Shakeela – A Poor Man’s Dirty Picture

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Shakeela – A Poor Man’s Dirty Picture filmifanclub.com/movie-review/shakeela-a-poor-mans-dirty-picture.html December 30, 2020

ADVERTISEMENT Shakeela, with Richa Chadha in lead, is a biopic of south indian adult star Shakeela, her rise to stardom and her downfall. Directed by Indrajit Lankesh, Shakeela on paper resembles a lot with Vidya Balan’s The Dirty Picture released in 2011, but is nowhere near the film when it comes to other aspects. Plot Film starts with Shakeela (Richa Chadha) agreeing to undergo a Narco test to testify her story to a journalist, who will take the story and her personal side to people. ADVERTISEMENT Flashback then takes us to villages in South where young Shakeela (Kajol Chugh) is a happy go lucky girl, who works with her father, enjoys the plays and dramas in school. But as fate plays, family is distraught when her father passes away. Her mother, who was a junior actor in some movies, takes her to a director where he casts her in a vulgar film, and thus starts her career which took her to the heights for being one of the most successful and controversial stars in Malayalam cinema. Shakeela, who is shown as a big fan of superstar Saleem (Pankaj Tripathi), is on cloud nine when she gets a chance to work with him, but she did not give in to his advances which irks the actor. As Shakeela keeps on riding high on her success, after a point Saleem gets insecure of her and plots her downfall, resulting in getting her films banned and asking producers not to work with her. What happens to Shakeela’s career when she is at loggerheads with one of the bigwigs of the industry, with her films getting banned and no one supporting her through this time is what the film deals with. The Hits

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