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Producer/s:
Bobby Pushkarna
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Cast: Konkana Sensharma,
Boman Irani, Bikram Saluja, Tara Sharma, Shandhya
Mridul, Atul Kulkarni
Music: Shamir Tandon
Lyrics: Ajay Jhingran, Sandeep
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 'Page
3' is an unsuccessful attempt to look into the lives
of the rich and famous. It takes potshots at the so-called
upper section of society comprising of the city's who's
who! Gay fashion designers, wannabe models and actors,
social workers, socialites, and social climbers.
Ultimately the film
focuses on the corruption present in the media- how
editorial is determined by the advertising capacities
of people and how scoops are dropped for reasons personal
or monetary. The director may have thought it to be
a brilliant subject but we wonder who would want to
watch a film of this nature especially when it showcases
all socialites as ugly middle aged people. Definitely
not the media who is conversant with the page 3 culture
and its people as well as with the workings of a newspaper.
Although 'Page 3' does
showcase the dual personalities of people, one must
add that the film is an exaggerated view of things.
All page 3 parties and people are not as bad as portrayed
in the film. And wouldn't a struggling actress know
what it involves when a top star wants to sleep with
her! Where does the bit about her trying to commit suicide
creep in? If hard-hitting means exposing the bit where
rich men indulge in sex abuse of children, then come
again! It hasn't quite registered in that one scene
towards the fag end of the film.
Madhvi (Konkona Sen
Sharma) comes straight into Mumbai from Bangalore to
start her career in journalism. She lands a job at the
Nation Today newspaper. Her beat is entertainment and
her job involves covering those highly-glamourized Page
3 parties.
She has a supportive
editor, Deepak Suri, (Boman Irani). Like most journalists
she shares a rented apartment. Her flat mate is a fiery
and ambitious air-hostess, Pearl (Sandhya Mridul).
One day Madhvi comes
across Gayatri (Tara Sharma), a struggling actress in
a local train while returning home after a party. Gayatri
moves into Madhvi's apartment and the three soon become
thick.
A few incidents cause
Madhvi to get sick of Page 3 reporting (we don't blame
her!). She realizes that such parties are a mere sham
and decides to take her colleague, senior crime reporter
Vinayak's (Atul Kulkarni), advice seriously and concentrate
on more pressing issues. But, in the end, she is back
to square one - she gets back to Page 3! So ultimately
she ends up looking like a very convenient rather than
a firm journalist.
The film does manage
to interest the viewer slightly in the second half but
it is not gripping at all. This is surely not a film
that one can rave about. It is best forgotten. Or at
best one could just laugh at it and at oneself for having
allowed the director to put you through all this torture
for nothing at all.
Konkona Sen Sharma is
okay. Nothing to write home about. Sandhya Mridul excels
and adds an element of real fun to an otherwise pretending
to be funny film. Tara Sharma is okay. Boman Irani is
outstanding yet again. Atul Kulkarni doesn't get much
scope but still makes an impact. Bikram Saluja is sincere.
Jai Kalra makes a fair debut. The rest are adequate
and there are yet others who are irritating.
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