Film: Fashion

Banner : UTV Motion Pictures & Bhandarkar Entertainment

Producer: Madhur Bhandarkar, Deven Khote, Ronnie Screwvala, Zarina Mehta

Director: Madhur Bhandarkar

Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Mughda Godse, Arbaaz Khan, Kitu Gidwani, Arjan Bajwa

Rating: 2/5

For director Madhur Bhandarkar it is almost as though he has caught onto the path of portraying a sense of realism in the most commercial manner possible. No doubt he has made some incredible films like Satta, Chandani Bar, Page 3 and Traffic Signal, but then fashion is what you’d call the most sober of the lot. Yes it’s about the fashion industry and yes all the deceit and glamour that goes into making the industry is also there, but the Bhandarkar ardor that is seen in all the other films seems totally missing.

With a giveaway title like fashion, you obviously don’t expect to see a kid flick. As clichéd as the title sounds, the film is basically everything about the fashion industry. The film to take the audience through this journey of the fashion world, hooks onto Meghna Mathur (Chopra) a small town girl who is out to make it big in the fashion world. Who soon dethrones Shonali (Ranaut); a supermodel and the muse of scores of designers. While Shonali is on the downward slope, Meghna is on her way up; but as the saying goes what goes up come down and hard. Arrogance turns to humility, true meaning of success is revealed and in the process you witness tons of models strut countless clothes in the film titled Fashion.

Honestly this is not a bad film; however it is a long film. The word long is used not to discuss the duration of the film, but to state that the film seems stretched to no end. A brilliant fare that could have ended much sooner and made a bang is stretched. Additionally the film at some point gets lost in the numerous catwalks that are displayed on screen...