Director Meghna Gulzar and the real life Malti, Laxmi Agarwal has been all praises for Deepika for having immense patience and letting herself immerse into the role completely. The “wizardry” prosthetics applied by prosthetic expert, Clover Wootton has worked like wonders. The shooting for the movie has been wrapped by 4^th of June, this year.

Deepika’s first look for the film has collected accolades and appreciation from her fans, film folks and critics. Vikrant Massey will be casted opposite Deepika in this movie. The actress has poured her emotions for Chhapak on social media site, “a character that will stay with me forever.” Slated to be released on January 10, 2020, the fans as well as the industry itself is waiting eagerly to watch it on the silver screen.

The movie depicts love, affairs and complicated relationship among the characters. The female protagonist of the movie, ‘Roop’, played by Alia Bhatt finds love in “Zafar, the male protagonist playd by ‘Varun Dhawan’, though she was married to Dev Chaudhry, Played by Aditya Roy Kapur who was actually the husband of Satya, who was battling with Cancer. The character of Satya was played by Soakshi Sinha who had very little to do with her character.

On the other hand, Madhuri’s character as Bahar Begum from the infamous place of Husnabad was portrayed with elegance. The twist in the story came when it was revealed that ‘Zafar’ is actually not the legal son of Bahar Begum and Balraj Chaudhry played by Sanjay Dutt; father-in-law of Roop.

Bahar Begum’s dialogue in the movie, “Awaz achhi hai, lekin namak kam hai,” can be compared with the Director, Abhishek Varman. He had a story line but more emphasis was put on the grandiose set up. It seemed the passion for the story was missing.

With an IMDb rating of 3.6/10, Kalank failed to touch the hearts of the audience.