Actress Sarika makes a comeback into the highlight after 5 years with Modern Love Mumbai. In the anthology, impressed by the hit US collection Modern Love, Sarika leads Alankrita Shrivastava’s My Beautiful Wrinkles. Although solely a small glimpse of the story was proven within the trailer, it was sufficient to be taught that the story put the highlight on 60-year-old Dilbar’s (Sarika) relationship with a 20-something Kunal (Danesh Razvi).

The topic of an older lady and a youthful man’s romantic relationship shouldn’t be new on the display. A number of of the most effective examples are Dil Chahta Hai and Alankrita’s very personal Lipstick Under My Burkha. However, the director says that My Beautiful Wrinkles is in contrast to the stated examples.

“I believe this can be a very totally different story as a result of it’s a narrative in regards to the coming-of-age of a lady who’s in her center age. At the beginning of the movie, the whole lot is ok in her life however she begins to really feel that life shouldn’t be very thrilling. She’s carrying some form of weight and baggage in her life. However, flip of occasions led to her encountering Danish (Kunal) and it makes her replicate on her personal life,” Alankrita explains.

Speaking of the script, Alankrita shares that the essential concept of this is from a New York Times article. The reason she chose this particular story, Alankrita reveals, is that she could connect with this particular story. “I felt connected to Dilbar’s journey because I do feel that every relationship in our lives doesn’t always lead to a conventional, happily ever after kind of an ending but people change us, our encounters change us, they make us grow and think.”

My Beautiful Wrinkle pushes Sarika out of her consolation zone. Ask her if she confronted any challenges, particularly whereas coping with a topic that’s nonetheless thought of a taboo in components of the nation and Sarika says, “To be sincere, challenges, taboo, these phrases, I don’t recognise these phrases. Not solely as a result of possibly I’ve not skilled on this specific context however in any other case additionally, sure, I believe issues are nonetheless the identical in some areas in society however in any other case it’s not taboo, it’s not a problem in that sense. It’s a problem when you have a look at it in your thoughts that ‘oh my god, this story is like that’. Then it turns into a problem. But that’s not how it’s. And it’s part of one thing stunning.”

Addressing Dilbar’s relationship with Kunal in the movie, Sarika adds, “You can’t just label their relationship as an affair, you can’t describe it as her falling for him or him falling for her. The story is beyond that. When you see the film, you’ll realise it.”

Sarika is paired reverse Danesh, who’s finest identified for his position in Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy. The actor says that when he got here throughout the script, he felt that he might match into the character of Kunal with ease. “Firstly once I discovered it was Modern Love itself, I used to be massively enthusiastic about it. When I learn the script, I favored it, I believed I’d match into the character very well and I believed it is going to be one thing attention-grabbing to play. It’s not one thing I’ve accomplished earlier than and the entire age factor, it’s an attention-grabbing manner that it has been put on this script as to the way it performs out which is what drew me to it,” he teases.

Although not seen in the trailer, My Beautiful Wrinkles also stars Ahsaas Channa in a pivotal role. While she refrained from sharing spoilers about the story, she did reveal, “I play Sarika’s granddaughter Siya in the movie, they share a beautiful bond, you get to see that really nice relationship on the side. It’s a really sweet track.” Expressing her pleasure about sharing the units with Sarika and starring in an Alankrita Shrivastava directorial, Ahsaas confesses, “Every time I used to be on units, I used to be counting my blessings that that is so cool. I had a blast taking pictures this one.”

Modern Love Mumbai premieres on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, May 13.

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