This film has created lot of news and hype around it due to multiple reasons : the entire controversy of Aishwarya Rai signing it last year despite being preggers and then walking out, the curiosity of seeing what goes on behind the glamrous bollywood faces and on top of all due to Madhur Bhandarkar who is famous for his reality based hard hitting films and considering that this was a t
ake from his own industry. Unfortunately, the film fails to live upto this hype.
As commonly known by now, it's a story about a film heroine who is losing her professional life and stardom to her rivals and losing her personal life to her mood swings and insecurities and how in the process of staying afloat on top of her career and love life, she retorts to manipulations, fake friendships, and the destructive world of cigarettes, alcohol and pills.
The film starts off well showing the dark and bitter inside of bollywood where every one is involved in scheming and pulling each other down but then just starts throwing in every possible shocking incident one after another. So you have film heroes trying to sleep with their heroines, their wives controlling their lives, their failed marriages, cricketers getting obsessed for film heroines, PR honchos creating sensational stories on the eve of film release, casting couches, gay designers and lesbian actresses. While all this keeps you engaged in first hour or so, you gradually start realising that the film is just being a bunch of all scandals that you have read about in the past. Also, the shock value of various incidents is negated by sense of deja vu, you have seen all this in Fashion and Page 3. And too much of all this happening in just one heroine's life makes her story dramatic and unreal. Mahi Arora ends up being a character that fails to touch your heart and the culmination of her story is too abrupt to make you think.
In terms of performances, Kareena Kapoor kills the part, she looks stunning and performs brilliantly particularly the vulnerability of her character. She is easily the best thing about the film. Other actors are decent. Music is just about ok and Halkat Jawani is no Sheela.
It's a watchable film but way short of the quality cinema you would expect out of Madhur Bhandarkar.
As commonly known by now, it's a story about a film heroine who is losing her professional life and stardom to her rivals and losing her personal life to her mood swings and insecurities and how in the process of staying afloat on top of her career and love life, she retorts to manipulations, fake friendships, and the destructive world of cigarettes, alcohol and pills.
The film starts off well showing the dark and bitter inside of bollywood where every one is involved in scheming and pulling each other down but then just starts throwing in every possible shocking incident one after another. So you have film heroes trying to sleep with their heroines, their wives controlling their lives, their failed marriages, cricketers getting obsessed for film heroines, PR honchos creating sensational stories on the eve of film release, casting couches, gay designers and lesbian actresses. While all this keeps you engaged in first hour or so, you gradually start realising that the film is just being a bunch of all scandals that you have read about in the past. Also, the shock value of various incidents is negated by sense of deja vu, you have seen all this in Fashion and Page 3. And too much of all this happening in just one heroine's life makes her story dramatic and unreal. Mahi Arora ends up being a character that fails to touch your heart and the culmination of her story is too abrupt to make you think.
In terms of performances, Kareena Kapoor kills the part, she looks stunning and performs brilliantly particularly the vulnerability of her character. She is easily the best thing about the film. Other actors are decent. Music is just about ok and Halkat Jawani is no Sheela.
It's a watchable film but way short of the quality cinema you would expect out of Madhur Bhandarkar.
Cinema Analyst's Take - Average.
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