Heroine (2012-movie): Bollywood Hindi Film

Heroine Movie Details :

Heroine Movie is an 2012 Indian Bollywood drama film directer, writter, and co-producer is Madhur Bhandarkar. Revolving around the life of a once-successful film actress whose career is on the decline, the film features Kareena Kapoor as the protagonist along with actors Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda.

The film star cast are Shahana Goswami, Rakesh Bapat, Divya Dutta, Helen, Shillpi Sharma, Mugdha Godse and Lillete Dubey in supporting roles. Heroine released on 21 September 2012 across 2000 screens, coinciding with Kapoor’s 32nd birthday. Kareena Kapoor’s performance was highly acclaimed and is considered to be one of her best. Kapoor received a Best Actress nomination at the 58th Filmfare Awards for her performance in the film.

• Directer : Madhur Bhandarkar
• Producer : Ronnie Screwvala,Madhur Bhandarkar,Siddharth Roy Kapur
• Screenplay : Anuraadha Tewari,Manoj Tyagi
• Story : Madhur Bhandarkar
• Starring : Kareena Kapoor Khan,Arjun Rampal,Randeep Hooda,Shahana Goswami
• Music : Salim-Sulaiman
• Cinematography : Mahesh Limaye
• Editer : Deven Murudeshwar
• Casting : Ashish Bhelkar,Nalini Rathnam
• Makeup Department : Pompy Hans,Sagar Holkar,Ritesh Naik
• Production Management : Preejith Balan,Farooq Malgundkar,Shah Naimish,Amish Thakore
• Assistant Director : Deepak Bhave,Ashish Bhelkar,Shruti Naik,Jaimin Patel,Durgesh Raje
• Art Department : Rita Ghosh,Gayatri Shinde
• Special Effects : SatyandraTyag
• Visual Effects : Debasish Borah,Mohamed Ghouse,Manoj Gohil,P. Mohan,Sameer Pandit
• Production company : Bhandarkar Entertainment
• Distributer : UTV Motion Pictures
• Genres : Drama
• Release date : 21 September 2012
• Running time : 150 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

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Star Cast of The Film :

• Kareena Kapoor as a Mahi Arora
• Arjun Rampal as a Aryan Khanna
• Randeep Hooda as a Angad Paul
• Shahana Goswami as a Promita
• Pooja Chopra as a Shaheen Khan
• Divya Dutta as a Pallavi Narayan
• Rashmi Nigam as a Gauri
• Pallavi Sharda as a Gayatri
• Ranvir Shorey as a Tapanda (Dada)
• Lillete Dubey as a Mahi’s Mom
• Mugdha Godse as a Rhea Mehra
• Sanjay Suri as a Abbas Khan
• Raqesh Bapat
• Sakshi Benipuri as a Prostitute
• Harsh Chhaya as a Alex
• Sachin Danai as a Satya
• G.K. Desai
• Kanika Dhillon
• Areesz Ganddi as a Nikhil Anand (Director)
• Sanjay Gurbaxani as a Ram Mirchandani ( Producer)
• Pompy Hans as a Self
• Helen as a Shagufta Rizvi
• Dilnaz Irani as a Tamana
• Rahul Jaiswal as a Self (credit only)
• Kaizaad Kotwal as a Businessman
• Ritesh Naik as a Self
• Gaurav Nanda as a Andy
• Jignesh Panchal as a An Indian in Europe
• Durgesh Raje as a Mahi’s Fan
• Dabboo Ratnani as a Photographer
• Sujata Sehgal as a Journalist
• Shilpi Sharma as a Isha Sharma
• Meenakshi Thapa

Story of The Film :

After his incredible run of women-centric films from Chandni Bar, Page 3, Satta and Corporate to the blockbuster Fashion, Madhur Bhandarkar now turns his lens inwards and presents his most ambitious work yet – Heroine. The film is based on the life and times of a superstar heroine from the dream factory we call ‘Bollywood’. The film is a daring, shocking, glamorous, scandalous behind the scenes account of the reality behind the world of glitz and glamour that our film stars inhabit. For a country obsessed with films and film stars, Heroine will take audiences on a voyeuristic journey to see what really goes on behind the closed doors of make up rooms and vanity vans. It will give them a chance to go beyond the gorgeous smiles and politically correct quotes, to see what really happens in the lives of India’s sweethearts. The bitching and the politics, the secrets and the lies, the incredible highs of fame and the lonely depths of failure.

Production :
Development :

Following the completion of his film, Jail (2009), Bhandarkar began toying with the idea of making a project on the Hindi film industry. Along with writer Niranjan Iyengar, the director began developing the story about the life of an actress and later approached UTV Motion Pictures with whom he had worked on several occasions. Bhandarkar, who was keen on using the title Heroine for his film, donated 100,000 to Guddu Dhanoa’s charity.He later explained that he had been subconsciously preparing for the movie ever since he joined the industry.

Pre-production work on the film was expected to commence during the summer of 2010 but was put on hold due to Kapoor being busy with other commitments.During this period, Bhandarkar announced that he would be making another project while putting Heroine on hold.Though speculated to be based on the lives of yesteryear divas like Madhubala and Marilyn Monroe, Bhandarkar denied the reports saying that the movie is a “contemporary film which reveals the underbelly of the movie industry and its well-kept secrets”. In an attempt to prepare his protagonist for the film, the director prepared a three-hour documentary on Hollywood actresses Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner and Vivien Leigh. Designer Manish Malhotra was signed on to design the costumes.Choreography of the movie was done by Remo D’Souza, Ganesh Acharya and Jasmin Oza.

Film Shooting :

Production for the film was marred by the kidnapping and brutal murder of Meenakshi Thapar by a co-star, Amit Jaiswal, who like Thapar, only had a minor role in the film. Thapar was strangled in her hotel room in Gorakhpur and her body dumped into a water tank and severed head thrown out of the window of a moving bus.

Heroine Movie Songs / Music :

It was announced that music director are duo Salim–Sulaiman, who had earlier worked with Madhur Bhandarkar in Fashion (2008), will be composing the songs for Heroine.

During the shooting of the film, Bhandarkar revealed that there would be 2 big item numbers in the film, both to be picturized on the leading lady. One of them “Halkat Jawani”, sung by Sunidhi Chauhan wasr released as a single track release on 17 August 2012. Musicperk.com rated the album 7/10 quoting “Although songs like ‘Halkat Jawani’, ‘Khwahishein’ and ‘Tujhpe Fida’ sound nice and enthusiastic as independent tracks, others probably would need to rely on the picturization of the song for the required effect to be created”.

• “Halkat Jawani” – Sunidhi Chauhan
• “Tujhpe Fida” – Benny Dayal, Shradha Pandit
• “Khwahishein” – Shreya Ghoshal
• “Saiyaan” – Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
• “Main Heroine Hoon” – Aditi Singh Sharma

“Main Heroine Hoon” Full Video Song :

• Singer : Aditi Singh Sharma
• Lyrics : Sanjay Chhel
• Music : Salim – Sulaiman

“Halkat Jawani” Full Video Song :

• Singer – Sunidhi Chauhan
• Lyrics – Niranjan Iyengar
• Music – Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant

Heroine Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 5.1 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 4032.

I have absolutely no context for this movie and it’s actors and sure it’s not the most original plot but I found myself intrigued enough by the seedy side of fame to watch it to the end. I would actually recommend it for a slow night.

Honestly, the main reason I’m giving it an 8 is to counter the absurdly low ratings. At the very least it deserves a 7.

Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 3.5 star out of 5 Star.

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