Shakeela

As we know actress in this flim not good only such B grade type flim, but very disappointed from pankaj sir, actor like him not accept such type of movies

What a poor presentation on shakeela actually it was a insult to her after she being fighting in her real life

it is created like a C grade film poor acting poor direction everything else was very poor

Tripathiji still steals the show the only positive thing in this movie

Very poor

Shakeela is the biopic of 90's star Shakeela. Much similar to the Vidya Balan's starrer The Dirty Picture. Shakeela story is something audience should see and there is so much to tell but here due to very poor screenplay and writing we get a half baked story.

Indrajit Lankesh direction can be termed as pretty average and sometimes poor. The strong part of The Dirty Picture was the story and direction but here both are missing.

Richa Chadha as Shakeela tries to do her job and delivers a decent performance but leaves a lot to be desired. Pankaj Tripathi is fine and pretty average, doesn't leave any strong impression.

Overall due to direction and writing, Shakeela is a forgettable movie.

Not worth to watch, worst movie. Waste of telent like pankaj tripathi

Shakeela review :

Not many may know that Shakeela was a Southern sex siren of late 90s and early 2000s and her Malayalam films became such rage that their badly dubbed Hindi versions made it to the matinee shows of Mumbai single screens. This film is a purported biopic on this actor though it seems to be heavily inspired from Vidya Balan's super hit 'The Dirty Picture' (2011) which itself was a biopic on another soft porn star Silk Smitha.

Interestingly, the character Silk has a small presence in this film and it is only after her suicide that Shakeela's fortune changes. Pushed in to the soft porn industry by her greedy mother, Shakeela's rise to the top and her subsequent fall is chronicled in the film though it is nowhere as convincing and exciting as the Vidya Balan film.

Richa Chadda, in the titular role, is not bad but she doesnt resemble the real life Shakeela at all. There is no transformation in terms of accent and body language; something Balan could achieve fantastically in The Dirty Picture. Pankaj Tripathi playing superstar Salim is absolutely bland. As for the other supporting cast, the less said the better.

Shakeela is not a kind of film worth risking the theatres for. You may try it out once it premieres online.

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.