A Disappointing Continuation

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Madhur Bhandarkar willfully tried to break his fading routine style with DIL TO BACCHA HAI JI, but couldn't find any takers. So he forcibly returned to his good old winning formula of realistic films and made HEROINE revolving around his own film industry and its dark secrets. Now no doubt he once again successfully serves you a fine lead performance along with some severe scandalous revelations as per his unique style. Yet, this time it's more repetition all through the movie for a common man rather than having some fresh original content from the thoughtful director. The last year Hit THE DIRTY PICTURE, his own FASHION and the recent RAAZ 3, made on the similar subjects might be one of the reasons of this 'seen before' kind of feeling from the film. But the conclusion is that the master is not at his best in HEROINE and fails to give you something novel as always expected from him according to his own fixed standards.HEROINE straight away begins with a tense scene and then picks up rarely in its 148 minutes of duration, unable to generate any kind of lasting impression on the viewer. The film majorly lacks on the entertainment quotient since it doesn't have any major entertaining or enjoyable sequences right till the end and becomes too slow (& stretched) post intermission. Thankfully, Kareena scores well & looks stunning with one of her career best performances which remains the only reason why it can be watched once, in order to honor her honest attempt. The lady is in her boldest avatar ever in HEROINE and also gets terrific support from the entire cast featuring Helen, Shahana Goswami, Randeep Hooda, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta, Govind Namdev, Mugdha Godse and Sanjay Suri in that given order. Cinematography and Background Score does not give you anything special to enjoy but the costume designers do give you many open spaces in their dresses to peep in.To be honest, I strongly disagree with Madhur's outlook this time as he goes completely NEGATIVE in the film degrading the already frightful image of the film industry further to many folds. In fact the only positive scenes & dialogues in HEROINE are the ones featuring HELEN posing as an old time successful actress who is not treated well by the present industry people in her old age. And apart from that, every single character in its script is an opportunist who is just interested in using the other person for his own benefit and nothing else. So you have a purely humiliating or shameful depiction of the Film Industry here in HEROINE revealed by a veteran director of the industry himself. In other words, its a VIBHISHAN kind of act by Madhur Bhandarkar in which he ridicules his own chosen industry, reveals its ugly darker side like a insider and makes fun of it in the end with an open climax. In a broader sense it's all a mutual game going on here in the materialistic world where everyone is using each other for their own hidden interests. And the Film Industry isn't the only negative industry in existence as portrayed by the film in particular. The dark features prevalent in film business can easily be found in all the other major businesses too involving big investments. But the problem here is that Madhur in HEROINE paints such a dreadful image of the industry on the screen which straight away gives you a strong impression that there cannot be anything worst than the Film Industry in the entire world. Watching the kind of relationships shown in the film where veterans are not respected, directors are thrown out of the offices by shutting down their months old projects, roles are cut on the editing table, publicity is planned for only a chosen few, actors are signed on hidden recommendations, films are planned like canned food and sex is practiced in its all (questionable) forms ranging from straight, gay & lesbians……I seriously doubt any concerned parent would like to send his daughter or son in the film line after seeing HEROINE.Interestingly, the last year's hit THE DIRTY PICTURE was also about this dark revelation of the film line. But there the director was more interested in entertaining the audience with some great mix of fun, song, dance, sex and drama. But here in HEROINE, such is the impact of negativity sprayed on the screen by Madhur Bhandarkar that one is bound to ask that "Is there nothing positive or good in the Film Industry at all?"In fact that is the biggest failure of this project since it only stresses upon the negative side of a coin and tries to sell itself like an evil film to the audience. Quite strangely Madhur doesn't include even a single positive scene in his script which tries to highlight the few good people functioning in the industry too along with the bad ones. In truth, negativity or evil cannot survive alone in existence as it does need the assistance of goodness essentially to make its presence felt. But since Madhur only deals with the evil in HEROINE, it falls flat and fails to impress.Besides, the release time of HEROINE itself is a spoof on its director and producers themselves since they exactly do the same thing in real life as planned by the fading actress Mahie in their script to gain some extra free publicity on her new film's release. In the film she leaks an intimate video clip to the media for getting a good opening at the box office and in real life Madhur smartly plans the release of his film on Kareena Kapoor's actual birthday.Because in reality….its all Show Business and a part of the game.

Heroine was a film with plot holes and subsequent weak script but was watchable thanks to stupendous and courageous performance by Kareena Kapoor Heroine tells the story of a an popular actress who has everything - beautiful looks , fame , money but still has a very lonely and depressing life due to insecurity as she goes through the various phases of living a Bollywood Dream Directed by national award winner of Chandni Bar , Page 3 and Fashion , Madhur Bhandarkar misses the mark with this film. The film begins on loose ends confusing the audience about the story. Frankly speaking , 1st half is a complete bore and hopeless. However , the silver lining is few grasping moments in the 2nd half coupled by Kareena's brave performance makes it worth-watching at least once. The theme of the movie was good but Bhandarkar's repetitive introduction of character right from page 3 till heroine makes it realize as if you are watching the same movie. Screenplay has lot of loop holes . Story is boring. Art direction is just about OK along with cinematography. Music is decent with Halkat Jawani being the pick of the lot. Coming to the performances , it is Kareena's show all the way. The gorgeous actress proves her mettle and goes one step further to display her histrionic character with aplomb. Shahana Goswami, Divya Dutta and Randeep Hooda were good in smaller rolesOverall , a movie that had potential to be a great film !!! Though the film is titled Heroine but Kareena is actually the Hero of the film. Average 2 / 5

So much for all the hype and anticipation surrounding "heroine". The movie is basically a collection of some of the most discussed and hyped "kisse" from our bollywood. in Bhandarkar's pitch to combine all these incidents (which supposedly aim to shock the audience, however fail miserably!), he has completely lost the plot. There is no specific story line which is the biggest drawback.Some of the incidents, like the one about mahi tries adopting a kid, just feels absolutely disconnected from the movie, it actually made me think wat a waste of such a good actress.Also the film lacks any major/good actors, actors like sanjay suri, mugdha godse and some other newbies just aren't convincing and fail to make any impact. I longed for some good actors to match up with the amazing kareena but disappointment again.Randeep Hooda plays his part perfectly however he doesn't have a very important role in the movie. Arjun Rampal! I don't know why does he still get movies, he seems expressionless as usual.Kareena is great as always with her perfect portrayal of a beautiful, insecure, short tempered actress. But there is an awful lot of crying to her share and after a point it loses its impact. the item song is a treat to the eye, the number is catchy too.All in all the movie doesn't do justice to the amazing acting prowess of kareena and pathetically fails to unfold any story behind stardom. Watch if you are a kareena fan or if you have a free ticket! anyways, we would see it on the TV soon ;)

Heroine. The amazing trailers and the famous song 'Halkat Jawani' would compel anyone to know what the movie is about. But like a majority of movies even Heroine fails to be as good as the trailer portrays it to be. As the movie progresses one would find themselves constantly comparing it to 'Fashion'. Even though i am not a Kareena Kapoor fan, I'd admit that after 'Jab We Met', this is going to be among one of her most noticed performances, as there are few scenes which she has carried out with utter perfection. The constant use of 'babes' and the word 'shits' gets irritating after sometime. A one time watch is what I'd call it. And in my opinion Priyanka in Fashion >>>>>> Kareena in Heroine :)