Click to play videoNew Delhi: After Mumbai's dance bars, high society and street life, filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar trains his lens on the fashion fraternity with his latest film Fashion.
Just like Page 3, Bhandarkar is happy playing a peeping Tom in this glamorous, highly competitive and creative world.
He attempts to explore the industry through an ambitious small town girl played by Priyanka Chopra who aspires to be a supermodel. The filmmaker lines up gay designers, stressed out models high on cocaine and tycoons who spread out the casting couch for your voyeuristic pleasure.
The filmmaker seems to have scripted his movie by stringing together a series of controversial items that have made news in the fashion world in recent times.
So you have – Kangana's character surviving a wardrobe malfunction like Carol Gracias and then doing a Gitanjali Nagpal. Kangana plays a successful model who ends up wasted on the streets after living the high life.
There are also references to designers accusing each other of stealing designs, which is straight out of the Akki Narula-Suneet Varma controversy.
And of course gay designers who lure male models in return of a big break. Some insiders who have seen the film felt that Bhandarkar might be angling for sensationalism instead of realism.
Fashion designer Shaina NC said, “Everyone need not be gay or a lesbian. There are a lot of positive sides to this industry.”
Meanwhile, model Sucheta said, “I could not relate to Priyanka's character completely. The point where she compromises in the film is something that I cannot relate to. It is because I have come up without doing such things. So that bit was a little over the top.”
But Bhandarkar's aim to please the masses seems to be working with reports of Fashion running house full at most multiplexes and single-screen theatres across the country.
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