My expectations were sky high for Fashion when I went to see it, for obvious reasons! It’s a Madhur Bhandarkar film for the starters and then all the three girls were looking ravishing in the promos and also it’s about the callous realities of the famous FASHION WORLD…the list is never ending. Anyways, what I’m trying to say is I didn’t come out disappointed! It was riveting, appealing, powerful and for the icing, the performances by everyone were just stupendous…
First I’ll talk about the positives of the film. To begin with, overall script was very slick and tight with some loose ends here and there. The look of the film was majestic, extremely alluring and arresting, much more than any other Madhur’s previous film. It heaves you within 15 mins of the watch and you stay with it almost till the end. It’s persuasive and Madhur Bhandarkar sticks to his sensibilities…Each and every actor was in the character’s skin to the deep. Everyone is very plausible and the casting is apt to the teeth.
Among the female actors, Priyanka was extremely convincing and easily, it’s
her THE best performance till date. I prefer this performance over Aitraaz. Watch her in the party scene where she tries drugs for the first time. She makes you believe that she is on drugs…watch her expressions and moves. And the scene immediately after that indubitably put her in the league of “actresses”… She has proved that she can act and Aitraaz wasn’t a fluke!
Kangana, as usual, was imposing and played the role with full conviction and wallop…she made Shonali Gujral’s imaginary character (not really though) into a bona fide person and your heart goes out for her as and how you see her devastation, personally and professionally…
But for me, the surprise package was Mugdha Godse! She just made me fall in love with Janet Sequiera (her character)…I was just pleasantly astonished with her performance…this may be because I wasn’t expecting anything from her… I was not really sure about her initially…I thought she would be in the same cohort of all those furniture-turned-model-turned-actors like Aishwarya Rais, Tanushree Duttas, Koena Mitras, Sameera Reddys and Nisha Kotharis etc. who spend more time in fornt of the mirror than the camera but I’m so relieved that she proved me wrong! Man, she can act and how! Though she doesn’t have those conventional look of Bollywood heroines but she definitely has the potential…It would be very unfortunate if Indian filmmakers decide to see through her and keep taking artificial, L’Oreal faces in their films!!!
Even though it’s a female centric film, male actors do leave their marks and stay with you even after the film. Arjan shows confidence and was natural, Arbaaz
was effective, Harsh Chhaya was in form but the one who steals the show from all the other male actors was Sameer Soni, who got quite a lot footage and was enormously remarkable in his exposé of a gay fashion designer. There is something in his personality which makes him look a very warm person, you want to know him personally and make friends with him…
The performance by the rest of the cast was equally good…Kitu Gidwani, Raj Babbar, Suchitra Pillai, Priyanka’s friends, model coordinator in the starting, everyone was entirely into the skin of the characters they were playing…
Another positive about the film is its music…the theme music is effective and stays with you, Jalwa song makes you vibrate and dance, Mar Jawa is another underrated yet brilliant song, Aashiyana is a song that’s a must-have for your collection…
Now the flaws… though not many but certainly an encumbrance which impedes it turning into a path-breaking, cult film. The most obvious among all is the length of the film! It’s almost 3 hrs long! All the films this year which were more than 120 to 150 mins bombed at box office and mind it; they were the biggest in lot… Drona, Love Story 2050, Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic, Krazzy 4 and even Jodha Akbar was not a super-duper success… Film should’ve been at least 30 mins shorter and there was scope in the script but I think Mr. Bhandarkar got carried away…
Other flaws are also not avoidable… Madhur claimed that he was researching on the film since last 4 years and the show-stoppers of the fashion shows in his film, were the FIRST ones to walk the ramp!!! Were you in coma for 4 years Mr. Bhandarkar? The name itself is so self explanatory…It’s SHOW-STOPPER which literally means the one who stops/ends the show, so where is the confusion? Primary school anyone???
Another problem with the film, STRICTLY according to me, was the banal representation of the characters, e.g. all the gay designers…all of them were loud, on-your-face and suffers from panic attacks! I mean c’mon…we all know that 95% of fashion industry is gay but why their portrayal is always so passé and over-the-top? Right from Sholay to Fashion, depiction of gays is always hackneyed in our films, with few exceptions like My Brother Nikhil here and there… I want to request all the Indian filmmakers who are making films on homosexuality, plz buy the DVD of Brokeback Mountain straight away and have a look…
Also because of the uncanny resemblance of Fashion world with Page 3 world, the film ended up looking like a re-run of Mr. Bhandarkar’s previous eye-opener, Page 3…
But nevertheless and after all said and done, the film still manages to affect you in more than one way… It’s refreshing, realistic, unpretentious and above all, novel!
In spite of getting inspired from any other Hollywood film, Mr. Bhandarkar preferred to get inspired by real life incidents in Indian fashion industry like wardrobe malfunction, and the unfortunate Geetanjali Nagpal incident to name a few…
Though I’m not reviewing the film but it definitely deserves 3 stars out of 5 and a must watch… Madhur Bhandarkar is back and how! If we look at the issue of morality in Bhandarkar's cinema, then all his protagonists reach a stage in their life when they cannot look themselves in the eye. There are thousands of reasons to watch the film and very few for not watching it…
Go for it, you’ll not be disenchanted…Fashion ka hai yeh jalwa!!!
