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Heroine Movie Reviews
Here are the reviews for Heroine: Ratings:3.5/5 Reviewer: Taran Adarsh Site:Bollywood Hungama HEROINE astounds you with its brutal bluntness. Also, the director illustrates the heartrending and lamentable realities of the movie world brilliantly. On the flip side, although the writing borrows from reality and has ample shock value, the writers could've avoided a few episodes in Mahi's story, which seem unimportant. HEROINE is Kareena's film all the way and she delivers an award-worthy performance.On the whole, HEROINE is yet another hard-hitting motion picture from Madhur Bhandarkar. For persistently choosing women-centric themes, for consistently winning national acclaim and most significantly, magnetizing moviegoers in large numbers to view his cinema, the efforts of the maverick film-maker deserve to be lauded. Watch HEROINE for Madhur's imposing direction, for Kareena's superlative performance, watch it also for its fearless, inspiring and enlightening storyline divulging the scandalous realities of the movie industry. Try not to miss it. Ratings:3/5 Reviewer: Meena Iyer Site:Times of india Very clearly the written material at hand draws from unflattering accounts of various real and reel Hindi film heroines of the 80s who were in messy situations with their married co-stars. The film is made enjoyable by some pithy dialogue credited to Niranjan Iyengar. Heroine would have been crisper had it not digressed to cover every Bollywood insider account. Of course the saving grace of the film is Kareena who not only looks drop-dead gorgeous but is also adept as the girl interrupted. Heroine is Kareena's Dirty Picture. The actress has shown ample cleavage and partaken in some really intimate bedroom scenes. Definitely worth a dekho. Ratings:- Reviewer: Manjusha Radhakrishnan Site:gulfnews For those who are enchanted by Bollywood and its troubled stars, this film is delightfully voyeuristic as it takes you into their sexy-yet-shady world. While the film’s first half is brisk, the second half meanders but manages to get its act together towards the end. There are some obvious loopholes -- such as how a top actress such as Mahi can be this isolated from the human race and reality -- but the weak links aside it’s a satisfying watch. Ratings:2 for the film and one extra one for Bebo. Reviewer: Shomini Sen Site:Zeenews The film could easily be written off but for Kareena’s performance. As the bi-polar, erratic, insecure and vulnerable fading star, Kareena gives a superb performance. She looks beautiful, glamorous and makes Mahi her own. In fact, some of the incidents seem to be lifted straight out of Kareena’s life (yes, there is an MMS scandal as well). Kareena, who has for a long time been used as a glamour quotient in Rs 100 crore films, gets a meaty role and gives it her best shot. Some of the scenes in the film, although a bit unnecessary, need courage to be enacted and it comes as a surprise when a hard-core commercial actress like Kareena agrees to do such scenes. And then, does them so convincingly. Ratings:2/5 . Reviewer: Saibal Chatterjee Site: NDTV It’s all in here: tension-ridden Page 3 parties, smarmy celebrities bent upon pulling the rug from under each other’s feet, a sniggering underclass hovering around the charmed circle and hurling jibes at the glitterati and mealy-mouthed gossip columnists out to pull down the high and mighty. Kareena is in virtually every scene in the film. She is particularly good when she dons the no-makeup look and allows herself to go with the flow of the emotions. But when she is called upon to strut around like a heroine, she is, surprisingly, far less convincing. Ratings:2.5/5 . Reviewer: Kanika Sikka Site: DNA The place where the film scores is performances, and mind you, this can’t be said for all the actors. Kareena does a good job, however tries too hard to give a powerful performance, which is very evident. Yet, for her fans, the film is a treat! Arjun does a good job. Randeep, as usual does justice to his role. Shahana Goswami is brilliant, but it is unfortunate that her role is limited. Helen has a charming role and she plays it effectively. All said and done, the film may be a one-time watch. But if you expected too much out of the film, it may not be worth the anticipation and your money. Ratings:1.5/5 . Reviewer: Roshni Devi Site: Koimoi What’s Good: Some performances; the title track and Saiyaan song. What’s Bad: The story and script seem to be in an endless loop; stereotypical, uni-dimensional characters; Kareena’s frequent breakdowns in the movie. Loo Break: Any number of times. Watch or Not?: Heroine movie irritates more than entertains, but some of the performances are nice. Ratings:1.5/5 . Reviewer: Raja Sen Site: Rediff Actually, to be fair, Heroine is quite stupendously glossy, with every actress soaked in bronzer, and much flattering lighting. And the actors really aren't the problem here, each of them -- even the disastrous ones -- earning more than their fare share just for keeping straight faces through this malarkey. Ratings:-. Reviewer: Mayank Shekhar Site: thew14.com A film called Heroine would evidently be a heroine’s journey. We know very little about her to begin with. She was never quite big enough for her downfall or rebirth to matter. For most of the movie, we watch instead her trip from being a “zeroine” to a “zeroine” in a mad, sad jungle. Ratings:-. Reviewer: Kunal Guha Site: Yahoo This is Kareena Kapoor’s first film post ‘Agent Vinod’. So even as her eyeliner bleeds in some of the high-voltage melodramatic scenes, she can’t go any lower than her previous release. Most actresses would kill for a central role like this to demonstrate everything that they have to offer in the acting department. But Kareena takes this opportunity, puts it in a brown paper bag, blows in it, seals the opening and slaps it for an optimal explosion. Arjun Rampal hasn’t managed so many expressions in any film before and his acting skills have surely gone from a 'chair' to a 'dressing table'. Randeep Hooda’s role is limited to a few courtship scenes with Kareena and can be deemed unobjectionable. Divya Dutta has carved a niche for herself and any role that requires shedding of morals for commercial gains will have her name on it.
