Page 3 (film)

Page 3

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar
Produced by Bobby Pushkarna
Kavita Pushkarna
Screenplay by Manoj Tyagi
Nina Arora
Starring Konkona Sen Sharma
Atul Kulkarni
Boman Irani
Music by Virgin EMI Shamir Tandon
Cinematography Madhu Rao
Edited by Suresh Pai
Distributed by Lighthouse Films Pvt. Ltd.
Sahara One
Release dates
  • January 21, 2005
Running time
 139 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi

Page 3 is a 2005 Indian drama film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar and produced by Bobby Pushkarna and Kavita Pushkarna about the Page 3 culture and media in the city of Mumbai. It stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Atul Kulkarni, Sandhya Mridul, Tara Sharma, Anju Mahendru, and Boman Irani. The film won three National Film Awards, including the Golden Lotus Award for Best Film. The film also features actor Sunil Shetty in a special appearance.

This article exposes insight into Page 3 life in cosmopolitan cities.

Plot

Madhavi Sharma (Konkona Sen Sharma) arrives in Mumbai and soon lands a journalist job. Her boss Deepak Suri (Boman Irani) gives her the task of reporting celebrity news. She begins her journey in the glitzy and glamorous world of celebrity lifestyle working on Page 3. Her roommate Pearl Sequiera (Sandhya Mridul) is an air hostess and wants to marry for money. Gayatri Sachdeva (Tara Sharma) later joins them. She is an aspiring actress and gets involved with a leading actor, Rohit Kumar (Bikram Saluja). When she tells him that she is pregnant with his baby, he suggests she have an abortion. Depressed and shattered, she unsuccessfully tries to commit suicide and, in the process, loses her unborn child. Meanwhile, Pearl marries a wealthy old man and moves to the United States. Madhavi plans to expose Rohit by writing an article on his relationship with Gayatri, but her editor kills the article, and she is forced to apologise to Rohit.

Madhavi finds out that her boyfriend is gay, when she finds him in bed with her best friend, Abhijeet (Rehaan Engineer). As soon as Madhavi begins to get disillusioned with her job, she declares that 'the party is over' for her. She soon realises that the glamorous world of celebrity life is not as glamorous as it seems. She requests her manager to assign her to a different field and lands on the "crime beat" with Vinayak. She accompanies Vinayak as they comb the city for all kinds of crime news.

On one such trip, they witness a bomb blast in city which affects Madhavi emotionally. Forced to pull out due to her boss to cover a Bollywood party, she comes across the ACP in charge of the bomb blast she witnessed, insensitively discussing the incident. This disturbs her and she lectures the ACP, who was apparently at a film shoot instead of attending to his responsibilities towards the injured. As Vinayak goes to cover another news, Madhavi asks to take charge of crime news. She gets a tip that a number of boys from Anjali Thapar's rehabilitation home have gone missing, as during a search, a number of boys could not be accounted for. Police inspector Bhosle finds out that a number of children are at Ramesh Thapar's bunglow; but he does not have a search warrant. However, based on Madhavi's words, he conducts a raid and arrests Ramesh Thapar, who is using children for sex acts; Bhosle also finds other corporate personalities. Madhavi captures the whole story with photo shoot, asks this new item to be the headline for the next day's news edition, and hands out all the details to her Boss. He promises to take serious note of the issue and do his best; the same night he meets with the newspaper owner, who is the best friend of Mr. Thapar (from whom his paper receives major advertisements and other events coverage contract). Fearing major loss to his business, the owner declines to publish the news, and asks Madhavi be dismissed from service.

Meanwhile Gayatri, who supposedly returned to Delhi, sleeps with a director and gets cast in a movie.

Cast

Awards

The film has won the following awards since its release:

2005 National Film Awards (India)

2005 Zee Cine Awards (India)

Nominations

Death of Amit Ralli

During principal photography, lead actor Amit Ralli died suddenly from jaundice due to hepatitis C.[1] He was 26 at the time. He was replaced by Jai Kalra who made his Bollywood debut with this film.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Indo-Asian News Service (May 15, 2004). "Death of young actor Amit Ralli shocks the film unit". nowrunning.com. Retrieved 3 May 2012.

External links

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