Ga-ga over ‘The Dirty Picture’


Critics lap up Vidya Balan’s performance in film based on the true story of 80s Tamil movie screen siren Silk Smitha

NOWHERE is the fickleness of fortune more stark than in Bollywood. The world’s largest dream factory plays by its own rules, refusing to submit to what you might think is a winning formula. The most expensive film with the highest paid actors is as likely to turn into a dud at the box-office as a low-budget movie with unknown actors is likely to take the entire country by storm.

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