Calendar Girls

Cast: Akanksha Puri(Nandita), Avani Modi(Nazneen),Kyra Dutt(Sharon), Ruhi Singh(Mayuri), Satarupa Pyne(Paroma), Rohit Roy, Keith Sequeira(Pinaki), Vikram Sakhalkar(Harsh Narang), Atul Parchure(Mayuri's Manager), Rushad Rana(Anirudh) and Indraneil Sengupta(Shashank)
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Genre: Drama



A good story, with wrong casting and make! Watchable!




You may look forward to:

• Unlike 'Heroine' which was some level of exaggeration, this film has a much better story that you can relate to as you hear from the bizz news. The film stars five new girls, mostly models, there are individual stories and are edited well. The pace of the film and the inter connectivity is good. You wont get bored and entertainment is in its place
• All the lead females of the film displays vivid characteristics. As rightly said in the film, its not about the industry, its the individual choices. Akanksha Puri gets a situational role model to play, where most the things are not in her control; Avani Modi ably plays the plight of a woman caught in religious tangles and how wrong decisions can wrong your life irreversibly; Kyra Dutt plays a very head strong woman, most of the time sorted; Ruhi Singh plays a very focussed woman with a tunnel vision and Satarupa Pyne plays an unsteady character who is more vulnerable to love and easily falls into trap if emotionally weakened, not otherwise! All of them do a just job to their respective roles, kudos!
• All the men in the film viz, Rohit Roy, Keith Sequeira, Vikram Sakhalkar, Atul Parchure, Rushad Rana and Indraneil Sengupta dont really have a lead role in the female centric film, but they have apt supporting roles. Again a fine balance portraying each person is different in characteristics and attitude, no typecasting men in general!

What you can sleep over:

• The music of the film is average. It doesn't irritate!
• If you are expecting oomph factor in the film with loads of skin show, you are in for a disappointment!

The dampeners you should be aware of:

• Quality in Madhur Bhandarkar movies has certainly gone down. The presentation of the film felt kind of B grade, with the actresses just budding out of the shell, with okay acting skills, really fails to make any impact. Such films, no matter the story line can pick up only if there are stars in it, the videography to top it, is a big let down!
• This film is way out of date for the plot. There was a time when calendar girls were a big thing, but not anymore. This film is at least a decade old, out of its time. Right time, with right star cast could have given Madhur Bhandarkar his due hit

My Rating: 3/5

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