Heroine (Hindi)

Release Date:
September 21, 2012

The film is based on the life and times of a superstar heroine from the dream factory we call 'Bollywood'. The film is an entertaining, daring, emotional, shocking, glamorous, scandalous behind the scenes account of the reality behind the world of glitz and glamour that our film stars inhabit. For a country obsessed with films and film stars, Heroine will take audiences on a voyeuristic journey to see what really goes on behind the closed doors of make up rooms and vanity vans. It will give them a chance to go beyond the gorgeous smiles and politically correct quotes, to see what really happens in the lives of India 's sweethearts - The sniping & the politics, the secrets & the lies, the incredible highs of fame & the lonely depths of failure

The film is based on the life and times of a superstar heroine from the dream factory we call 'Bollywood'. The film is an... Show More

The film is rife with cliches – it is as if Bhandarkar is churning out films with the same old fodder, presenting his view of Bollywood as a hard, calculating, merciless place full of jaunty, gay folk or drama queens emanating of broken homes. I long for him to break out of his C-grade reverie and think out of the box again; good films in Bollywood are getting too few and far between. This is a decent enough film, relatively (primarily due to Kapoor’s capabilities), and can be watched once.