two worlds two cultures two families one love story 2 states redefined and rejuvenated the lovemarriage space simple and yet striking gorgeous and graceful this is a film where we come away hankering to know what happens to the couple after the film is over the film is put together with the stress on lightness of tone from the clothes that ananya alia bhatt and krish arjun kapoor wear to the spaces they inhabitread alsoarjun kapoor and alia bhatts romantic drama 2 states clocks 9 yearsas the multistarrer romantic drama 2 states completed 9 years of its release on tuesday actor arjun kapoor shared a picture on social media to mark the occasionyou wont find them fuelling a filmy flamboyance into the narrativealia dressed as a bride looks like a doll in a way the honesty that her face never ceases to express symbolizes what this film strives to do 2 states creates a world where characters dont shout to be heard they just belong to a world where being proper politically or otherwise is not always a preconditionapparently the role of the young tamilian wife is based on writer chetan bhagats own wife alia was asked to play her part as normally as the reallife mrs bhagat alia played the first noncaricatural south indian character in our films normally when we show south indians in our films they have think accents and if its a women from the south she will have gajra in her hair and will go aiyo yo every five minutes alia did none of thatthe twofilm old actress was told to play the character without the props of broad character traits apparently alia was asked to strictly not do a deepika padukone kind of accent from chennai expressalia had admitted in an old interview that it was difficult to not lapse into caricature while doing a south indian character i was not allowed to be culturespecific in 2 states in my bodylanguage or my accent yes i am a tamilian in 2 states but i dont make a show of my regional roots it is tough because when you are not resorting to speech and behavioral props you have no handy tools to give personality to your characterin a 2014 interview chetan bhagat expressed his pleasure at the movie version of his novel 2 states is quite close to me because the inspiration came from my own life the key plot points are from my life but there is fictionalization and drama added as well hence technically it is krish and ananyas story in the book and i think the film has captured that quite well i was only involved in the initial stages in terms of placing the key members of the team in place producers director and the main cast i was consulted on all of these and we came to a consensus on what works best after that it was completely director abhishek vermans show he has made a wonderful film and