The Dirty Picture

     I saw this movie yesterday. Its been a very long time since I've watched a movie in the theatre and this movie featured Vidyabalan, Nazirudhin shah,so naturally I went with lot of expectations. Though I was not completely disappointed, it was apparent that the movie lacked the intensity.

It had all the ingredients that any movie could hope for. Critically acclaimed actors,proven director and most important of all, the most controversial and juicy story of Silk smitha- the sultry south indian actress on whom the movie is based. It was very successful in attracting the publicity with Vidyabalan's generous show of her cleavage. But I guess it did not do justice to Silk smitha.

I expected a very intense story with compelling reasons that justify why Silk smitha committed suicide. But instead, the movie fell completely off the track in the second track. Through out first half she was shown as a very strong woman, a go-getter and as some was one who is madly in love with Surya kanth(allegedly Ragnikanth!!). She knows his status as a married man and still chooses to sleep with him. But suddenly she was shown to have realization that he was using her ( In fact,he told her quite clearly that he slept with 500 woman and that she'd be 501). I don't know why it took her half the movie to realize that!

And a sudden-and unjustified- change in the second half. She sees the true colors of Surya kanth and then decides to seduce his brother,Rama kanth. I thought she was seducing him just to take revenge- but I was wrong again. She fell in love with him. She goes crazy. As a result, she looses him too.She produces a movie which flops utterly and she goes bankrupt making her a hopeless drunkard.

All along the movie,this so-called intelligent movie director,Emran hashmi, hates her for her skin show. But  miraculously, he falls to these erotic movies and strangely drawn towards Silk when she was at her worst-both financially and looks wise. I could not understand this at all- but i do agree that people do crazy things when they are in love.Anyway, she was bankrupt but she had Emran hashmi who is rich and successful. She could easily change and could have lived happily But I could not understand at all why she committed suicide and that too in a dramatic manner.

  Overall, Vidya balan showed tooo much cleavage even for Silk smitha's character. Looking at her fat belly and excessive- but unattractive- exposing was very uncomfortable. But she looked quite aseducing and damn sexy in a couple of scenes- Truly erotic. Other than that , the movie had few killer dialogues.Some crazy,yet interesting performance by Vidya balan. To me, none of Emran hasmi, Nazeerudhin shah and of course Tushhar kapoor  failed to make any impact. Their roles lacked that punch. I guess it was some 2.5-3 on 5.