If there is any hate surrounding the publicity of this film, it would probably be due to the fact that many actresses probably wanted a chance to play Madhuri Dixit but couldn't get the role, or Bollywood didn't want you to see its ugly side. Pick either one and you'll probably be right. Antara Mali is the Madhuri Dixit of her village! She is so talented that she is literally bursting at the seams with it. Day in, Day out, much to her parents dismay, she puts on show after show, entertaining the happy and fanatical people of her village who can't seem to get enough of her turn as the famed Dixit. Don't miss the scene in which (inspired by the scenes of Devdas) she puts on a great show consisting of the Madhuri numbers from the film.
One day, her parents grow tired of her show-offs and plan to marry her off. When Chutki (Mali) learns of this, she runs to her best friend's (played by Rajpal Yadav) house and tells him the bad news. Raja, as he is fondly called, believes so much in his best-friend Chutki that he refuses to allow her parents to make such a big mistake. So, he plots with her to put on a marriage show for their family and villagers and that way they will be able to travel to Mumbai in the hopes of making it big. The scheme works and they get to go to Mumbai. Only once they get their they realise that everything is not as easy as it seems on television.
Disappointment after disappointment follows them every were and the dignity of Chutki is compromised so many times as she begins to learn the ways of the city as a villager visiting there for the first time. Chutki can get annoying at times, she isn't the least bit patient. She just wants to become a 'HEROINE' by all means that she loses out on many opportunities in the process. By the time she realises that she has to start from somewhere, all those free opportunities are long gone and now she has to pay her way to get to the top. Humiliated by the flop of her first major film release, she retreats to the village to find solace. Her famed destiny follows not too far behind, in this mostly ignored but otherwise superb film!
One day, her parents grow tired of her show-offs and plan to marry her off. When Chutki (Mali) learns of this, she runs to her best friend's (played by Rajpal Yadav) house and tells him the bad news. Raja, as he is fondly called, believes so much in his best-friend Chutki that he refuses to allow her parents to make such a big mistake. So, he plots with her to put on a marriage show for their family and villagers and that way they will be able to travel to Mumbai in the hopes of making it big. The scheme works and they get to go to Mumbai. Only once they get their they realise that everything is not as easy as it seems on television.
Disappointment after disappointment follows them every were and the dignity of Chutki is compromised so many times as she begins to learn the ways of the city as a villager visiting there for the first time. Chutki can get annoying at times, she isn't the least bit patient. She just wants to become a 'HEROINE' by all means that she loses out on many opportunities in the process. By the time she realises that she has to start from somewhere, all those free opportunities are long gone and now she has to pay her way to get to the top. Humiliated by the flop of her first major film release, she retreats to the village to find solace. Her famed destiny follows not too far behind, in this mostly ignored but otherwise superb film!