Superficial posturing of so called calendar girls…
Friday, September 25, 2015
Verdict: 5 /10
Again
Madhur Bhandarkar comes-up with his kind of cinema, which has women centric
substance in core, fighting with odds. This old wine is in a new bottle with
same emotional outburst, suffering and exploitations that must be a choice of
one but underneath glittering is just opposite which shows women, whose world
of tragedy is created by them only, means they only are responsible for all their
distresses. Now I must say his narratives become so repetitive that one can’t
sit for 2 hours watching the same visuals which Mr. Bhandarkar has already
pointed out in his earlier flicks, I mean why he become so stubborn on
presenting almost similar stuff to the people who eagerly awaits for his film
and they come out from theatre with altogether different of kind of tragedy
which they really don’t deserve to be in. But Mr. Madhur walks ahead, in the
middle of this film he announces his upcoming movie called “Airhostess”.
This
tale of five girls whose ambition pushed hard to design the beeline road to
success unaware of the fact that this glamour takes more than what it gives.
This overnight success comes with so many offers, so many flashy things and
some strange friends who are basically an exploiters but this is how this
industry works. Six different backgrounds are posing for same aspirations but
when practical world erects in front, their path of glory starts taking shapes
in altogether new dimension, some girls are walking with the events, some
retreats back and waiting for the right opportunity and some falls under
circumstances.
Girls
did good job in the name of acting, what is remarkable of Mr. Madhur is that he
gives similar weightage to all stories and successfully brings-out their
performances. Even I liked some of the music number though it’s definitely not
closer to Fashion or even Page3.
Calendar
girls is a concoction of Love, ambition & deceive but the missing element
is the emotional part which has been told so many times by the same director
that it becomes more than boring and certainly not at all thoughtful in any
tone.
