One minute she wants love, the next nothing will do but superstardom, the next she wants to be a real artist. Who could? Part victim, part operator, Mahi is a tear-streaked mess, whose desires change from scene to scene. Kapoor does melancholy well, but she can’t make Mahi’s 1,001 other emotions cohere. With her long Modigliani face and sad green eyes, Ms. Though the movie has a few unexpected moments - just when you’re wondering if it knows it’s throwing Mahi into another woman’s arms, it throws her into another woman’s arms - this show business tell-all doesn’t go much deeper than a fan magazine would and can’t decide whether to titillate or tsk-tsk. This is a world of petty jealousies, where sex is traded for favors, and the hot thing today is old news tomorrow. Bhandarkar throws every bad thing that’s ever happened to a Bollywood actress at poor Mahi, then watches as she squirms, schemes and suffers for 149 minutes. Pulpy but attenuated, “Heroine” tries to do too much: deliver an exposé of the back-stabbing film business while also drawing a portrait of a woman caught in its vice. Stardom is a vale of tears in Madhur Bhandarkar’s “Heroine,” about the ups and downs, and downs and downs of Mahi Arora (Kareena Kapoor), a Bollywood queen with a self-destructive flair for making headlines.

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