CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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The Dirty Picture posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE2011 2h 24m IND

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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The same director brings a similarly lush, retro Hindi-cinema sensibility, with ambitious outsiders, heightened emotion and glamorous period detail—though in a more brooding crime-drama register.

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CURATING YOUR NEXT FRAME

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

After running away from home in search of movie stardom, a village girl rises to become a prominent sex symbol.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Vidya Balan

Vidya Balan

Reshma / Silk

Emraan Hashmi

Emraan Hashmi

Abraham

Naseeruddin Shah

Naseeruddin Shah

Surya Kant

Tusshar Kapoor

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