Good movie but grossly overrated

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Bollywood movie industry has started making realistic films. This movie explores the world of fashion and all those who wish to be model won't get inspired after watching this film. "In the world of fashion you have to compromise more than just your morals." Models here are alcoholics and drug addicts.Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) is a small town middle class girl who wants to be a model, especially after winning a beauty contest. After many procedures she becomes one and many problems starts to occur.Movie is directed well with lots of effort from the cast and the crew. Costumes are all nice showing the present day fashion. Priyanka Chopra surprisingly delivered a good performance. She has taken a lot of effort for role. Kangna Ranaut's role was more challenging and she pulled it off easily. The newcomer Mugda Godse also did her part well.The songs are good and the background score is excellent. The title music of fashion is stupendous. Overall it is a good movie especially towards the end. The last one hour is the best in this film.7/10

Madhur's films are reality driven mostly, like CHANDNI BAR, SATTA, TRAFFIC SIGNAL, PAGE 3 This time he shows the world of FASHION but sadly his research, ideas of Fashion seem too naive, superficiallike how does a supermodel not know about the no marriage clause and many thingsThe film could be handled better and though certain scenes like wardrobe malfunction, Kangana's character and some more are handled wellThe overall film is damn predictable, too simplistic and ends like a one dimensional filmThe ease at which Priyanka becomes a big model in the end is too much and also Madhur tries to show the bad side a bit too much also too many gays in the film, why? The entire sleeping with a black scene seems too much Madhur does handle some scenes well but overall not his best film Music is goodPriyanka does her part well but her make up, dresses, hairstyle are bad many times, that too for a model Her acting is good enough and manages to convey the turmoil.etc Kangana Ranaut steals the show with a natural performance, but she needs to get off this similar roles now Arbaaz Khan is good, Harsh is excellent Arjan Bajwa is good, Mugdha Godse is excellent, Sameer Soni is alright, Kitu Gidwani is adequate

Fashion was a really nice movie, and mostly it was it was showing the life of models. It even shows the models dark side, not only smoking, drinking etc. Priyanka Chopra did a very good acting as Meghna Mathur. But I felt that if she could have given a bit more expressions it would have been a better film. Kangana Raunat did a satisfying role as Shonali Gujral. She was into her character. Specially then when she had to act drunken etc. I guess she was the one who acted the best in this movie. But I still think the movie could be made shorter. She really showed how ambitious she was. Priyanka really showed how nicely she could act and do cat walk. I think Madhur Bhandarkar has made a really successful and real life based movie. His movie has a depth and shows the real life of models. You all should go and see this incredible movie.

