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'Page 3' Exposé of the elite By Nitika DesaiFilm critic, ApunKaChoice.

"...ComMadhur Bhandarkar’s movie ‘Page 3’ takes a candid look into the lives of celebrities and stars that adorn the third page of newspaper. The film penetrates through the façade of their ‘hunky-dory’ lives and reveals the hypocrisy, superficiality and shallowness that lie underneath.

Madhavi takes to her job like a fish to water and soon becomes a known face in the parties and get togethers. That is when she gradually begins to see the glimpses of the reality behind the beautiful facades. The real faces of Page 3 celebs are exposed through a number of characters – businessmen and their resentful wives, social workers with dysfunctional families, politicians and their lofty talks, friends that backbite each other, desensitized cops, pedophiles, drug addicts, a gay make-up artist, a ‘person’ with indeterminate sex, and so on…

The director also brings out a fine contrast in the second half of his story by shifting the focus to downtown Mumbai and revealing its shady denizens like prostitutes, pimps, petty criminals, drug peddlers and so on.Konkana Sen fits well into the role of a rookie journalist owing to her unassuming persona. She catches the nuances of her character well enough and finely brings out its disillusionment of the shallow and pretentious side of high society life. Another plus point of ‘Page 3’ is that the songs have been kept in the background. However, one item number Kuan Ma Doob Jaaoongi simply irritates.

All in all, a good movie.

My comments: This review was taken from .. http://www.apunkachoice.com/movies/mov490/
and it basically tells us that this film has a strong reflection of reality. After watching this film people tend to think now that Bollywood has actually stepped into a different genre. Bollywood has obviously been influenced by the western culture, "pimps..." not only in characters but by in genre has followed this realistic approach in many other Films not only 'Page 3'.The film was a hit in britain the western audience liked it however in India there was alot of dispute about it and how it was frowned upon. This could suggest that people in India are so into films being made for escapism that when the truth is shown they seen to take a downwards approach.