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I don't care what the reviews say but Heroine is an amazing flick for me. Like really! I watched it at wave Cinemas and Madhur Bhandarkar did absolute justice to the plot. Like it!
Gotta feel sorry for Kareena after having so much confidence that this movie would be her ticket to super stardom where all would bow down to her and say yes you're the greatest, but unfortunately for her this movie had already made its present known a few months back with Vidya Balan's Dirty Pictures.
Lets hope this is a learning lesion for her and all the B'wood actresses who shoot first and aim later.
And ladies (actresses) please try and get along, your put downs of each other turns people off.
One word..........KARMA!!!!!!!!will get you in the end and its the case for heroine.when you keep badmouthing other people instead of paying attention to what you should be doing, you lose your path and give such movies that are not even worth watching once. i live london and everyone coming out of the theater that day was pissed of how bad the movie was after all that hype. huge disappointment indeed.
i say kareena should stay home after she gets married.
that woman can not get rid of her overacting
geezzzzzzzzzzzzz woman learn some proper acting and dont torture everyone with ur underdeveloped acting
@ "Priyanka tries too hard to become jhilmil"
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OH MY GOD!the funniest thing ever.of course you have to try VERY hard to be jhilmil, especially when you are not autistic. channeling a disabled character takes extra effort. in the end the autistic organizations declared it to be very realistic, so your opinion does not matter much man and frankly it's not an accurate one either.
@ "Priyanka tries too hard to become jhilmil"
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OH MY GOD!the funniest thing ever.of course you have to try too hard to be jhilmil, especially when you are no autistic. channeling
@Tue, 2012-09-25 03:11 — Anonymous
While I appreciate ur well written critique of PC's role in Barfi, it's really irrelevant in this post. Maybe go to the Barfi movie page and post it there...
Even PC recieved mixed reviews fr her performance...
Priyanka tries too hard to become jhilmil.this role could have been a steal for the talaented National Award-winning star.Instead she chooses to ply to the gallery.Alittle less wiggling of the fingers,a smaller twitch on the lips and a less elaborate roll of the eyes would have sufficed.
But Chopra is not able to hide the effort she brings to fleshing out Jhilmil, making the part worthy but forced
As Jhilmil, Priyanka Chopra [ Images ], god bless her soul, does indeed try valiantly to play autistic, but -- trapped not just by the film's most flawed character and plotline -- makes that cardinal mistake expressed so unforgettably in Tropic Thunder: she goes full retard. She's not bad, even very effective in a couple of scenes, but her character belongs to a different film. (Ideally a shorter one, because it does drag this one down.)
Priyanka Chopra, officially deglamorised but never looking anything other than oh-so-adorable, makes a valiant effort to inhabit the rather impossible role she’s landed with, but there’s simply no getting away from the deliberately cutesy form that her relationship with Barfi takes.
This movie agains proves that no 1 goes to theatre to see the acting of female lead, if kareena was male salman khan den dis movie wud have broken all bo records ( how worse d script & direction may be).....
Heroine's FIRST weekend collection is as follows : Friday : 7.50Crores. Saturday : 8.50Crores. Sunday : 9Crores.Total is 25Crores.Released in 2400+ screens, over hyped, and Budget is 32Crores or 35Crores.For a wide release of 2400 screens, it should make minimum 11.5Crore on opening day and FIRST weekend SHOULD HAVE been 36Crores.But Heroine has FAILED as it ACTUALLY MADE ONLY 25Crores.And the reviews are too negative, so the collection will drop and go down in the weekdays. So movie can hardly even come under Average, so it will be declared are Below Average movie.At the same time. BARFI's SECOND WEEKED COLLECTION IS 18Crores and that is HUGE because the number of shows of Barfi is very less.Now total collection of Barfi has reached 75Crores+ in India and worldwide 95Crores+.Barfi with a unconventional theme , and hardly 10 dialogues has won the hearts of audiences.If you didnt know, Barfi's FIRST weekend collection was 38+Crores. And Barfi released in ONLY 1400 screens and the budget is 30Crores. Barfi has become an EXTRAORDINARY HIT and might touch 100Crores in India according to trade pundits.I said here about Barfi so that u can see the comparison clearly. Apparently Barfi's 2nd SECOND WEEKEND is 17.10Crores which is only 8Crores less than Heroine.Now you know Barfi has touched the hearts of millions and Heroine has been rejected.
PV kindly post.
Don't go by the reviews. Movie in itself is a journey through ups and downs of a heroine. Just loved Kareena. She has improvised a lot.
