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Film Star
Cast Mahima Chaudhary, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Vasundhara Das, Aryan
Vaid.
Director
Genre Drama
Year 2005
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
criticizes Hira. 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.
An inmate's (Vasundhara Das) past with her husband (Aryan Vaid) becomes the
present of this actress and threatens to destroy her future. The actress, the
drunk, the widow, the violent party-head…these lives get enmeshed with each
other as Hira struggles to become successful not just in the movies, but also in
life. And this isn't easy she finds out…as she realizes…that life…is much more
than films.
   
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