If you have been following the career graph of Alaya F, you will know that Alaya F is understated and speaks more about her work. She is back with a new movie, and we could not help but get her time to speak about her new movie U Turn.
Alaya has set herself apart in the new kids on the Bollywood block market by not splashing herself or her parentage across media. She also has impressively picked movies and roles that has the fans focus more on her as an actor rather than a personality.
ALAYA F (PRODIP GUHA, GETTY IMAGES)
Already being hailed for her comfort in front of the camera, Alaya F made her acting debut in 2020 with the comedy film Jawaani Jaaneman, for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. Excited about her new movie,she spoke to Desis.Live this week.
“U Turn is not a remake but much of an adaptation of the supernatural thriller with different twists, turns, and endings that will leave the audience with a surprise.”, clarifies Alaya as we talk about the movie which releases on Zee5 Global next week.
Her earlier movie this year, Freddy was Alaya’s first attempt at a supernatural, romantic thriller as she starts her artistic journey across new genres.
She has impressively picked up diverse, challenging roles “My criteria in picking movies is the feeling of being safe in a film- that sense of safety can come from the actors, directors, producers, or the script.”
For her new feature film, U-turn, Alaya feels that sense of safety came from not only from her producer Ekta Kapoor, but also the wonderfully written script. “When the script was narrated to me, my instant reaction was that the characters had incredible range and depth that would challenge me.”
“It made me invested in the movie”, she adds
The extremely diverse co-cast of Priyanshu Painyuli and Asheem Gulati made this character driven movie even more interesting.
“They are incredible actors on screen and seamlessly fitted into the roles. Priyanshu was extremely calm and composed off-set adding a lot to the characters.”
The cast and crew was young and they were all actively trying to make good cinema.
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Adds Alaya, “U-turn is my fourth film and I’m looking to not specifically go into the typical Bollywood movies genre but rather movies of all sorts and genres no matter what it is with different actors, environments, and roles.”
In U-Turn, Alaya is an intern Radhika at a publication called the Indie Times. While cops are trying to figure out why people negligently shift dividers on a flyover to make a u-turn which has become the cause of many accidents, Radhika starts investigating the case journalistically. However, during this process, she becomes involved in the investigation of a murder and becomes a prime suspect to the crime. In order to prove her innocence, she gets help from a cop (played by Priyanshu Painyuli). This is when she realizes that the situation is much bigger than just this one murder, one flyover, and one incident and that all the multiple murders tie back to this one case, at every new moment in the movie, the audience is left to wonder who this ties back to – whether it is a supernatural force or a human being, who is it, how is it happening. Definitely a plot that will keep the audience to continue guessing.
This thriller is available on Zee5Global on 28th of April and along with Alaya F also features Rajesh Sharma, Aashim Gulati, Priyanshu Painyuli ,Shriidhar Dubey and Manu Rishi Chadha
