She is THE HEROINE.. Review on Heroine Movie

Heroine is a story of ups and downs of a Bollywood’s heroine life,  and which is shot by Madhur Bhandarkar, the man who is famous for making different yet specific topic related movie, who picks up one topic, do a research, and open out the black and white lies of that particular world. It is 11th movie in direction by him, and once again he proved that yes, he is the director who always have the in-depth research and knowledge of his topic.

Mahi Arora (Kareena Kapoor) is a well-known hit heroine of industry, and she loves her co-star, famous actor Aryan Khanna (Arjun Rampal), who is in-process of taking divorce from his wife, but he can’t commit to Mahi for marriage. Mahi is very impulsive, extra-emotional, and also take psychiatric help. When rejected by Aryan, she finds a friend in vice-captain of Indian Cricket team Angad Paul (Randeep Hooda), who asked her to marry him, but she refused because of her career. She was lost due to her diminishing career, and hires a PR specialist (Divya Dutta), who called-in for endorsements for her and events. She accepted a small-budget art-film of a Bengali director (Ranvir Shorey), since she didn’t have any big-budget films. That film too gets shelved, and she doesn’t have any work to do, and buried under a lot of depressions and depressions. Going by so many ups-and-downs, in the end, she made one-of-her small budget film a box-office success by creating a controversy, when she asked her PR specialist to leak her se* video (with Aryan) over internet. She become famous and her film become super hit, but in turn she loses everything, even her friend and yesteryear actress whom she admired Shagufta Rizwi (Helen).

I must say that this story (Madhur Bhandharkar) is well-researched and shot, each scene looks perfectly placed, with ongoing chemistries stitched well (Screenplay: Anuradha Tiwari, Manoj Tyagi). Movie starts off with a flashback, while the credits rolled on with the title track “Main Heroine Hoon” (sung by Aditi Singh Sharma). Movie proceeded further on the tracks of Madhur’s earlier venture ‘Page 3’, with parties flown in and gossips going-ons. But it picked up well from that point, and 1st half looked well-woven, and even though lack of background score (Salim-Sulaiman) affect the film’s speed but still you managed to come through till interval. After interval, it get slacked, started getting boring, some scenes could be shorten up and the movie becomes much better, had they chopped off some length of the movie, which goes on for 2.5 hrs. How the story proceeded is certainly a plus-point of the film though. 2nd half stuff we have seen before too and can compare it with not-so-old movie ‘The Dirty Picture’. Talking of performances, well, I must say that Kareena probably did the best role of her life, and she didn’t hesitate in shooting the without-makeup scenes (we all know how a heroine looked without makeup). She just looks too natural in the role, probably because of her over-acting style of acting, which was the demand of this role (just like Shahrukh looked perfect in Don 2 as Don, Farhan may have asked him to act normal, like he is in normal life:P). Arjun Rampal too came good, and looked perfectly suited for the role. Randeep is a fine actor, which showed here too, but he is becoming predictable. Divya Dutta, Ranvir Shorey and Helen too matched up with the film’s role and they did wonderful. Other worth-mentioning performances came from Shahana Goswami, Govind Namdeo and Sanjay Suri. Direction was top-class for sure.  End of the movie looks abrupt, I guessed something else, I can say that by watching a dramatic movie like this one, I expected a dramatic end to the story, my wish remained unfulfilled, and the movie ends on a simple note. Songs were good – Halkat Jawani (Sundihi Chauhan) already became a hit number, and the other two songs were also good “Khwahishen” and “Saiyaan”. Music is good, given by Salim-Sulaiman. Dialogues are good, at some places solid, and should count as a plus point for the film.

As a movie, I will recommend this movie with 3.5/5 stars to watch. If you’re a Bhandarkar fan, then you should watch the movie for his brilliance. I have seen his earlier movies, out of which I liked ‘Page 3’ and ‘Traffic Signal’ the most, but ‘Heroine’ is a good comeback after the disastrous ‘Dil to Bachcha Hai ji’.

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