and first-time producer spoke with IndieWire about tackling domestic violence via dark comedy.

She’s just trying to be desirable to her husband because she wants to make a baby, so she goes out there and she gets this beautiful dress that she calls “frocks.” Again, she’s so sure that her solutions are the solutions and that it will definitely be worth it this time, and it’s definitely going to make a big difference this time. Are you serious?” That is important, so in a sense it’s good that there is a certain exhaustion that sets in with the repetitive nature of her being stuck in a loop. How is it to depict that, both to sit in it and not make the film repetitive? What I look for is is impactful, unique characters that allow me to be another person, [different] from myself and from the characters that I’ve played in the past. If you say something and you’re making that distinction: Maybe I’m not on Twitter and Instagram, and I have a lot of real problems and real issues going on — we can’t be debating whether this is right or wrong on Twitter, on Instagram, I’m actually dealing with it. Millions of them happen even now in our country, and it just makes me really sad because it makes me feel like there’s an attitude that’s set in that this is something that happens in every marriage, “Oh, it happens with everybody.” But then it gets to [a] really, really disturbing point and why let it get to that? What’s light and what’s comic-related is just these characters and their world and the things that they’re doing and saying — so you have a certain light response to that. It’s something that I have to do by myself and discover by myself and nobody else can get that for me. I love that scene as a balance of drama because it’s this post-traumatic incident, but it’s funny to us because of how bizarre and whacked out everything sounds. When I heard the narration [of the script], I actually did not have the time to take on a new film. How it came about was I reached a point where I was looking at scripts and films from a much larger lens — not just as an actor, [but] thinking about what kind of movies would I like to produce — basically put together content for the world beyond the content that I see myself part of. I love the set up and realness that they’re experiencing, but also a certain optimistic escapist world that they also have going on for themselves.

Alia Bhatt's Darlings has not only impressed her co-producer Gauri Khan and Shah Rukh Khan but their kids, Aryan Khan and Suhana Khan as well.

Lets’ say they were very happy, loving, and supportive and they really loved it,” she further said when asked about their take on the film. She added “They all loved it. They all saw it. Earlier on Saturday, Vijay revealed how he has been getting negative comments on the internet after playing an abusive husband in the film. (Also read: Alia Bhatt finally shows her baby bump) Darlings highlights the issue of domestic violence against women.

Actor Alia Bhatt, who has turned producer with her latest outing 'Darlings', which she has co-produced with Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment, ...

Earlier on Saturday, Vijay revealed how he has been getting negative comments on the internet after playing an abusive husband in the film. Lets’ say they were very happy, loving, and supportive and they really loved it,” she further said when asked about their take on the film. What a brilliant performance, Vijay.” commented another one. She added “They all loved it. 'Darlings' highlights the issue of domestic violence against women. Actor Alia Bhatt, who has turned producer with her latest outing 'Darlings', which she has co-produced with Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment, says that the entire King Khan family has loved the film including Suhana Khan and Aryan Khan. The dark comedy, directed by Jasmeet K. Reen earned praises from several celebrities, including Shah Rukh Khan.