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Heroine
Critic reviews and ratings
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...yet another hard-hitting motion picture from Madhur Bhandarkar.
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...the saving grace of the film is Kareena who not only looks drop-dead gorgeous but is also adept as the girl interrupted.
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If you are a Madhur Bhandarkar fan, I would recommend you skip this one. One, it may be disappointing; two, you’ve seen all this before. If you are a Kareena Kapoor fan, it’s a treat.
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Except for a difficult performance by Kareena Kapoor and the lost character she plays, Heroine is one dramatic scene after another without anything substantial.
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...can be quite a guilty pleasure if one isn’t too overwhelmed with the cliches and doesn’t find the entire sleight of hand typically over the top.
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Madhur Bhandarkar, toasted for the heroine-oriented scripts he creates, has just given us his weakest female protagonist yet. That itself lays bare the irony about the film titled Heroine.
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Truly Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine is stale, a late delivery already pipped to the post by the far more incisive The Dirty Picture.
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...overbearing, desperate and agonizingly long.
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The film that Bhandarkar has made is indeed disappointingly mechanical.
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...is nothing but a rehashed version of Madhur's earlier movies...
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Madhur Bhandarkar holds on to his Fashion formula, fearing to deviate and let go.
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...a string of drab cliches, despite a strong performance from leading lady Kareena Kapoor.
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...has an episodic feel to it. The movie is a merger of various personalities, which unfortunately don’t fall on the same page in the end. Making it seem disjointed and amateurish.
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...to say the least is a disappointing fair...
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Bhandarkar loses his grip on the script, and it’s evident that his storytelling now desperately needs reinventing.
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...is too much of everything but not enough of anything.
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At one point in Heroine, a character asks: Iss glamour industry mein kaun fraud nahin hota. This film certainly is one.
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...a patchy work of cinema, but, ultimately, it communicates.
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Lights, camera, sensation.
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...a damp squib. Bhandarkar’s years in the industry are obviously not the fodder for this film. We have heard this story many times before; he has no new interpretation.
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...a muddled and jerky screenplay, a plethora of clichés, and visuals that are surprisingly tacky for a film of this budget.
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The only realistic thing here is that Bollywood is as predictable as a Bhandarkar film.
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...the most damning aspect of the film is that neither Kareena Kapoor’s character nor her portrayal of it elicits our empathy.
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The saving grace of this film is Kapoor, who holds her own despite an inept screenplay that is keen to sensationalize rather than empathize for the protagonist.
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So now for the million dollar question, how is the movie? One word: Disastrous.
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As Madhur Bhandarkar repeats his template yet again, one is tempted to rehash one’s previous reviews.
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