She’s too righteous for her own good which we are told in the end reels always leads to shrugging off your identity and disappearing into oblivion.Īll the glamour and the sensational allure of Madhur’s great Bollywood expose is let down by a limp screenplay, lame dialogues and an astonishing two and a half hr runtime. She plays the game the callous way, you revel in her slow rise, but it lasts a fraction of the movie. ‘Manipulate or get manipulated’ her aggressive publicist tells her. The focus is on the wrong-doings around her, not so much on her fight against it. She fails, weeps, trips and fails some more. Unlike Madhur’s other films, this one is deprived of a graph, the lead character doesn’t have an arc. Yesteryear actress, reduced to a character artiste.
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The inevitable fall of the woman protagonist spelled through a series of moral science lessons saddled on that one punch-line mouthed by Shagufta Rizvi (Helen). For Heroine, Madhur and his co-writers Anuradha Tiwari, Manoj Tyagi and Niranjan Iyengar aren’t able to yank off the ghosts of Madhur’s directorial pasts, running on staple ingredients. You know the film has failed at its intentions if the character stands taller than the film itself. There is a belief that any cause is a lost one when the person helming the cause rises above it. There is no attempt at bringing in any novelty, one that hasn’t been available off the internet or in Madhur’s own films earlier. A-lister married philandering actors – check, catty star wives – check, sportsmen with an eye for actresses – check, predatory journalists – check, crafty PR – check, gay designers, backslapping celebrities, smarmy businessmen and politicians – check, check, check. Heroine tells its story quite blatantly stringing together episodes of incidents picked loosely from gossip magazines of the past decade or so. Yet at times her effort goes overboard, you can’t help but feel agonized at the over-acting, possibly a result of subconsciously knowing that she is playing herself or someone she knows. She bawls and sulks and shrieks and whines, plays coy, throws aggressions, pouts in 50 shades of Lakme and “feels the character” much like an award-winning (and hence automatically translated to low-budget) filmmaker character (Ranvir Shorey, delightful) insists is the mantra to a good performance. As arty as in Chameli, as glamorous as in Kambakth Ishq, or as gutsy as in Jab we Met, in Heroine Kareena emotes her mascara out, using her deglamorized hypnotizing stare to soul stirring effect. In Heroine we see her enacting multiple characters as has done in her decade old career. That Kareena is one of the strongest female actors we have for this generation has been long proven. She doesn’t care for competition (Mugdha Godse, linear) she says, rather shedding buckets pinning for the affections of her commitment-phobic lover Aryan (Arjun Rampal, effective, one-dimensional, wasted).
Good karma playing truant, there doesn’t seem to be anything going well ever for Mahi as she navigates her life thru menacing competition, ruthless media, bitchy trophy wives, promiscuity and many more such negative attributes that is come to be associated with the big bad world of show business.
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Heroine is the flashback tell-tale of actress Mahi Arora (Kareena Kapoor), her journey from lows to lows as narrated by TV presenter. How then does Madhur make Heroine any different from his earlier flicks? Read on. Having indulged in realistic portrayal of the showbiz in his previous films, there is just about that much surface that can be scratched whilst having to maintain a conservative approach at the risk of offending anyone. When a filmmaker intents to throw mirror on the colorful life of mainstream actress in his bare-all voyeuristic way, there can’t be a better subject for the commercial masala-loving Indian cinema audiences. For a country constantly fascinated with the inside tittle-tattle of the glamour world, salacious gossips has many takers. In news for more controversial reasons than one, Heroine like all Madhur Bhandarkar movies was on the must-watch films list of many.
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