The Madhur Bhandarkar formula is to identify a high-profile industry and then pick naggingly at its stereotypical flaws, sitting on top of Mount Judgemental and yelling out a sermon you've heard before.
This particular film, which talks of fashion 'dangers' like sex and drugs and a complete loss of morals, needs to be singled out -- more than anything else -- for its alarmingly racist look at the fall of a woman. Priyanka Chopra, in one of the most embarrassing roles of her career -- albeit one that gets her ill-deserved applause -- plays a model falling from grace, a fall mapped out by the way she has pre-marital sex, takes to alcohol and harder drugs. And then to show just how bad she's gotten, she sleeps with a black man. Oh, the horror.
Ah, what can you say about a filmmaker who casts himself as 'Madhur Bhandarkar, reality filmmaker' in his own movie, a fact women gossip excitedly about? Madhurji, there's a serious problem when you try a cheeky in-joke, and it turns out to be on you.
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