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Starring: Priyanka Chopra, Kagana Ranaut, Mughda
Godse, Arjan Bawja, Arbaaz Khan, Sameer Soni, Kitu
Gidwani
Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar
Fashion
is a story of the rise and fall of an aspiring
supermodel Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra). Priyanka has
come out with a strong performance finding her own
standing in an industry known for ruthlessness and
fickleness.
A smart aspiring model from Chandigarh, Meghna comes to
Mumbai to pursue her dream of becoming a supermodel,
against her dad's wishes. She leaves her house with
dreams to strike it big in the modeling world. However
she experiences some major difficulties in her initial
days in Mumbai, auditioning several times and getting
rejected. Luckily, she gets a good helping hand from an
old acquaintance, Rohit (Ashwin Mushran) an aspiring gay
designer who assists big shot designer Vinay Khosla
(Harsh Chhaya).
Dejected though, Shonali cautions Meghna that one day
even she would just lose herself in all that glamour,
like she did.
Now Meghna is an overnight success and her face is
splashed everywhere. She is the new showstopper at the
biggest fashion shows in town and the cover model in top
fashion magazine covers, print ads and commercials.
As warned by Shonali, this overnight success spoils
Meghna. It begins with an abrupt end to the budding love
relationship between her and Manav.
Shonali’s career, on other hand, comes to an end and she
gets into drugs and lands up at a rehab centre. Meghna
riding high with her success and recklessness gets
pregnant with Abhijit's child and has to undergo an
abortion due to the contract clause earlier added by
Abhijit himself.
Dejected, Meghna resorts to alcohol to relieve herself.
She even gets into a verbal fight with the agency’s
manager and then recklessly living her life.
CAST:
Meghna Mathur - Priyanka Chopra
Shonali Gujral - Kangana Ranaut
Janet Sequeira - Mugdha Godse
Abhijeet Sarin - Arbaaz Khan
Manav Bhasin - Arjan Bajwa
Rahul Aurora - Sameer Soni
Meghna’s father - Raj Babbar
Meghna’s mother - Kiran Juneja
Anisha Roy - Kitu Gidwani
Avantika Sarin - Suchitra Pillai-Malik
Vinay Khosla - Harsh Chhaya
Rohit Khanna - Ashwin Mushran
Monsin Merchant - Pradeep Kharab
Leena Mehta - Rinku Patel
Shomu - Chitrashi Rawat
Models - Caroline Martins Alcamim, Esha Balwe, Jaqueline
Borges, Svetalana Casper
Rohit Roy
Manoj Joshi
Kamal Adib
Usha Bachani
Riya Bajaj
Sheena Bajaj
Manini De
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She keeps coming across another struggling male model, Maanav (Arjan Bajwa) who even
helps her to share his accommodation.
Rohit takes Meghna to a top designer’s fashion show where
she comes across the reigning supermodel Shonali Gujral (Kangana
Ranaut). Meghna, while promoting her pics, is mocked by
the show choreographer and is advised to visit a top model
photographer Kartik (Rohit Roy) to do a professional
portfolio of hers.
Meghna is mentored by another smalltime model Janet (Mugdha
Godse). Finally, Kartik agrees to shoot her for a high fee
for which she attends functions and even shoots for a
lingerie shoot. While struggling and modeling for various
designers as a side-by, she gets noticed by a top official
Anisha Roy (Kitu Gidwani) of a major modeling agency
Panache who introduces Meghna to her boss Abhijit Sarin (Arbaaz
Khan) who is impressed by her ambitious nature and her
achiever attitude.
The reigning Panache’s face is
Shonali Gujral who with her drug abuse has become a
problem for her and for the talent agency. Abhijit Sarin
terminates Shonali’s contract and gives Meghna a break as
Panache's new face.
She then attends a rave party
and from then onwards, she leads a reckless lifestyle. Her
contracts get cancelled overnight, her career on a steep
downhill, and she lands up at the bottom of her self
esteem.
Meghna goes back to Chandigarh having lost her
self-confidence. Living a dull life, this time it is her
dad who encourages her to go back to Mumbai. She befriends
her old friends and fights back to reach the top again in
the modeling world.
Priyanka Chopra is excellent in this role of substance and
she does a good job of carrying the film. The sexy Mughda
Godse makes a confident debut and she does act well too.
Kangana Ranaut with her dazzling looks appears hot in the
catwalks, but is a little too loud when in distress. Samir
Soni does a fine job while Arbaaz Khan, Kitu Gidwani and
Arjan Bajwa make their presence felt.
Aren’t there many female models who have reached the top
without resorting to drugs or drinks and without getting
used by the promoters? Bhandarkar uses his usual style of
story telling like he did in Chandni Bar which clicked
that time about the life of bar girls but the modeling
industry has lot of educated and even professional models
who are level headed in the industry.
- Shami M.
Irfan
CREDITS & CREW:
Producer - Madhur Bhandarkar
Co-Producers - Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur,
Deven Khote, Zarina Mehta
Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar
Story and Screenplay - Madhur Bhandarkar, Ajay Monga,
Anuradha Tiwari
Associate Producers - Ram Mirchandani, Sanchayan
Bhattacharya
Dialogues - Niranjan Iyengar
Original Music - Salim Merchant - Suleman Merchant
Cinematography - Mahesh Limaye
Film Editing - Devendra Murdeshwar
Production Design - Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Costume Designs - Narendra Kumar Ahmed, Rita Dhody |
