Of course, no one feels entirely happy that so many studios’ go-for-broke investments in streaming are blowing up in their faces. Maybe that ends up cheapening the experience of watching movies to the point where the work doesn’t seem as urgent or valuable? Hey, maybe there’s a downside to envisioning streaming platforms as tubes from which people consume undifferentiated content, whenever, so long as it’s new. The future of theaters remains uncertain, but our critics are cautiously optimistic. Fans of Top Gun: Maverick, Everything Everywhere All At Once, and RRR happily embraced the insides of cineplexes after avoiding them since the pandemic (or, for some, even earlier). Fans of Prey, Disenchanted, and Glass Onion bemoaned the full theatrical releases that could have been. Netflix and several of its competitors took a financial hit in 2022 meanwhile, certain audiences expressed exhaustion with the idea of watching movies at home as the default option. This year, the iron grip that streaming has held on our culture seemed to have loosened a bit. I give it 3/10.Photo-Illustration: Photo Illustration: Rowena Lloyd and Susanna Hayward Photos: Courtesy of the Studios Watch Heroine only for Bebo! You won't be disappointed at least with her performance. Salim- Sulaiman did a great job of composing some heart-touching music like 'Saiyaan' along with a raunchy number 'Halkat Jawani' in which Bebo oozes with sexiness. The movie drags in the second half just like Fashion and the impact of a hard-hitting cinema is largely missing at that point.

These clichés are so long-drawn and get too tiring at some point. He throws in a lot of clichés and caricaturish characters in Heroine too. Otherwise, Bhandarkar paves the same nails as he did in Fashion with Heroine.

It's safe to say that Bebo has given a role of a lifetime in Heroine.

The scenes involving her as smoking, drinking and popping anti-depressant pills leave you breathless. Bebo gives her best shot as Mahi Arora and is utterly convincing as a manic depressive heroine who is on a downward spiral. But what catches your eyes is the presentation of the film and a really good performance from the lead actor, Kareena Kapoor. It' just a collaboration of Madhur Bhandarkar's earlier works, Chandni Bar, and Fashion.

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