'Lust Stories' was a game changer for me: Kiara Advani

Kiara Advani returns to Netflix with "Guilty", her second outing with streamer after "Lust Stories", and actor says filmmaker Karan Johar thought she would be apprehensive about coming on board for ar project on OTT platform. Kiara made her debut in 2014 with "Fugly", but found acclaim with Johar's directorial segment in 2018's anthology.

"I was in car with Karan when he told me he has heard a narration and it's a very strong role. He said it's most thrilling script he had heard. He wanted me to hear it and told me it was on Netflix. 

"But he thought I may have apprehension in my mind because I had signed films like 'Kabir Singh' and 'Good Newwz' but in my head, platform doesn't matter. What matters is content," Kiara told reporters here.

Having seen reach of web, actor said she had qualms about returning to medium. "As an actor you want to reach out as many people as possible. Fortunately, script that came to me was 'Guilty'. 'Lust Stories' was a game changer for me. So re was never a second thought about doing 'Guilty'. It seemed like a perfect opportunity."

Directed by Ruchi Narain, "Guilty" explores different versions of truth that emerge when a small-town girl accuses college heartthrob of rape. Kiara said story of film is layered and hence it cant be classified as a thriller. "Yesterday I called Karan and asked him, 'What do I say (about trailer)' and he said something that I wrote down because it aptly describes film.

"Basically, consent is a victim of perception. And it's true because what may be consensual to you might t be consensual to someone else. How each one of us looks at it." Ruchi, kwn for writing screenplays of films such as "Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi" and "Calcutta Mail", said while sexual assault has always been a relevant issue, re is a lot more conversation and awareness around it today.

"re is a lot of talk and awareness about it se days, about any kind of assault and who do you believe. What interested me most in telling this story was that when you read an article, re are opinions and a lot of things are academic. But life is about human beings and everybody is coming from a (certain) place, y have ir own nda. 

"So when an issue like this happens, re are different reasons to believe and t believe. So how do you really kw? That's question which bors and plagues all of us. Everyone has a point of view and it is, in some way, relevant. It is a story about human complexities," Ruchi added. Written by Kanika Dhillon and Atika Chohan, "Guilty" will stream from March 6.