On the fifth day of the ongoing Ganesh Festival, several people called to compliment the efficient handling of traffic and other arrangements. please spare us further torture!”Īfter a really bad spell of cop baiting, our Mumbai Police have finally redeemed themselves a little in the eyes of citizens. By the end of this over long, over wrought,tedious exercise, one feels like groaning, “ Babes…. The rest of the characters are almost laughable in their one-dimensional, caricatural monotony.Take away Kareena’s incandescent beauty and passionate, almost flawless interpretation of a really poorly written role, and what do you have? Cartoons babbling away in a movie that’s defined by incoherence and ineptness. Her stellar performance as Mahi keeps viewer interest afloat and frankly, it is too heavy a burden for any single individual to bear. If people are still watching it with interest, it is for Kareena. Had it been any other actress but Kareena Kapoor, the film would have collapsed on the first day itself. The starting point for the required introspection should be the clumsy script, the loose story line, the lack of attention to details ( Chateau Margaux on ice ? Ouch!), and an over indulgent, almost arrogant approach to the subject. But it would be worth asking himself where he went wrong. Madhur’s a tough guy and he’ll take the attacks in his stride. The knives are out … and that is how the cookie crumbles in this business. Since the boast was that ‘ Heroine’ would be the first female-driven Bollywood movie to crash through the 100- crore ceiling, its lukewarm box office performance has Madhur’s rivals on a rampage. Success silences detractors like nothing else. No problem… had the movie been a super hit.
Madhur has ruffled far too many feathers in ‘Heroine’. Fraternity is fraternity, howsoever hypocritical that sounds.
You don’t devour your contemporaries and not pay the price… remember the old dog-eats-dog theory? This, in an industry that is known for its lopsided loyalties and absurd protectiveness. In his latest, ‘Heroine’, Madhur has overplayed his card, in that he has cannibalized his own. Sometimes, this singular approach, devoid of complexity or insights, works big time ( ‘Chandni Bar’ ), sometimes it collapses on itself. Madhur’s movies follow a simple, or rather, a simplistic path – he picks a field ( fashion, society, corporate life, bars ) and constructs an unwieldy narrative around the central character – generally a luscious lady. Madhur has created his own genre, his own brand – take it or leave it. I like Madhur a lot – he is gutsy, self made and his movies are his own.Importantly, he doesn’t clone anybody else’s style. “I feel happy when you hate my film….then I know it will be a hit,” said Madhur Bhandarkar to me recently… and we both laughed at the irony.
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