"Page 3", "Corporate", "Chandni Bar", "Traffic Signal", the previous efforts of Madhur Bhandarkar, wore their ragged production values as a badge of honor: the grainy film stock, the tatty wardrobes, the casts that appeared to be recruited right off the streets were meant to indicate a seriousness of purpose and a defiance of the accepted Hindi film aesthetic. These films were gritty, unlovely, a tad too earnest, and somewhat salacious, for, in their quest to expose societal filth, they had much in common with tabloid journalism and trash TV. What elevated them, however, was Bhandarkar's knack for drawing out strong performances from his actors. "Page 3" exposed, without any discernible glee, and more's the pity, the tawdry lives of socialites but gave film-viewers a vivacious Konkana Sen Sharma and a hard-as-nails Atul Kulkarni, while "Chandni Bar", a gloomy look at the lives of bar dancers, offered a piece de resistance performance from Tabu. I haven't seen "Corporate" or "Traffic Signal", but suspect they are similarly plodding and humorless.Bhandarkar's production budget was certainly quadrupled for his newest opus, "Fashion" to depict the glitz and glamor of the latest industry to come under his gimlet-eyed scrutiny. "Fashion" boasts slick production values, a thumping techno soundtrack, but unfortunately, not a lot of fun. Fashion, a worldwide multi-billion dollar industry, is certainly a serious business, but to be entertainment, it shouldn't take itself unduly seriously, because—let's face it—astrophysics and neuro-surgery, it ain't. Sure, the business has always attracted the pretty and none-too-bright, as also the predatory and disreputable, but if Bhandarkar's take on it is as accurate as touted, it has lost the all-important aspect of fun, which is what makes it attractive to millions the world over.Shobha Dé documents the infancy of the Indian fashion scene in her vastly entertaining memoir "Selective Memory". In one amusing anecdote, an industry lech proposes that the three young models Shobha, Zeenat Aman, and Asha Puthli perform a striptease for him. While the naïve Shobha and Zeenat are horrified, Asha Puthli giggles her readiness and darts off to her room to prepare. She emerges wrapped in shredded newspaper, does a saucy little dance, and says to the creep, "You got your striptease: here are the strips"—pointing to her newspaper costume; "and I am the tease." In the ensuing laughter, the man loses the nerve to pursue them further. It was this crucial element of light-heartedness that is missing from "Fashion". Sadly, Puthli, who also acted in the early Merchant-Ivory film "The Savages", vanished a long time ago, a rumored victim of drug addiction. I wonder if it is because fashion is now big business in India, as it always was elsewhere, that Bhandarkar doesn't find much levity in his enterprise."Fashion" tells the story of three fashion models at different stages in their careers: dewy fresh, somewhat plump Meghna (Priyanka Chopra) is the small-town girl recently arrived in Mumbai with a ferocious drive to succeed; Shonali (Kangna Ranaut) is the fine-boned, wild-maned reigning queen of the ramp, while Janet (sprightly newcomer Mugdha Godse) is the worldly long-time model who's never struck it big. Right off the bat, Meghna acquires a fairy (of course, he's gay) godmother Rohan, fashion industry small fry with some tenuous access to the bigwigs. Predictably, we witness Meghna's ascendancy even as Shonali's star is on the wane. The race is on, and it seems the one who can look more sullen who will emerge triumphant. Sensible Janet, ever on the sidelines, proffers nuggets of wisdom to upwardly-mobile Meghna, and settles for a marriage of convenience with a successful closeted gay designer. Shonali turns increasingly erratic, suffering drug addiction and much degradation from a parasitic lover, while Meghna, newly svelte, hardened and callous, nimbly steps into the top position, despite some dangerously high heels.If "Fashion" works as a cautionary tale, it is due to Kangna Ranaut and Priyanka Chopra, who rise above a rudimentary script, devoid of subtlety or nuance, and deliver haunting performances. Both have taken on daring (by Indian standards) roles depicting drug abuse, along with some truly scary scenes requiring them to appear without makeup. While not exactly bimbos, they do appear to confuse hubris with confidence and throw hissy fits that underscore their pettiness. But the girls succeed in bringing out the human frailties, ambitions, and hopes of the characters.Despite Madhur Bhandarkar's insistence that "Fashion" is the result of diligent research, the characters are stereotypical. The models are relentlessly vapid and all the gay characters (save one—the closeted one) flounce and lisp. Is this Bhandarkar's idea of humor? Stanley Tucci in "The Devil Wears Prada" is frighteningly efficient, clever, funny, and long-suffering, and one perceives immediately why he is the Meryl Streep character's right-hand man. He is gay, but that is never belabored.Smart writing would have punched up the proceedings, and made "Fashion" more watchable. Reality isn't all it's cracked up to be, and we're usually at the movies to escape it. Realistic cinema doesn't have to be as boring as real life; that's where artistic license comes in. I did like Kittu Gidwani, a model from the 'eighties who graduated to movie roles, looking remarkably fit and fine, playing the morally ambiguous fixer at the fictitious agency named Panache, where our model heroines futilely battle for supremacy. Panache is owned by one Abhijit Sarin—played with reptilian sang-froid by Arbaaz Khan—with Gidwani, stubbing out one cigarette after another with her long elegant fingers, as his prime enabler. The married Sarin routinely beds "the Face of Panache", whoever she might be at a given moment, and heartlessly inserts anti-pregnancy clauses into modeling contracts. They could have been cartoonish villains, but the pair possesses too much chic and—let's say—panache, to let their characters become laughable."Fashion" aspires to be serious cinema, but given its theme and scope, should have opted to be light as a soufflé, the better to get its point across.