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JapaneseDrama (over on Tumblr) was raving about this drama a few months ago so I decided to ditch my piles of homework and check it out. interesting characters, good-looking casts, and a typical yet sweet execution? Well, Heroine Disqualified might just be for you!

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.Rewatch Value 5.5 Do you like cute dramas with. The music is a complete let down and even the item song Halkat Jaawani fails to give the required `rise’ to proceedings. Mahi’s attempt to play a prostitute and say scandalous lines are clearly attempted to woo the front-benchers but the gig lacks conviction. When the maker attempts to show mainstream cinema’s condescending attitude towards art-house films, precious screen time is lost.

Heroine ne gaadi le li-toh businessman ne gift kardi diamond khareeda, toh engagement ho gayi hospital gayi check up ke liye, toh abortion ho gaya, LA gayi toh plastic surgery karva liya, aur Dubai gayi toh, uska rate card ban jata hai.Īnd Heroine would have been crisper had it not digressed to cover every Bollywood insider account. Sample this: aap media waalon ko toh script likhna chahiye. The film is made enjoyable by some pithy dialogue credited to Niranjan Iyengar. Cloning stereotypes of what the middle-class call a liberated Mahi is also shown smoking, drinking and popping pills so frequently she seems more like a social hazard than a free-thinking girl.

In a bid to pack in every piece of studio gossip ever heard Heroine makes Mahi swing from a relationship with a married actor to another with a successful cricketer (Randeep Hooda). Very clearly the written material at hand draws from unflattering accounts of various real and reel Hindi film heroines of the 80s (unfair to name them because a couple of them are not even around to defend themselves) who were in messy situations with their married co-stars. To add to her woes, she’s drawn like a moth to a flame to her married co-star Aryan Khanna(Arjun Rampal) a cad. But quickly enough she is also threatened by the arrival of the younger actresses and awards that go missing. So on the one hand, Mahi is cutting ribbons, and shooting for a dozen endorsements. If you are wondering why Sunshine Girl Mahi is on a constant emotional roller-coaster the narrative tells you that she has had a messed up childhood and hence she has developed this masochistic streak. Unfortunately she is also fashionably diagnosed with the bipolar syndrome and is happy to destroy herself in her various relationships. The protagonist is Mahi Arora (Kareena Kapoor), a superstar, who has the world at her feet for a bit in the beginning of this film.