Miss Lovely (2014)

You won't be disappointed!

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Here's a 'Bollywood' movie that breaks almost every possible trope that Hindi movies have and that too with what style and pizazz! Alas, it does so without paying much attention its script and therein lies the movie's weakness.The movie itself is an exploration of the shady underbelly of the Mumbai film industry by focusing on the tribulations of two brothers who are trying to make it 'big' but at the risk of losing everything they hold dear. At the same time, we as audience are given a glimpse into just how dirty, sleazy, crass, amoral and downright abhorrent the world of unorganized Bombay film industry is. What makes the movie so compelling is that it does this with great visual style that holds the viewer attention. So even when I was disgusted with what I was seeing, I was completely enrapt.At least for the first 30 minutes of the movie. Sadly, the plot and the script is loose, the dialogue is shoddy and the overall plot is meandering with multiple plot lines crisscrossing each other with not much attention paid to a single one. As a result, the movie as a story feels unsatisfactory. However, as a portrait into the B/C grade movie industry, it was fascinating. I have no idea of what's happening in Bollywood in 2018, but I do know the more things change, they remain the same. In that sense, this movie may as well be a description of what's happening even today - I wouldn't be suprised to learn that some flat in Byculla or Santacruz is being used right now as an impromptu studio for a shooting blue film with some hapless young girl lying naked, being exploited, dreaming of making it 'big' with strips of cocaine on the coffee table.PS: In a away, the lack of loose plot makes sense. IMDB's trivia page reveals that the movie was supposed to be a documentary but the makers felt they were getting too close to the industry which still has criminal elements associated with it. Risking for their lives, the movie makers decided to fictionalize the characters and make a movie instead.

Miss Lovely is a baring tale of two brothers as producers in the C-grade Hindi film industry. The story portrays the relationship between the two brothers, intertwined in a love story with the backdrop of the pornographic film industry. Nawaz is probably the best thing that has happened to Hindi cinema and he does a commendable performance in playing the shy, vulnerable brother. His character along with the other characters keep the story moving. Anil George as the bully big brother and Niharika Singh as the innocent, naive girl too have given great performances in the movie and kept to their characters well. Each character was well cast which made the story even more interesting. There is no moment of boredom which makes the movie watchable till the end. You would probably associate this movie with "Boogie Nights" where the director Ashim takes you to a whole new different world, showing us the real picture of the pornographic industry through the characters. I would definitely recommend this movie to all the viewers.

There are some films that defy norms, mostly succeed in festivals Miss Lovely which was sent to Cannes and released only in 2014 though complete in 2012 is one such film The treatment is very different. The film exposes C Grade industry and the makers have done a superb job The attention of detail, recreating 80s deserves full marks, the film unlike other films shows us an almost true picture of 80s The drama too is well handledDirection is good Music is okayNawzuddin Siddiqui is simply superb in his role, this maybe one of his first films, Anil George is superb too, Niharika too is superb as Pinky rest are okay

A lot better than any other genre of this movie. If you can portray so much reality in a movie, then the movie maker is really outstanding. Reality in looks, in language, in expressions, in problems and their solutions. Reality can be more felt when someone is really from these regions of the world.The kind of tension and awkwardness that is shown can be generally felt in these regions.Most importantly I liked the posters of the film. They are like I am seeing the covers of 60s and 70s...I was first alerted of this movie by the sheer waves it was making in the Cannes Film Festival, and for the very obvious reason that it featured the hugely talented maverick director, Ashim Ahluwalia, but after they won the award i was not surprised with the results.