Bollywood Diaries

The movie struggled in the same way as the struggling actors. It has the right idea, the right amount of heart, but misses the main punch of storytelling. Overall, it's a decent effort which is definitely watchable.

Storyline Rating: 3

Acting Rating: 3 Raima Sen: 3 Ashish Vidyarthi: 3 Salim Diwan: 2 Karuna Pandey: 3 Vineet Kumar Singh: 3

Direction Rating: 3

Music Rating: 2

Cinematography: 2

Editing: 2

Three stories - An average call centre working guy who absolutely passionate about acting but is not born with skills or taking any professional training to act, a 50 year old government servant who was a theatre artist in his college days but locks his dreams in a box and give the keys firstly to his father then to his wife(like all humans do) but his wife promises him to return it after their daughter gets married,he is skillful but not passionate enough to go for his dreams. Third story is about a prostitute who only entertains customers from Mumbai in the hope of getting a jack to get entrance in Bollywood as an actress, she is talented as well as passionate but not privileged. Story shows how passion or talent alone can not sail through this ocean of struggles and reach the success shore but they have also shown how passion and talent together can always atleast hope to dream again even after failing miserably. A must watch movie.

This is one of those movies that takes you to another dimension. Surrealistic storyline. Ashish Vidyarthi delivers his life's best performance IMHO. Raima, Salim and the guy who plays Assist. Director have acted really really well. All in all a very well directed movie. Lyrics of all the songs are awesome. Sometimes there is comedy in the tragedy, specially with Ashish Vidyarthi's and Salim's character. Worth watching for the story alone. I am sure there are characters like these in real life and everyone will connect with this movie at some level. You will have various emotions for the characters - sometimes you feel annoyed by them, sometimes hate them, other times love them or even feel sad for them. This movie is a must watch. BEST BOLLYWOOD MANTRA - " Om mumbai bollywood staray namah!"

This film is dedicated to all the struggling wanna-be actors who have a deep passion for films. These are ordinary people from all kinds of background, whose only dream is to be given a chance to prove themselves and to make it big in the film industry. Their love for acting makes them invest all their savings, jeopardize their health and even dedicate their last moments alive to the pursuit their dream. Sadly, talent and good looks are not the only requirements to become a famous. In reality, films are a business and the only way to be part of them is to either be an already successful actor or to be born into a family connected to the film industry.

Hats off to Salim Diwan who plays Rohit. He did an excellent job portraying a young lad passionate about film, but with poor acting skills. In the end though, Salim gave a true performance! The end of the film is a wonderful build-up of emotions and the music is beyond perfect.

Bollywood Diaries deserves a 10 stars rating for its honesty in this film tribute to struggling actors trying to make themselves noticed.

Three stories around Bollywood dream ,Story shows how passion or talent alone can not sail through this ocean of struggles and reach the success shore but they have also shown how passion and talent together can always atleast hope to dream again even after failing miserably. A must watch movie.