One actress is understandably p*ssed by Heroine parallels to her life and affair with Cricketer, IPL and then not marrying him. Bad that instead of learning from movie that bytchy methods bomb or PHD in fighting doesnt help own life, instead of marrying the cricketer and going on path of improving her own life person she looks busy trashing movie and Kareena and blaming Ash for it...as if people don't know that Ash - who is sitting with Douglas in UN meeting and is contented with baby hasnt got time or has no reason to go negative
lol last 5comments are from the same person. Look at the time of comment. Probably pinkvilla_boy 's anonymous account. Faltu flop movie = heroine
Overhyped FLOP!! Madhur/Kareena ego to blame!. Remember how he changed the shooting dates with Ash. It seems he was changing the script on the sets daily. Kareena's destiny was to do this flop. Ash's was to SAVE herself for this disaster movie that could have ended her career! LAME. This had less than 2stars overall from all filmakers except Madhur's drinking buddies.
priyanka will get the best actress award and vidya will get critics award
their performances are far superior than kareena's performance
actually they are far superior actresses than kareena.
I was shocked!!!!!!! Awful script, rather no script at all. No sense of proper direction, supporting cast was horrible, except for Divya Dutta and Randeep Hooda. Arjun Rampal is pathetic and clueless in the film, no surprise there! AVOID!!!!!! Save your money people!!!!!!!
Heroine has not made any impact on the box office!!! With the amount of promotion and the number of screens released, the film should have opened with better response. The numbers will obviously go down during the weekdays, thus the film can only be average or below average, nothing above it can happen, since teh budget of the film was 35 crore, the weekend will not even pass that. FAIL!!!!!
I am glad that I read the reviews!! Saw the film on pulocker and it was a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!! Kareena`s performance is ok, there are a lot of mixed reviews for her performance!!!!!
Horrible film, trust the review, and there are all mostly negative reviews!! It just feels like a bunch of intesne scenes edited together, there is no story or sense of direction!!!!!!!
Just saw Hetoine today. Kareena was marvelous.
Great performance.
Definitely National Award Worthy.
This is not good! Heroine's first and 2nd day collections are almost same as Barfi's 2nd weekend collections, and that after Heroine releasing in far far more theaters than Barfi...plus Heroine is not showing any growth. Very disappointing!!!! I wonder what Kareena is thinking sitting in London, lets hope she is not throwing tantrums like Mahi Arora!
Best movie of kareena's career...go 4 it....
Just saw it last night....awesome movie....don't go by reviews....Kareena was so good....
Go 4 it guys...lovely movie...
Must go....kareena did it again....
Sat, 2012-09-22 15:41 — Pinkvilla_boy
Kareena performed & acted well in this movie SO why can t some people get over this FACT
so SAD to see some delusional fans HATRED comments of bringing other celebrities into this post :S
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100% agree with u...
I don't know if Madhur even wrote the script - he seems to have just look around and picked up the story. It does not seem to be from different actresses either. The theatre was shouting Yuvraj and Preity when Angad-Mahi affair was going on. Also when they showed Cruise. 2 affairs before Aryan reminds us of Lars and Marc. She got dumped on the road by Aryan -reminded of her reports of Ness dumping her on the road in Chandigarh. Even art films reminded Last Lear and Videsh. Burkha disguise, cleaning drive for publicity and IPL were the obvious ones.
Finally watched Heroine. My rating:2/5
Here goes:
1. Mahi Arora/Kareena Kapoor: this is undoubtedly Kareena's best role. She plays Mahi Arora so convincingly. A girl with a bi-polar disorder who never has anything in control. Her acting in this movie is pulling the hats off people and rightly so ! She looks the part and she plays the part so damn well and it just helps that she is soooo beautiful throughout, even in her rough times!
2. The script
This is Madhur Bhandarkar's WORST script ever!! Actually there is No script in this film. The film is not even about Bollywood. It's about a girl with a bi-polar disorder and that's about it. No punches in the dialogues, horrible supporting cast, and a very hackneyed direction. The movie is just not going anywhere!!!! What is Madhur trying to show exactly?? We all know bollywood's cliches so that part wasn't very well done but showing every single person smoking their lungs out seemed a little farfetched.
The movie had no direction in terms of where it was going. Mahi's position as a superstar in the beggining was not established well. You couldn't exactly tell what tier of stardom she belonged to. Was she a Kareena Kapoor or an Ameesha Patel or a preity zinta?? One could not tell.
Declining superstar: if Mahi always suffered from this disorder, how did she ever make it to the top to begin with? Very strange.
What blew the film was the ending. It reinforced the fact that running from your problems is the only solution. I'd definitely take Madhur's previous works such as Chandni Bar and Fashion over this hotchpotch script which has no head or tail to it.
Verdict: watch it for Kareena Kapoor who wows you in every single frame and one can't get their eyes off her.
I liked it. I think I had a good time watching kareena and her superb performance. Honestly, she has worked very hard and she looks fab. I think the movie never bored me even once. I got the entertainment I was expecting out of this movie. Drama!