Can Kareena Kapoor's Heroine beat Vidya Balan's Kahaani?

After an age-long rule of the male stars in Bollywood, the current woman-centric scripts have paved a way to the actresses to play central characters in films. The current scenario is such that the actresses are at par with each other with the power of such challenging movies.

Vidya Balan's back to back success The Dirty Picture and Kahaani might face a threat from Kareena Kapoor's upcoming Heroine, since all these movies are based on female-centric themes. Vidya who was basking in The Dirty Picture's success, has yet again won herself acclodes for Kahaani, where she herself plays the hero of the movie.

But reports say that Bhandarkar's Heroine is one of the finest female centric scripts Bollywood has ever seen. In fact the filmmaker has even promised that the world will see Kareena as never before. While Vidya's performance is being talked about so much for Kahaani, Bebo's glamorous avatar is such that there would be fireworks all over again with Heroine.

Both the stories are based on different story lines, while a pregnant Vidya runs for her missing husband, Mahie Khanna (Kareena) in Heroine traces the meteoric rise and tragic downfall of the fictitious actress.

Witnessing National Award winning Bhandarkar's confidence, filmmakers Sujoy Ghosh and Milan Luthria are possibly facing a tough time in accepting Heroine's upcoming surprise.

'Dirty Picture' collects Rs 52 cr after week one

New Delhi: The huge promotional drive seems to have worked in favour of 'The Dirty Picture'. The film has shown a great promise at the box office. So far, the film has fetched more than Rs 50 crore, a difficult feat to achieve by any standard.

Trade analyst Taran Adarsh has tweeted about the collections at the end of week one. He tweets,"#TheDirtyPicture collects 52.5 cr nett in Wk 1. Fri 9.54 cr, Sat 10.78 cr, Sun 12.38 cr, Mon 5.72 cr, Tue 6.21 cr, Wed 4.4 cr, Thu 3.5 cr."

Produced by Ekta and Shobha Kapoor, The Dirty Picture's mega success has come as a surprise to trade pundits too. Adarsh tweets,"#TheDirtyPicture fetches one of the biggest starts, touching the coveted Rs 50 cr nett mark in Wk 1, a status only few films have enjoyed."

The Vidya Balan starrer had received mostly positive reviews from the critics on its release. They have rated Balan's acting in the film as one of the finest performances in recent times.

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