Kareena Kapoor's 'HEROINE' - Exclusive Movie Review by Sree Prasad Nair

Thursday, September 20, 2012 

Heroine : Exclusive Movie Review 

Written & Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar

Produced by Ronnie Screwvala / Madhur Bhandarkar

Starring Kareena Kapoor , Arjun Rampal , Divya Dutta & Randeep Hooda 

Theater - Abu Dhabi National Cinemas, UAE

20/09/2012 - 9.30 pm

Occupancy - 100% (Sold out) & next show too soldout 

National Award Winning Director Madhur Bhandarkar is always famous for his realistic women-centric films. Be it Chandni Bar, Page 3, Fashion or his Award Winning Traffic Signal his films were always hard hitting and welcomed by both critics as well as audience. His new film Heroine is releasing tomorrow all over India. Heroine is in news from the the day its casts were announced. Bhandarkar approached Kareena to do the main lead role. But she refused to do sighting the role has many intimate scenes. Later the role was offered to Aishwarya Rai and she accepted it. But after few days of production began, Aishwarya left the film due to her pregnancy and it created a lot of controversy between Bhandarkar and Bachchan Family. Finally Bhandarkar re-approached Kareena Kapoor and convinced her to do the film. Also Heroine releasing on Kareena’s Birthday (September 21st)

Heroine is the story of Mahi Arora played by Kareena Kapoor, and her controversial relationships with Superstar Aryan Khanna played Arjun Rampal and Cricketer Angad Paul played by Randeep Hooda. Her main aim was to become the No.1 actress of her times. Will she succeeds in that? Was her True Love

ever going to be successful? Was Mahi going to lose everything she cared for OR was there any way of saving herself to emerge as her dream of a true Heroine?

First Lets go straight to the Positives of The Film

There were rumours that Heroine’s story is a mix of Fashion, Page 3 & Dirty Picture. Well the truth is that Heroine has no resemblance with DirtyPicture or Fashion or Page3! Heroine is 100% ORGINAL! The story written by the Bhandarkar himself and the screenplay by Anuraadha Tewari and Manoj Tyagi (both worked with Bhandarkar’s earlier films) are brilliant. A big applause should go to Bhandarkar for showcasing the real truth and the dirty politics happening in Bollywood through Heroine. Bhandarkar has never shamed from telling the dirty truth happening in film industry through his movies and Heroine is no exception.One of his finest works. Cinematographyby Mahesh Limayeis good. Music by Salim-Sulaiman is excellent with the chartbuster ‘Halkat Jawani’.

Kareena Kapoor is ROCKED as Mahi Kapoor. No two opinions on that. Reserve all Filmfare, Zee Cine, Stardust, IIFA Awards for 'Mahi Arora! Be it for her innocent or jealous character, her strong emotions or dare to bare act, or for using shockingly foul languages, above all for her excellent brave acting & Yes Kareena’s acting is an EPIC !!! While watching the film I tweeted ‘Last week it was chote bhai Ranbir's #Barfi , This week it's badi deedi #Kareena's #Heroine. Those who loved Kareena for her JabWeMet’s Geet are going to adore Mahi Arora of Heroine! Also she looks million bucks hot in both Title song & Halkat Jawani.

Arjun Rampal is good, though there is not much scope for him to show his versatility. Randeep Hooda is superb in a short but significant role. Talented actress Divya Dutta is excellent as always. Ditto are Ranvir Shorey and Shahana Goswami. Sanjay Suri & Mugdha Godse are effective in their limited roles. Remaining supporting cast is good.

But on the negative side, The film loses its pace in the second half. The song picturised on Randeep-Kareena was not needed. Few scenes/foul languages should have avoided. Compared to first half, second drags a bit and more towards the climax. Climax is too ordinary. But these negatives won’t harm Heroine if you look at the overall execution and Kareena’s power packed performance.

Overall, Heroine is another brave film coming fro-m Madhur Bhandarkar. Don’t get surprised if Heroine opens to a bumber response at the box office. A 8-9crore is on the cards on the opening day with a weekend around 32 crores. I’m sure that Heroine will be loved for its realistic story and will bag many awards this year. A sure shot super hit !!! 

