- Page 3 (film)
Infobox Film
name = Page 3
director =Madhur Bhandarkar
writer = Madhur Bhandarkar
Nina Arora
Manoj Tyagi
Sanjiv Dutta
starring =Konkona Sen Sharma
Atul Kulkarni Sandhya Mridul Tara Sharma Boman Irani
Bikram Saluja
Upendra Limaye
producer = Baldev Pushkarna
Kavita Pushkarna
distributor =
cinematography = Madhu Rao
editing = Suresh Pai| released =2005
runtime = 139 min.
language =Hindi / English
music = Raju Singh
Shamir Tandon
imdb_id = 0443708"Page 3" (
2005 ) is aHindi / Englishfilm , directed byMadhur Bhandarkar . It starsKonkona Sen Sharma , andAtul Kulkarni . The film won threeNational Film Awards in2005 , including the Golden Lotus Award for Best Film.Synopsis
Madhavi Sharma (
Konkona Sen Sharma ) arrives inMumbai and soon lands a journalist job. Her boss Deepak Suri (Boman Irani ) gives her the task of reporting celebrity news. She begins her journey in the glitzy and glamourous world of celebrity lifestyle.Her roommate Pearl Sequiera (
Sandhya Mridul ) is an air hostess and wants to marry for money. Gayatri Sachdeva (Tara Sharma ) later joins them. She is an aspiring actress and gets involved with a leading actor Rohit Kumar (Bikram Saluja ). When she tells him she is pregnant he suggests she have an abortion; depressed and shattered, she unsuccessfully tries to kill herself and lands up losing her unborn child. Meanwhile, Pearl marries a wealthy old man and moves to theUnited States . Madhavi plans to expose Rohit Kumar (by writing an article on his relationship with Gayatri), but her editor kills the article and she is forced to apologise to Rohit Kumar.Madhavi finds out that her boyfreind is gay with her best freind.
As soon as Madhavi begins to get disillusioned with her job of covering lives of these celebs she declares that “the party is over” for her. She soon realises that the glamourous world of celebrity life is not as glamourous as it seems. As well her roomate who supposedly returned to Delhi sleeps with a director and gets put in a movie.
Cast
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Konkona Sen Sharma ... Madhvi Sharma
*Atul Kulkarni ... Vinayak Mane
*Sandhya Mridul ... Pearl Sequiera
*Tara Sharma ... Gayatri Sachdeva
*Anju Mahendru ...Ritu Bajaj
*Boman Irani ... Deepak Suri
*Bikram Saluja ... Rohit Kumar
*Nasser Abdullah ...Romesh ThaparAwards
The film has won the following awards since its release:
2005 National Film Awards (India )
* Golden Lotus Award - Best Film - Bobby Pushkarna
* Silver Lotus Award - Best Screenplay - Nina Arora, Manoj Tyagi
* Silver Lotus Award - Best Editing - Suresh Pai2005 Zee Cine Awards (India )
* Best Female Debut - Konkona Sen SharmaExternal links
*imdb title|id=0443708|title=Page 3
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