Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Blooms Flowers Madhur Bhandarkar's effort at making movies about different, unexplored subjects is worthy of appreciation. A story about a model who struggles, rises to fame, becomes arrogant, sees the ugly side of the industry, makes mistakes, falls down the fame spiral and rises back up is a great idea. But the part where this movie disappointed was in it's execution. The lead character (Priyanka) comes across as foolish, arrogant, selfish and immature. Example: There is no reason why she argues with the designer who decides to make her the show-stopper. She gets into an affair with a married man with two children and what I really couldn't understand was what she expected from him. Love? She must've known it's not present even before she gets pregnant, yet begrudges him when he doesn't accept responsibility for the child. How she becomes easily arrogant and insults everyone, badmouths a fellow model and the way they react is all totally unconvincing. He decided to portray a gay couple which is great, but the way they one of them decides to get married for convincing his mother and the henceforth we always see always him with his 'wife'. Besides, if the industry is so cruel, how do her friends react so forgiving to her even when she spoils one of their shows. Then in the end she goes to a bar, gets drunk, and the next thing she sees, she's lying near an 'African' guy. It is highly offensive how she reacts to this and the way it was placed in the movie. Yet, one factor saving this movie from becoming worse, apart from the subject is the marvelous acting, especially from Kangana and from Priyanka. I had high hopes from the idea of the film, but it didn't quite live up to it.

karthik mohan Okay, quite frankly, i decided to watch the movie only for Priyanka Chopra but Mudhur's direction and the screen play bowled me over! "Fashion" is a story about a small-town girl who dreams to make it big in the modelling industry. As in any bollywood movie,her wish comes true and what she does with her new found popularity is what keeps the audience captivated.As far as Priyanka's acting is concerned,i just have 1 word- AMAZING! It's no wonder she won the national award! I really liked kangana's acting too. I am not a huge fan of her squeaky accent but i guess it worked out for her in this movie! oh yes, she won the National award too for Best supporting actress. There you go- 2 national awards, if that is'nt enough reason to watch this movie, then i don't know what is!However, i felt that the story was a bit predictable in-between,but with such amazing actors,it really did'nt bother me. Besides, the music fits the movie like a house on fire! This movie is a MUST WATCH! don't miss it for the world.