Verdict : HAPPY HEROINE HIT BIRTHDAY TO KAREENA KAPOOR 

Rating – 3.5/5 

P.S - Aishwarya Rai’s MISS is Kareena Kapoor’s EPIC 

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Sunny Leone's Jism 2 - Exclusive Movie Review

Directed by     Pooja Bhatt
Produced by     Dino Morea, Pooja Bhatt
Written by     Mahesh Bhatt
Screenplay by     Mahesh Bhatt

Starring     Sunny Leone, Randeep Hooda, Arunoday Singh

Music by     Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Mithoon
Cinematography     Nigam Bomzan
Studio     Clockwork Films Private Limited, Fish Eye Network
Release date(s)       3 August 2012
Country     India
Language     Hindi


Sunny Leone's Jism 2 - Exclusive Guest Movie Review


 Abu Dhabi National Cinemas
02/08/12 -  9.30 Pm

Occupancy 30% ( Surprisingly more foreign ladies)

Murder or Gangster or even this year’s hit Jannat 2, most of their films are well appreciated by the critics as well as the audience. But… their new product, much hyped called JISM2, second installment in the Jism series directed by Pooja Bhatt (like the first part) Well the lesser I say, better it would be…

Coming to Jism2, Pooja Bhatt had everything going for her. It's a dream project, second installment of a successful film, excellent music , terrific promotions, story-screenplay written by Mahesh Bhatt, Randeep Hooda & Arunoday Singh (both are talented actors) last but not least, it’s the debut movie of Universal Pornstar Sunny Leone who has fans all over the world for what she does, Yep U guys got it…! She was on news from the day she entered the BiggBoss House, Thanks to Mahesh Bhatt’s offer during the show. Even Sunny Leone must have thought that’s its time for her to say Good Bye to Porn Films, but feeling sorry for her coz Pooja Bhatt slips and trips, falling flat on her face.

Jism 2 is the story of a porn star Iznaa played by pornstar Sunny Leone is hired by a dashing intelligence officer Ayaan played by Arunoday Singh to become a 'Honey-trap' for a dreaded assassin Kabir played by Randeep Hooda. In doing so, she not only has to confront her bitter-sweet past, but is also forced to make an impossible choice - one that will put her own life in double jeopardy.

The problem with Jism2 is endless. No script, unwanted heavy philosophical dialogues, audition kinda acting by the lead actors except Randeep, high dosage of kissing scenes, forced sex scenes & ofcourse Pooja Bhatt’s horrible direction.

Music by Arko Pravo Mukherjee / Mithoon is good with two excellent songs Maula and Abhi Abhi. But song placements are really bad. Cinematography by Nigam Bomzan is topnotch, captured the exotic locations of Srilanka beautifully.

Randeep Hooda is superb as Kabir. Infact his acting is the only good thing about this film and continues his dream run with awesome performance. Arunoday Singh is totally wasted as Ayaan. Sad that a good actor who have proved his good acting (in films like Yeh Saali Zindagi & Mirch) gone nowhere here. Actor played as Arunoday’s father is OK!

Now to the much awaited performance of Sunny Leone, I feel really sorry for her to made her debut with Jism2! She looks cute & confident (with or without clothes) Her voice is similar to Katrina kaif. Good screen presence and did the lovemaking scenes where no one can’t even match off with her. But her expressions are BAD, dialogue deliveries are More BAD & her acting is DAMN BAD !!! She was expected to shock the audience like what Mallika Sherawat did in Murder, sadly she is shockingly boring ! We can’t blame her as the real culprit is lacklusture script done by Mahesh Bhat coupled with pathetic mis-direction by his daughter Pooja Bhatt.

On the whole Jism2 is a bad product from the Bhatt Camp which is turned out to be a sad introduction for Sunny Leone in Bollywood. At the B.O the film may survive (Chances are very less) if the weekend collects 15cr+, but Monday onwards film gonna crash big time. Niether Sunny Leone can’t save this bad film nor her assets.

P.S – Mahesh Bhatt can go along with Madura Honey as participants for this year’s BiggBoss season, He DESERVES it !!!



Rating – 1.5/5
 (1 for Randeep’s acting & .5 feeling sorry for Sunny leone)


Review by Sree Prasad Nair
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