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Title: |
Film Star |
| Director: |
Tanuja Chandra |
| Genre: |
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| Year: |
2004 |
| Language: |
Hindi |
| Color: |
Color |
| Release: |
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| Producer: |
Sahara India & Vishesh Films |
| Music: |
Jatin-Lalit |
| Starring |
| Mahima Chaudhary
Priyanshu Chatterjee
Vasundhara Das
Aryan Vaid
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| Plot |
| Hira Pandit (Mahima
Chaudhury) is an actress who is nothing if not
full of herself. Arrogant and thriving on only one
thing - people adoring her unabashedly, and
without stopping, just loving her! So naturally
when this adoration stars to wane, she can't take
it. Her vanity can't bear the fact that her
popularity is slipping, that she's not getting
nominated for awards, that her films simply aren't
working like they used to. And
at this fragile juncture of her life she runs into
Digambar (Priyanshu Chatterjee), an old friend,
whom she used to lovingly call Digs. Somewhere
along the way, their lives had traveled down
different paths. He's a drunkard, an ex-lawyer now
very much out of work, who makes a living, singing
in a cheap bar. He's counted the days and months
and year since they last met but on this night
when they accidentally meet he makes the one
mistake that he shouldn't have. He tells her that
she needs to reinvent herself, do new work, and be
less predictable on screen. This sends her into a
tizzy, but it also sends her towards events that
change her life forever. Hira
finds herself the bona-fide drama, a real-life
one, one that will surely take her back to the
top! It's the story of a loving, traditional wife,
the murder of her husband, a father-in-law who
heads a non-political but powerful organization
and the secrets that lie behind the closed doors
of his “bhavan”. A volatile world, which she
enters purely to exploit for her own ends - is
also the one that soon takes over her whole life.
She begins to get attached to the women whose
juicy story she had wanted just for film. She
begins to see the strength in her lawyer friend
whom she had merely considered a failure till now.
As celluloid clashes with reality, it changes her
forever.
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