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This much-hyped show that
apparently traces a simple
girl's unexepected journey to
stardom started with a bang
alright. The tale seemed gripping enough… Padmini (Pallavi
Purohit), the second wife of a
tyrannical thakur Balraj
Choudhary (Raj Zutshi) is pregnant with his child. But when
he threatens to kill both
Padmini and the newborn if
the baby happens to be a girl,
she escapes to Mumbai with
his older daughter Trishna. On
arriving in Mumbai, Padmini
delivers a baby girl on the sets
of a film and it is in this film
industry that she finds home
and a support in friends —
Malick and Roma (Rakhi Vij).
The two daughters grow up
surrounded by junior artists
and archlights. But while
Trishna (Aarti Puri) grows up to
be a junior artist, even as she
aspires to be a heroine someday and can't stop dreaming of
starring opposite superstar RK
(Vivian Dsena), joining the
industry is not on younger sis
Madhubala's (Drashti Dhami)
radar at all. Supporting her sister's ambition, she herself
works in a parlour, and is the
doting dutiful daughter.
Though Padmini's left her past
behind, memories keep haunting her as she keeps having
flashbacks of her husband
and his cruel Ammaji
(Shagufta Ali).
Despite the grand treatment and high production
value, the show itself has
failed to impress beyond the
first few episodes and the
show often slips into the predictable been there seen that
sequences. Rakhi livens up
the screen and her track with
Aarti is one of the few interesting ones and the maturity of
Malick's character is welldepicted too, but it is the lead
actor Drashti who fails to
impress much. Blame it on her
staid dialogues or not too
inspiring sequences, but her
character graph so far offers
nothing new, and limits her
scope to go beyond the brief.
Considering the show is all
about her rise in the industry,
she seems miles away to even
have reached the runway
before the take off. All in all,
there's enough scope for many
filmi twists and turns, but
unless they are well-tapped,
capturing the 70mm dream on
the small screen may remain a
dream for the show.
-Aakanksha Naval-Shetye
Rating - 2.5/5
Entertaining only in parts!
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