Page 3 (film)
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Page 3 is a 2005 Indian film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar
about the Page 3 Culture
and media in the city of Mumbai. It stars Konkona Sen Sharma
, Atul Kulkarni
, Sandhya Mridul
, Tara Sharma
, Anju Mahendru
, and Boman Irani
. The film won three National Film Awards
, including the Golden Lotus Award for Best Film.
) arrives in Mumbai
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 glamorous world of celebrity lifestyle working on Page 3
.
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 commit suicide and in the process loses her unborn child. Meanwhile, Pearl marries a wealthy old man and moves to the United States
. Madhavi plans to expose Rohit (by writing an article on his relationship with Gayatri), but her editor kills the article and she is forced to apologise to Rohit.
Madhavi finds out that her boyfriend is gay
when she finds him in bed with her best friend Abhijeet (Rehaan Engineer).
As soon as Madhavi begins to get disillusioned with her job, she declares that “the party is over” for her. She soon realises that the glamorous world of celebrity life is not as glamorous as it seems. Gayatri, who supposedly returned to Delhi, sleeps with a director and gets cast in a movie.
2005 National Film Awards
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2005 Zee Cine Awards
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Madhur Bhandarkar
Madhur Bhandarkar is a National Award-winning Indian film director, script writer, and producer. He is best known for his films such as Chandni Bar , Page 3 , Traffic Signal , and Fashion...
about the Page 3 Culture
Page 3 Culture
Page 3 Culture is the name given to tabloid culture, India's partying, high society or upper class, metropolitan culture, specifically Mumbai and Delhi, which features on Page Three tabloid newspaper feature.-Description:...
and media in the city of Mumbai. It stars Konkona Sen Sharma
Konkona Sen Sharma
Konkona Sen Sharma is an Indian actress. She is the daughter of actress and filmmaker Aparna Sen. Sharma appears primarily in Indian arthouse and independent films, and her achievements in the genre have established her as one of the leading actresses of contemporary parallel cinema.Making her...
, Atul Kulkarni
Atul Kulkarni
Atul Kulkarni born 10 September 1965 is an Indian actor who has won two National Awards and has superstar status in Marathi film industry after successful movies like Valu and Natarang....
, Sandhya Mridul
Sandhya Mridul
Sandhya Mridul is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films and television, most known for her roles in films like, movies like Saathiya and Page 3 , and was first runners up in reality dance show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa .-Personal life and education:Mridul, also called 'Sandy', was born in...
, Tara Sharma
Tara Sharma
Tara Sharma is an Indian actress. She is half British and half Indian.-Personal life:Sharma is the daughter of the well-known author and actor, Partap Sharma, and Susan Sharma, and is an alumna of the London School of Economics and of the United World College of the Adriatic. She is married to ad...
, Anju Mahendru
Anju Mahendru
-Personal life and education:Mahendru was born in Dehradun. She is famed for her relationship with famous Bollywood star Rajesh Khanna and was briefly engaged to cricket player Gary Sobers.-Career:...
, and Boman Irani
Boman Irani
Boman Irani is an Indian film and theatre actor and photographer. Irani began his acting career in theatre and moved to film in 2000 at the age of 44 with a role in Josh...
. The film won three National Film Awards
National Film Awards
The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it is administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.Every year, a national panel...
, including the Golden Lotus Award for Best Film.
Plot
Madhavi Sharma (Konkona Sen SharmaKonkona Sen Sharma
Konkona Sen Sharma is an Indian actress. She is the daughter of actress and filmmaker Aparna Sen. Sharma appears primarily in Indian arthouse and independent films, and her achievements in the genre have established her as one of the leading actresses of contemporary parallel cinema.Making her...
) arrives in Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
and soon lands a journalist job. Her boss Deepak Suri (Boman Irani
Boman Irani
Boman Irani is an Indian film and theatre actor and photographer. Irani began his acting career in theatre and moved to film in 2000 at the age of 44 with a role in Josh...
) gives her the task of reporting celebrity news. She begins her journey in the glitzy and glamorous world of celebrity lifestyle working on Page 3
Page 3 Culture
Page 3 Culture is the name given to tabloid culture, India's partying, high society or upper class, metropolitan culture, specifically Mumbai and Delhi, which features on Page Three tabloid newspaper feature.-Description:...
.
Her roommate Pearl Sequiera (Sandhya Mridul
Sandhya Mridul
Sandhya Mridul is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films and television, most known for her roles in films like, movies like Saathiya and Page 3 , and was first runners up in reality dance show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa .-Personal life and education:Mridul, also called 'Sandy', was born in...
) is an air hostess and wants to marry for money. Gayatri Sachdeva (Tara Sharma
Tara Sharma
Tara Sharma is an Indian actress. She is half British and half Indian.-Personal life:Sharma is the daughter of the well-known author and actor, Partap Sharma, and Susan Sharma, and is an alumna of the London School of Economics and of the United World College of the Adriatic. She is married to ad...
) 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 commit suicide and in the process loses her unborn child. Meanwhile, Pearl marries a wealthy old man and moves to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Madhavi plans to expose Rohit (by writing an article on his relationship with Gayatri), but her editor kills the article and she is forced to apologise to Rohit.
Madhavi finds out that her boyfriend is gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
when she finds him in bed with her best friend Abhijeet (Rehaan Engineer).
As soon as Madhavi begins to get disillusioned with her job, she declares that “the party is over” for her. She soon realises that the glamorous world of celebrity life is not as glamorous as it seems. Gayatri, who supposedly returned to Delhi, sleeps with a director and gets cast in a movie.
