Dirty Picture is a filthy, stinking and great entertainer
Don't we all love our flawed entertainers, in most cases the more depraved and shocking an actors life is, the more curiosity we have for that star. In most cases a star maybe doing it for attention or sensation but many times, their lives are emotionally bankrupt which make them fall in to an abyss. Ektaa Kapoor chooses Silk Smitha, the titillating sensation of the 80's, as her subject for Dirty Picture. The film chronicles her life, detailing her long struggles, her sexual escapades with men, her fame, her bouts with alcohol, her botched attempt in film production which made her penniless, and finally the emergence of the heroine as the vamp and which relegated the likes of Silk to the background. She and Milan Luthria the director, pack all this in slighly over 2.30 hours sheer entertainment.
Reshma ( Vidya Balan) aspires to be a actress but does not get any breaks, and she is told that she does not have the spice or spunk to light up the screen. However she manages to land a...
Vidya on Kaleidoscope
In case you were wondering, The Dirty Picture is not a "dirty movie" by any means.
It is in fact a complete Bollywood entertainer, wanting to be attractive to as many people as possible. No restrictive ratings. For young adult boys it is probably a sex teaser, and simply a broad based entertainer for older Bollywood viewers who have memories of films from other times.
The more Bollywood films I see, the more I think that Indians simply want to be entertained when they go to the movies, and they do this through an unending repetition of familiar scenes in new guises- the key is the new faces of old memories. Mixing..mixing..mixing.
Vidya Balan is wonderful in this picture, though nothing like the real Silk. It is Naseeruddin Shah, playing a character not unlike himself, who is the gateway into the past, the filmmaker's frame for a fast paced kaleidoscopic experience of faces and scenes that makes up the entire movie.
Scenes and faces- yes...
A DREAM ROLE PLAYED OUT EXCELLENTLY BY VIDYA BALAN.
You know how actors are always humming about getting a dream role and playing it to the best of their ability? Usually such roles go by somewhat under-celebrated by the audiences. The artist who plays these roles love their personal performances but seldom does a moment come for an actor where the rejoice of the crowd is matched equivocally with their own candor. Vidya Balan completely owned her role in THE DIRTY PICTURE. The film is a treat for film goers and the direction is stoic and lacks any apology or even malice. This will be a favorite for many years to come for several dialogues. I think Vidya Balan's performance dictates the flow of the film and she has truly outdone any expectation anyone had from her. I thoroughly enjoyed the film and for people who thought it was vulgar or silly, they surely weren't expecting a Priyadarshanisque flair now, were they?! I'm going to watch Kahaani at the theater too, it was a recently released film and I hear it's yet another rollicker by...
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