- Film : Heroine
- Producer : Ronnie Screwvala, Madhur Bhandarkar
- Director : Madhur Bhandarkar
- Star Cast : Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda, Shahana Goswami Sapkota ...
- Music Director : Salim-Sulaiman
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Heroine Movie in short could be described as a poor shot from Madhur Bhandarkar missing the target by miles to depict the story of a real life heroine. Instead of taking you into the glitzy world of a glamorous heroine and the world of the movies behind the screens; Bhandarkar decided to divert the journey into a mentally unstable life of a Heroine who apparently has condition similar to bipolar disorder. Not worth a watch unless you are desperate to see Kareena Kapoor in a semi-lesbian steamy scene.
Other Ratings
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Deccan
2.5 Madhur Bhandarkar's -
The Times of India
3 Mahi Arora has -
BharatStudent
3 A gritty tale -
Rediff
2 Bhandakar's idea of
Story
Kareena Kapoor plays Mahi Arora, a leading protagonist in the industry but is an extremely moody and completely spoilt one too. With a problem of dipsomania, the petulant actress often visits her psychiatrist to get her prescription medications too. On the other had she would be involved in an affair with Aryan Khanna, played by the not impressive- Arjun Rampal. Aryan a married superstar works to get his divorce from his wife while being involved in the relationship with our Heroine who is extremely loving at one moment and furiously angry in another. The narration behind the screens also keeps talking about the extreme mood swings.
Aryan fed up with the angry unmanageable side of Mahi dumps her after she screams at him repeatedly. The actress who just begins to experience the downfall of her career path has more sorrow to bear after her beau decides that she isn't the one. Divya Dutta enters the scene as she plays a kind of godmother and also her PR manager and get her out of her woes. Her life gets better as the spoilt heroine take little time to find another love with a popular person Angad Paul, Randeep Hooda, a charismatic cricketer. With life getting better by the minute, Mahi also signs up for an art film directed by a national award winning director (Ranvir Shorey), which also features Shahana Goswami.
The movie has nothing noteworthy to mention with a monotonous theme of love and break-downs repeating. Most part of the later movie makes little sense to the audience. If you are still interested to know what happens in the movie, the theaters are all yours to watch.
Analysis :
Madhur Bhandarkar has tried to become an acclaimed director with real life stories but has made his abysmal mark with this one. He has tried too hard and should try something new. A piece of advice to Madhur Bhandarkar: stop writing for movies and concentrate only on direction. There could hardly be a script that is more hackneyed, dull and unimaginative. Every part of the movie is predictable and the direction does not make up for that. Screenplay didn't fare too well too.
It appears that Madhur Bhandarkar has read a page or two about a few stars and then developed the rest with a complete lack of creative mind. The movie boasted to be the life of a real actress had turned out to be fake on the screen.
Stereotypes everywhere; from gay designers to annoying reporter sporting blng-bling jewelry, dark part, drugs alcohol which are always associated with top positions and there is a list that can go on and on. Except for the lead characters mentioned earlier other people have no part in the movie what so ever. Recently movies have less and less importance to the side roles other than villain, protagonists and supporting actors. This movies seems to have neglected everybody else but the lead roles.
The story tried to gain sympathy from the audience rather than impress them. Mahi's life exemplifies melancholy a far beyond acceptable levels that by the second half you would start cursing yourself for buying tickets for this movie. Not once would you want to sympathize with Kareena. Three hours is an extremely long stretch for love-breakup-repeat theme coupled with the dejected lover going into rage then love again several times in the movie. The only positive point I could spot is that the writers had tried their best to show the ephemeral life of a heroine with all her problems, especially her co-stars, and life after marriage. Dialogues are just fine but overshadowed with the gross direction.
The magnum opus as described by the director is a far cry from a good movie, let alone be his greatest work. This is what happens when you take a movie focusing on several discrete aspects of a person's life all at once. It could have been better by a large measure if the movie showed only a few aspects like her problems off screen and the dipsomania. Madhur Bhandarkar instead thrust the pseudo-lesbian side of the heroine, mentally unstable character and several other needless parts of the movie.
Salim-Sulaiman’s music is relief in the movie with Halkat Jawani, Saiyaan and Heroine. Editor Devendra Murdeshwar is ok; not many glitches in his book. Cinematography by Mahesh Limaye is acceptable.
Performance :
Kareena Kapoor is the only person you can see on screen at all times. The mood swings he shows in the movies are worth appreciating but the timeworn script prevents you from concentrating on Kareena. Arjun Rampal is just fine but not up to the expectations. While Randeep Hooda has improved his acting in the movie playing the charming Angad. Divya Dutta as a PR agent couldn't have fared better. Shahana Goswami and Ranvir Shorey, though insignificant in the movie by large, did pretty well.
Final Word: My humble opinion is that you should give the movie a miss unless you have a fantasy to watch Kareena Kapoor in an almost lesbian scene and few cleavage shows.
(AW- Anil)
