The director lays out his trump card: 'The former number one heroine was to do it, but now it's you.'

On the mantelpiece she spots a gap, a gap just large enough for a National Award. Matlab Kangana plus Priyanka, madam.'Īt this point Kapoor, weary (as one gets) of all those hundred-crore moneyspinners that have featured her merely as arm-candy, sighs, and looks over above the fireplace in front of that Asian Paints emulsified wall. We'll make you do everything, from playing insecure to bipolar to furious to arty. So we can show off not just how good an actress you are but also how tiptop your body is. 'Yes, same only, just with more skin show. 'You mean Streep?' Kareena perhaps interjects. (I naturally assume a script wasn't involved.) 'Kareena ji,' I speculate the director would have said, 'this film will make you Meryl Strip.'

It isn't hard to picture just how Madhur Bhandarkar pitched this film to Kareena Kapoor, India's highest paid actress. Kareena Kapoor impresses in Heroine, but is let down by the film itself, writes Raja Sen.

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