Fashion: Models can’t think saala?
It is formula fed era for movies, where you know very well what you are going to be served with. So, to crib over the repetitive elements of the film maker is a sheer wastage.
Fashion (2008)
The stoned to death faces of the models and ostrich like thin long anorexic bodies is the cinematic introduction to Fashion. A story of a small town girl with pinned up dreams of becoming a supermodel. Her apprehensions, her inhibitions, her grind, her alter ego, her endeavors, her success, her high headiness, her spat, her guilt…It is a Cinderella story of a protagonist in the murky world of Fashion. A world of compromises vs. conveniences. Be it for The first break, To be a show stopper, To a willful marriage of an ambitious model with a gay designer or To be a trophy wife with contained life. !
Bhandarkar laughs off at prominent personalities by stripping their private lives and washing away his hands with the DISCLAIMER. The film Claims Madhur Bhandarkar as much as he claims the film. No doubt it comes across as a well researched film with superb casting, thrilling performances and not so stifled screenplay! All alright but everything seems to be perfect and predictable stirred by the same old success formula devised by Bhandarkar.
It is formula fed era for movies, where you know very well what you are going to be served with. So, to crib over the repetitive elements of the film maker is a sheer wastage. We know what we are going to watch when we go for an Akshay- Katrina movie, We know that our eye sights will be plundered will gleams while we head for a Bhansali movie…and very Yes! We know how overcooked emotions tastes when we are purchasing tickets for a karan Johar movie. So pretty obvious that people who have seen Bhandarkar’s earlier flicks would not have expected a moon fly when heading for his film Fashion .Realist filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar as he calls himself in the movie fashion has yet again given an brutally honest attempt to flash the ooooh so perfect fashion world…!
In the race of being real and mocking the who’s who, Bhandarkar has intentionally sketched a lot of stereotypes and exaggerations. Other than that I have to be humbly accept that his films are surely very enlightening and must to mention, entertaining, but somewhere down the lane he seems so much stuck and paddled by his
“Showing the deglamourized glamour and glamorizing the not so glamorous” formula. Hopefully, Bhandarkar is not a Ram Gopal Verma in making who himself is the victim of his own genius.
Models’ can’t think…but surely Bhandarkar’s Fashion makes you rethink!
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hey… I like the review… yet to see the film…
I can digest almost everything about mainstream cinema or try to, but few facts which pisses me off is when filmmakers, actors, producer who talk about ‘ realism’ and critics reflect about ‘realistic’ polt and’ non-realistic’ crap.. One day, I think, people should question on things they keep blabbering about realism again and again. by asking them the most banal question:” What the fuck is realism”.Another the idea is of ‘ researching’ a new fad in Bollywood . They want us to believe that the scripts are so researched that it could pass of as PHD thesis.
awesome review mallika..i am also very keen on watching this movie..but was wondering if its going to be the repeat of page 3 with different faces..i feel his films lack subtlety and are rather loud
if 1 hour short and some deft editing of storyline it could have been better. think he has improved over coporate. nice performances though i thought. mugdha godse and priyanka in particular. typical mahur style of storytelling though