Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi's Gehraiyaan to be premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 25 January

Shakun Batra’s next film finally has a title and a release date. Gehraiyaan, starring Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday and Dhairya Karwa, will be premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 25 January 2022.

The makers of the relationship drama, produced by Dharma Productions, have opted to skip theatres.

Yesterday, producer Karan Johar teased a special announcement regarding the film with intriguing black and white photos from behind the scenes featuring Padukone, Chaturvedi, Panday and Rajat Kapoor.

Today, the cast and crew revealed a short glimpse of what Gehraiyaan may contain. The footage indicates that the characters played by Padukone and Chaturvedi are in a relationship and that Panday and Karwa play key roles in the film.

The video is accompanied by the title song, a moody, lyrical piece. The images of the waves and the sea seem to form a motif.

Announced two years ago, Gehraiyaan is Batra’s return to the director's chair as a feature filmmaker after his critically acclaimed second film Kapoor & Sons (2016). Earlier this year, he helmed the documentary Searching For Sheela (2021) which looked at the controversial figure of Ma Anand Sheela, former spokesperson for Osho aka Rajneesh.

Chaturvedi previously starred in Bunty Aur Babli 2 (2021). His breakout role came in Gully Boy (2019). Padukone and Karwa will be seen next in Kabir Khan’s sports drama 83 (2021) while Panday has been filming for the bilingual Liger (2022) with Vijay Deverakonda and Mike Tyson.