Fashion

Madhur Bhandarkar , the name itself is associated with films that don’t tread the normal path , no big stars , no flashy cinematography just pure content . Madhur has always narrated his movie in an extremely simple fashion , no glamour or unnecessary item songs just the story backed by convincing performances . so it is indeed commendable that inspite of folloing this path he still has managed to give gems like Chandni Bar , Satta , Page 3 . I have always enjoyed his movies esp the 3 I have mentioned before . but in recent times his last 2 movies Corporate & traffic Signal have been disappointing . one felt the director in him has started taking the safe route by attempting to catch the same kind of  grim movies that have given him success before . is this signaling the end of Madhur Bahndarkar

      Well I was definitely wrong as fashion marks the come back of the filmmaker ,  as he has hit the bulls eye withi this . the story of the fashion industry is shown from the eyes of a wanna be model Meghna essayed by chopra & her journey from becoming a struggling model to supermodel & finally her fall from the grace to finally rise again like a phoenix . it is this journey & the people she meets in this journey that form the story . there is also the sub story of a supermodel Shonali essayed by Ranaut who self destructs herself  as also the track of a B grade model given to life by the confident debutante Mughdha Godse    & a gay designer , the restraint Sameer Soni & the rich businessman essayed by the surprise of the movie Arbaaz Khan .there are also some more sub plots which the script writer includes nicely in the screenplay . but inspite of  the subplots what takes the movie away the boredom is the various surprise factor engulfed in the movie . right from the wardrobe malfunction  , priyankas realization scene to kangana s death scene & even some of the fashion shows have been visualized  put together by the crafty Madhur .

         Having said this fashion does have some problems as the editing could have ben tighter & slicker atleast 15 minutes could have been cut . secondly , the turn around of Priyanka s character into a grey one has not  been properly explained , the climax had great potential to be exploited more , but Madhur has failed to do so .

   Inspite of these glitches this is definitely one of his best works . it shows in the way Madhur has extracted performances from just about everyone esp his leading ladies .Godse as mentioned earlier is confident , Chopra gives her best performance up till date extremely crafty from changing weight to expressions in order to suit the change in mood of her character . but the showstopper of the movie is Kangana Ranaut  who looks like a diva in each & every ramp scene & performs superbly well   as the skeleton which priyanka s character would become later . Kitu Gidwani is a pleasure to watch after a long time . Arjan Bajwa is restraint as the non compromising model . the music is damn good & is used well in the movie . Cinematography changes mood according to thegraph of the movie . the costumes are superb  .

    In all madhur comes up with one of his finest works & in case u missed it madhur comes in the movie as himself just like Subash Ghai to remind us it is his creation .CERTAINLY SHOWSTOPPING .