Heroine- Movie Review

Heroine- Movie Review

3 out of 5 stars

If you believe in hard hitting, tear shedding and women centric cinema, Heroine is definitely for U. No doubt, it was a brilliant script with at par performances from most of the actors but this film belongs to Kareena for sure.

Madhur has crafted a niche for himself. Right from the beginning, his films have played mostly with women in the central role and this film, is no different. Chandni baar, Page 3, Traffic signal, Corporate, Fashion and Heroine, each of them are a great cinemtic presentation. But one thing, that pinched me through out the movie was, why does Madhur looks so stagnant while making movies.

He is an incredible director, who knows how to treat with different characters but this time it was obvious that he is more predictable in terms of story and subject handling. Almost same thing, we had witnessed earlier in his movies like  Page 3 and Fashion. It seems to be another episodic attempt on the same subject matter. Cutting short, a super model with a much complex psychological backdrop, goes up and down in her carrier, facing many hurdles, which convert themselves into sheer pain giving incidents.

As I said earlier, Heroine is all about Bebo. The way she carried her role was much convincing. It will not an exaggeration, if I say that she has performed much better than Priyanka (Fashion) and Vidya (The Dirty Picture). Some of the shots really demand standing ovation especially, the one in which she drops the drink to the wife of Ariyan (Arjun Rampal), when she was with Randeep Hooda and journalists catch them and on top of all these, just at the end of the movie, when she was crowded by the journalists and she asks for forgiveness. That silent scene was without any doubt, one of the best sequences of this year in cinema.

Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda and other actors have performed very good in chunks. Script was predictable but convincing. Musical score especially Saiyaan, Halkat Jawani and Main Heroinne Hoon are already in the play list of many of us. On the whole, Madhul has come up once again with a fabulous film and I would have given it 4 stars, provided if he had attempted something different, something out of his comfort zone.