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A female superstar struggles through the trials and tribulations of being a Bollywood actress.A female superstar struggles through the trials and tribulations of being a Bollywood actress.A female superstar struggles through the trials and tribulations of being a Bollywood actress.
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- 8 nominations
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- TriviaKareena Kapoor's wardrobe for the film was one of the most expensive Bollywood had seen. It included over 130 different dresses by top fashion designers from all over the world.
- GoofsWhen Kareena shoots the sex scene the camera is handheld and shaky but when she sees it with Divya Dutta on laptop it looks like as if it's shot with camera held properly
- Quotes
Mahi Arora: You media people should write film scripts. What stories you make to bring out your personal emnity. "Heroine took a car; a businessman gifted her", "She bought a diamond; she got engaged", "She went to the hospital; she got an abortion", "She went to Elle; she underwent plastic surgery" and if she goes to Dubai, a rate card gets made of hers. You're the best in making stories.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 14th IIFA Awards (2013)
- SoundtracksSaaiyaan
Performed by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya
Music by Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant
Produced by UTV Motion Pictures, Bhandarkar Entertainment
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Okay, this film is really bad. Madhur Bhandarkar turns out to be a one-trick pony as each one of his films suffers from extremely poor execution. Chandni Bar was quite good, Page 3 definitely less so, Fashion was really average, and Heroine goes a few more steps down as a highly unconvincing film, which is very formulaic, lacking in focus, and almost comic in how stereotypical it is. In many ways it's just a takeoff on Fashion, offering a simplistic story of a big star who makes her way in the big cruel world of fashion, or film. I'm gonna put aside the biased, superficial portrayal of the film industry, which could be forgivable if the execution was right. But no, the film is just really poor and often looks like an amateurish college skit - the dialogue is awful, the dubbing and delivery is very, very unrealistic, the sound is annoying, and the entire product is melodramatic and with zero emotional impact. At times it looks like a cheap soap opera. The same is true for Kareena Kapoor, the leading lady, who is really let down by the poor script. This is one of her worst roles in my opinion, and the writing doesn't even allow her to develop an iota of character. It's all about exteriors, she has to look right, she has to exude confidence, but true depth that could have been brought out by a better actress, is absent in this film. Heroine is a stereotypical formula film which does harm to the Hindi film industry both because how it portrays it and because how bad it is in and of itself.
- Peter_Young
- Mar 3, 2021
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $598,668
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $389,901
- Sep 23, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $8,036,853
- Runtime2 hours 29 minutes
- Color
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