First I’ll talk about the positives of the film. To begin with, overall script was very slick and tight with some loose ends here and there. The look of the film was majestic, extremely alluring and arresting, much more than any other Madhur’s previous film. It heaves you within 15 mins of the watch and you stay with it almost till the end. It’s persuasive and Madhur Bhandarkar sticks to his sensibilities…Each and every actor was in the character’s skin to the deep. Everyone is very plausible and the casting is apt to the teeth.
Among the female actors, Priyanka was extremely convincing and easily, it’s
her THE best performance till date. I prefer this performance over Aitraaz. Watch her in the party scene where she tries drugs for the first time. She makes you believe that she is on drugs…watch her expressions and moves. And the scene immediately after that indubitably put her in the league of “actresses”… She has proved that she can act and Aitraaz wasn’t a fluke!Kangana, as usual, was imposing and played the role with full conviction and wallop…she made Shonali Gujral’s imaginary character (not really though) into a bona fide person and your heart goes out for her as and how you see her devastation, personally and professionally…
But for me, the surprise package was Mugdha Godse! She just made me fall in love with Janet Sequiera (her character)…I was just pleasantly astonished with her performance…this may be because I wasn’t expecting anything from her… I was not really sure about her initially…I thought she would be in the same cohort of all those furniture-turned-model-turned-actors like Aishwarya Rais, Tanushree Duttas, Koena Mitras, Sameera Reddys and Nisha Kotharis etc. who spend more time in fornt of the mirror than the camera but I’m so relieved that she proved me wrong! Man, she can act and how! Though she doesn’t have those conventional look of Bollywood heroines but she definitely has the potential…It would be very unfortunate if Indian filmmakers decide to see through her and keep taking artificial, L’Oreal faces in their films!!!
Even though it’s a female centric film, male actors do leave their marks and stay with you even after the film. Arjan shows confidence and was natural, Arbaaz
was effective, Harsh Chhaya was in form but the one who steals the show from all the other male actors was Sameer Soni, who got quite a lot footage and was enormously remarkable in his exposé of a gay fashion designer. There is something in his personality which makes him look a very warm person, you want to know him personally and make friends with him…The performance by the rest of the cast was equally good…Kitu Gidwani, Raj Babbar, Suchitra Pillai, Priyanka’s friends, model coordinator in the starting, everyone was entirely into the skin of the characters they were playing…
Another positive about the film is its music…the theme music is effective and stays with you, Jalwa song makes you vibrate and dance, Mar Jawa is another underrated yet brilliant song, Aashiyana is a song that’s a must-have for your collection…
Now the flaws… though not many but certainly an encumbrance which impedes it turning into a path-breaking, cult film. The most obvious among all is the length of the film! It’s almost 3 hrs long! All the films this year which were more than 120 to 150 mins bombed at box office and mind it; they were the biggest in lot… Drona, Love Story 2050, Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic, Krazzy 4 and even Jodha Akbar was not a super-duper success… Film should’ve been at least 30 mins shorter and there was scope in the script but I think Mr. Bhandarkar got carried away…
Other flaws are also not avoidable… Madhur claimed that he was researching on the film since last 4 years and the show-stoppers of the fashion shows in his film, were the FIRST ones to walk the ramp!!! Were you in coma for 4 years Mr. Bhandarkar? The name itself is so self explanatory…It’s SHOW-STOPPER which literally means the one who stops/ends the show, so where is the confusion? Primary school anyone???
Another problem with the film, STRICTLY according to me, was the banal representation of the characters, e.g. all the gay designers…all of them were loud, on-your-face and suffers from panic attacks! I mean c’mon…we all know that 95% of fashion industry is gay but why their portrayal is always so passé and over-the-top? Right from Sholay to Fashion, depiction of gays is always hackneyed in our films, with few exceptions like My Brother Nikhil here and there… I want to request all the Indian filmmakers who are making films on homosexuality, plz buy the DVD of Brokeback Mountain straight away and have a look…
Also because of the uncanny resemblance of Fashion world with Page 3 world, the film ended up looking like a re-run of Mr. Bhandarkar’s previous eye-opener, Page 3…
But nevertheless and after all said and done, the film still manages to affect you in more than one way… It’s refreshing, realistic, unpretentious and above all, novel!
In spite of getting inspired from any other Hollywood film, Mr. Bhandarkar preferred to get inspired by real life incidents in Indian fashion industry like wardrobe malfunction, and the unfortunate Geetanjali Nagpal incident to name a few…
Though I’m not reviewing the film but it definitely deserves 3 stars out of 5 and a must watch… Madhur Bhandarkar is back and how! If we look at the issue of morality in Bhandarkar's cinema, then all his protagonists reach a stage in their life when they cannot look themselves in the eye. There are thousands of reasons to watch the film and very few for not watching it…
Go for it, you’ll not be disenchanted…Fashion ka hai yeh jalwa!!!
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