Cast
- Konkona Sen SharmaKonkona Sen SharmaKonkona Sen Sharma is an Indian actress. She is the daughter of actress and filmmaker Aparna Sen. Sharma appears primarily in Indian arthouse and independent films, and her achievements in the genre have established her as one of the leading actresses of contemporary parallel cinema.Making her...
... Madhvi Sharma - Atul KulkarniAtul KulkarniAtul Kulkarni born 10 September 1965 is an Indian actor who has won two National Awards and has superstar status in Marathi film industry after successful movies like Valu and Natarang....
... Vinayak Mane - Sandhya MridulSandhya MridulSandhya Mridul is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films and television, most known for her roles in films like, movies like Saathiya and Page 3 , and was first runners up in reality dance show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa .-Personal life and education:Mridul, also called 'Sandy', was born in...
... Pearl Sequiera - Tara SharmaTara SharmaTara Sharma is an Indian actress. She is half British and half Indian.-Personal life:Sharma is the daughter of the well-known author and actor, Partap Sharma, and Susan Sharma, and is an alumna of the London School of Economics and of the United World College of the Adriatic. She is married to ad...
... Gayatri Sachdeva - Anju MahendruAnju Mahendru-Personal life and education:Mahendru was born in Dehradun. She is famed for her relationship with famous Bollywood star Rajesh Khanna and was briefly engaged to cricket player Gary Sobers.-Career:...
...Ritu Bajaj - Boman IraniBoman IraniBoman Irani is an Indian film and theatre actor and photographer. Irani began his acting career in theatre and moved to film in 2000 at the age of 44 with a role in Josh...
... Deepak Suri - Bikram Saluja ... Rohit Kumar
- Nasser Abdullah...Romesh Thapar
- Rehaan Engineer...Abhijeet Patnaik
- Soni Razdan... Anjali Thapar
- KunikaKunikaKunika is a notable film actress, she was especially involved in a lot of films in villain and comic roles. She also is a singer and launched two albums, the first being mitti. She has two sons.-Personal life:...
... Party Freak - Kurush DebooKurush DebooKurush Deboo is an Indian film actor. He was first noticed as Shah Rukh Khans loyal friend in Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa. He is most famous for his role as Dr...
... Hiren Sanghvi - Madan Jain...ACP Rathod
- Bobby DarlingBobby DarlingBobby Darling, born ', is an Indian actor who has acted in various Bollywood and regional Indian films.Darling, who was born biologically male, identifies with being a woman, insists that interviewers address her as such, and has had cosmetic surgery towards that end.She has been romantically...
... Zulfi Khan - Manoj JoshiManoj JoshiManoj Joshi is an Indian journalist and author. As of 2009, he is Comment Editor with the Mail Today newspaper in India.He finished his schooling from the prestigious St. Joseph's College in Nainital. After an undergraduate degree at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Joshi studied history at Lucknow...
... Bosco - Suhasini MulaySuhasini MulaySuhasini Mulay is an Indian actress in Bollywood and Marathi films as well as television. She won National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999, for her performance in Gulzar's film Hu Tu Tu.-Early life and education:...
... Partima Bharve - Maya Alagh... Pushpa Bhargav
- Upendra LimayeUpendra LimayeUpendra Limaye is a versatile Indian actor who has performed a wide variety of roles on stage, screen and television. He has earned several prestigious awards for acting. He has acted in numerous experimental plays, Marathi parallel films, television serials, Hindi mainstream movies and a few South...
... Inspector Arun Bhonsle - Dolly ThakoreDolly Thakore-Career:Most of her career has been spent on the stage but she appeared in the 2005 film Page 3.Thakore was the casting director for the Academy Award winning film Gandhi back in 1982 where she was also responsible for recruiting the Indian actors in the film and for some of the PR work on the...
... Publisher's Wife - Yusuf Hasan... Publisher
- Suchitra Pillai...Page 3 Socialite
- Navni Parihar...Sheetal
- Kishen Mulchandani...Page 3 Socialite
- Mukesh Tyagi...Politician
- Jay Kalra...Tarun
- Pradeep Velankar...Film Maker Charu Mohanty
- Parmeeta...Dancer (in the song Kuwa Maa)
Awards
The film has won the following awards since its release:2005 National Film Awards
National Film Awards
The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it is administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.Every year, a national panel...
(India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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- Golden Lotus Award - Best FilmNational Film Award for Best FilmThe National Award for Best Feature film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, India, and was constituted in the year 1954. This is one of the Golden Lotus Awards given among National Film Awards...
- Bobby Pushkarna - Silver Lotus Award - Best ScreenplayNational Film Award for Best ScreenplayThe National Film Award for Best Screenplay winners:-References:...
- Nina Arora, Manoj Tyagi - Silver Lotus Award - Best EditingNational Film Award for Best EditingThe National Film Award for Best Editing winners:-References:...
- Suresh Pai
2005 Zee Cine Awards
Zee Cine Awards
The Zee Cine Awards or "ZCA" for short is an awards ceremony for the Hindi film industry. It was first held in 1998 in Mumbai. Since then, it has gained substantial popularity as a notable awards ceremony to the Indian population as well as to the viewers of Zee Network.In 2004, the ZCA went...
(India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
)
- Best Female DebutZee Cine Award Best Female DebutThe Zee Cine Award Best Female Debut is chosen by the jury. They give awards to the new discoveries of Bollywood where they see some potential.The winners are listed below:-...
- Konkona Sen Sharma
Nominations
- Filmfare Award for Best Film - Madhur Bhandarkar
- Filmfare Award for Best Director - Madhur Bhandarkar
- Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Konkona Sen Sharma
- Filmfare Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Sandhya Mridul