jmathur_swayamprabha In 1957, the livind legend of bollywood, Manoj Kumar debuted through a movie titled as Fashion. More than five decades later, the self-proclaimed realistic filmmaker of Hindi cinema, Madhur Bhandarkar who is habituated of showing the dark side of every phenomena in his movies, has presented a movie under the same title. The movie has not only got accolades for realistic (!) portrayal of the fashion world, but also is a box office hit and the leading ladies' winning prestigious awards for their performances in the movie, is certainly the icing on the cake. Now, should we believe anything picturised as reality, only because the storyteller has earned a reputation for himself as a realistic filmmaker ? Let's examine.Fashion is the story of a small town middle class girl who made it big in the modelling world of Mumbai. After watching the whole movie, what I felt is that the movie should have been appropriately titled as 'Model' instead of 'Fashion' because it is filled with the experiences of the (female) models throughout. It does not touch any other aspect of the fashion world or the fashion industry. Do a few ramp-walking models and ad-agencies are the whole fashion world, excluding the dress designers, their marketing, canvassing and cut-through competition; the tailors doing the real job, the changing fashion trends and the condemnable sexual exploitation of the newcomer models ? Madhur Bhandarkar wants us to believe that fashion world is just an aggregate of catwalk, big fashion shows, renowned showstopper supermodels, ad agency owners mighty enough to make or break any model's career and of course, drug abuse, all night parties, drunken driving, wayward one-night stands and gay fashion designers ? No Mr. Bhandarkar ! Fashion world is too big to be just the sum total of whatever you have shown. Howsoever intelligent a filmmaker might be, he cannot be allowed to take his audience for a ride.By incorporating the real life story of a ruined model - Geetanjali Nagpal through the character of Kangana Ranaut, Madhur Bhandarkar has tried to prove his plot as authentic. But everything portrayed by him - irresponsible and unprofessional behaviour, drug addiction, carefree sexual life etc. on the part of the successful models is too exaggerated to be true in general. The reality for a few cannot be generalised for all. If success goes to the head of a successful model and she starts behaving irresponsibly in her personal and professional life, inviting her doom; it is her problem and the fashion industry has nothing to do with it.Madhur's research work is also poor. He has depicted Adarsh Nagar in Mumbai as the big centre of struggler models. This is an outdated fact. Now the real centre for auditions of new models is Link Plaza at Oshivera, Mumbai.Madhur Bhandarkar has shown Priyanka, a small town girl with middle class morality, first living-in with another model, Arjan Bajwa and then getting sexually involved with any known-unknown person anytime without any hitch. Is it reality ? Come on Madhur ! The big reality is not an ambitious model's trading her sexual favours with an ad agency owner for stardom, the big reality is the forced sexual exploitation of thousands of aspiring newcomer girls by model coordinators and ad agency owners which has been very conveniently skipped by you. Why ? Because it is easy to expose anybody outside your fraternity but very difficult to expose your own fraternity people. A sign of hypocrisy. Isn't it ?By default perhaps, the good thing portrayed by Madhur Bhandarkar is how success goes to a person's head showing its ugly colour in his (in this film, her) behaviour, snatching the virtue of modesty and politeness, neglecting own well-wishers and creeping in of non-professional element in professional life. He has also shown the depression which is manifested when the life of the protagonist undergoes a lean patch. This is the bright side of the movie. It is also exemplary to show that one should strive hard to come out of depression and if fortunately life gives him (or her) another chance, he (or she) should exploit it to the fullest, avoiding earlier mistakes and transforming own personality in own interest.The movie is fast-paced and engrossing. And had Madhur termed this movie as an entertaining one instead of a realistic one, he would have been perfectly correct. The sets, the costumes and the technical aspects are good. The music has one or two chartbusters to its credit. Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut have deservingly won the national as well as the Filmfare awards for best actress and best supporting actress respectively for their performances. Kangana, though seems to have found herself typed as a ditched, lonely, melancholous girl which may not be good for her in the long run. Full supporting cast playing the characters that keep coming in and going out of the life of the main protagonist, i.e., Priyanka Chopra, has done a good job. The actress not winning any award but the hearts of the viewers with her debut performance itself, is Mugdha Godse.Madhur Bhandarkar's appearing in a scene of the movie and calling himself a realistic filmmaker through the mouth of another character in the scene, is ridiculous. Don't do this job yourself Madhur. Let others do it for you.My concluding comments upon this so-called realistic movie - it is not a movie about fashion; it is, in fact, a collection of dos and don'ts (especially don'ts) in times of unexpectedly received huge success and hard-hitting failure. And the message is to keep your cool in both the life-situations. As Lord Krishna advises us in Bhagvad-Geeta to be a STHIT-PRAGYA (a man maintaining his mental-balance in all times whether good or bad). And this is the real strength of Fashion.

arundathi It is interesting to see what it is like to be part of the fashion industry. I commend the director for creating a daring film staring mostly women. He tackled realistic issues such as coping using drugs and loneliness.One lesson learned from this movie is that aspiring to be independent and having too much confidence could be seen as arrogance and selfishness.Some parts of the movie seemed a bit unrealistic and too dramatic. I was amazed at Priyanka Chopra's acting. She really pulled thought and this type of role fits her well. Kangana Ranaut had a strong performance compared to Priyanka. Her role fit like a glove but I really want her to do something a little different than these types of roles. Mugdha Godse was just thrown into the mix to add glamor.The other supporting characters really added depth to the movie. The songs were interesting and tuneful. Also, the cinematography and editing was done nicely. Overall, I recommend this movie to any aspiring woman who wants to become an actress or a model not to discourage her but to be an eye opener.