Heroine

Not worth the hype and promotions. Average flick.

Pluses:

• Ranvir Shorey did his part well, however even his image had to be much more stronger as a character, which is absolutely a directors fault
• Shahana Goswami, she is one actress who proved is not exactly a directors baby. She can perform given anywhere :) This positive about her can also be a negative where the movie requires you to be a directors baby.Only time shall see how she grows in the industry
• Lillete Dubey was a beautiful mother. I loved her
• There were strong presence of dialogues and the story did have the potential. Alas!! All mis placed.
• Thanks to Salim-Sulaiman for making 'Halkat Jawani' and Sunidhi Chauhan for singing it so beautifully. One should pay attention to only the track and ignore the video completely
• All the pluses are more or less merely vote of thanks :P There is absolutely nothing to flourish the movie

Minuses:

• The direction entirely is to be blamed for. I wonder if Madhur Bhandarkar himself directed it. The expectations are a lot and sad that he disappointed this time
• Next is the casting. The entire cast was just not apt. Be it Kareena, who looks half her star image; be it Arjun Rampal, quite a suprressed character; or be it Randeep Hooda, the cricketer image looked like a prank on him :P Or even the supporting casts, the small time actors, directos, actresses etc that they portrayed, none had a star image, all looked like small screen actors
• I would like to mention Kareena Kapoor yet again, as she is supposed to be the soul of the movie. She just doesnt look like a larger than life character, be it off screen or on screen. She looks rather dull barring a few scenes past interval. A big mistake. She might be able to sell herself with endorsements but surely not movies and one of those central characters, no ways
• The plot was dealing with glamor industry, the same as we have seen in 'Fashion', the only plus that could have saved the movie would have been the direction, failing which the plot fell apart
• The script had to be more crisp. I have no idea what kinda character sketch was that of 'Mahi Arora', a very confused and laid-back somebody. Did Madhur try to portray one of a case from Bollywood or did he try make a ugly remark on all actresses that they are bipolar in nature :P
• However, there were one or two tracks which were musically good, but the choreography just killed it. The biggest example being 'Halkat Jawani'
• The entire movie just felt very garish. Even those few strong dialogues couldnt save it

My rating: 2/5