They say that one works all one’s life to get famous, only to wear dark glasses to avoid getting noticed. So true.
I think the story of Fashion is set on the right background, the background of middle class India, where people want to live like the rich and powerful thinking that money is the solution to all their problems. Hence, they flock for all the reality shows and every opportunity that might make them famous.
But, most of them are not aware that how much pain and how much work goes behind looking good 24X7. And most of these people crumble under the pressure that success carries with it. And a Madhur Bhandarkar makes a Fashion on their life stories.
That’s the story of fashion, backed by some fabulous performances by the leading actors. And somewhere at some point in the movie you will feel that you have also passed through the same indecisiveness in your life. Or have seen someone close to you go through it. That’s what touches the most and makes the story so real.
It’s also a story of triumph against all odds. Of getting up and running every time you fall.
But I love the end the most. It ends with the thought that we are never told the price we need to pay for our dreams. So true. As today most Indians are living their dreams to suddenly realize the baggage that comes with their dreams is not what they had foreseen and are forced to live with that weight on their shoulders, even as they smile to the outside world flaunting their success.
And then the nagging pain within starts that takes you to places where you have never been before and makes you go through hell. A hell that only few can recover from.
That’s fashion for you guys. Please watch it. It’s success from a different point of view.