Page-3

Page3, a bollywood movie, aspires to be very different but doesn't quite live up to its aspirations. Overall its a good flick to watch once.

The movie portrays the lives of an upstart journalist, an aspiring actor and an ageing air-hostess waiting to reel in a big rich fish so that she can settle down to a comfortable life. The story's backdrop is Bombay's socialite scene littered with vainglorious celebrities and celebrity wannabes. The movie is also ambitious to deal with the lives of two gays - a make-up artist and a fashion designer and the Bombay drug scene.

The movie deals with the gritty hard realities of life in a big metropolis and is shorn of any weepy sentimentalities that Indian movies are so prone to. The scenes shift seamlessly between shallow bollywood parties and street life. Howevers as is the wont for any Indian movies a lot of the aspects of Bollywood life and the party scenes are exaggerated.

However, the end was not bad. As opposed to a fairy tale ending, this one showed were people are hurt and that their lives are changed at the end of it all.