Miss Lovely

Films like these provide an eye opening reality to college students, especially those pursuing Media related courses in colleges. I would love it if the makers offered us an opportunity to perform a case study on every aspect of this film. Being a film student myself, I always knew of Ashim Ahluwalia. However this film has given me a chance to understand why he is an idol to many aspirants like me. The film is brave, crazy and goes against the tide. This sends out a strong message to all those who are clueless about the importance of emotions and humanity in an era where money has an edge over anything and everything. I for one am really happy that a film like Miss Lovely can be made and released. It offers hope to a lot of film students and younger filmmakers that something else other than the usual masala fare is possible.

A lot better than any other genre of this movie. If you can portray so much reality in a movie, then the movie maker is really outstanding. Reality in looks, in language, in expressions, in problems and their solutions. Reality can be more felt when someone is really from these regions of the world.

The kind of tension and awkwardness that is shown can be generally felt in these regions.

Most importantly I liked the posters of the film. They are like I am seeing the covers of 60s and 70s...

I was first alerted of this movie by the sheer waves it was making in the Cannes Film Festival, and for the very obvious reason that it featured the hugely talented maverick director, Ashim Ahluwalia, but after they won the award i was not surprised with the results.

I saw this film at the Toronto Film Festival 2012 and was left speechless - this is a really hard-hitting, pulpy, gritty and rather radical take on the underground sleaze film industry in India in the 1980s. Like Sam Fuller & Dario Argento got together to remake an underground Bollywood film - and that doesn't even close to describing it. It vacillates between unscripted documentary and pulp thriller, creating a new hybrid style that is unlike anything I've seen before. If you're a fan of hard-boiled cinema with an experimental twist, I would strongly recommend this film. Beautifully photographed in classic cinema-scope with a mix of vintage film stocks. exceptional.

Bollywood very proudly flaunts badges like mindless entertainment, leave your brains behind comedy, potboiler, masala entertainer etc. The award winning success of these films proves that there exists a larger population of people who step into the theater to consume these films and most of them find it real too.

This is a master piece. I call this new age cinema. Those who are getting bored of Yashraj and KJ movies, will definitely like Miss Lovely.

It would suffice to say that Miss Lovely is a film which is in a class of its own by such a far distance from its peers from the same house, that, by the sheer fact of its existence, it manages to add a chapter to the history of that very house.

The character building is magnificent, which lets one flow with the story without any jarring effects.The distinct flavour of each new element and the twists introduced thereby make it worth the trouble of tracking the complex plot.

a throwback to the days when love in the movies involved the mind as well as the heart. this film is such a truly unique mix of something that feels really old-fashioned (noir, classical love triangle, brotherly domestic drama) and yet extremely visionary and modern, almost postmodern. unique filmmaking from a director to watch.. i saw it at the Sitges festival in Spain. this forms an interesting double bill with a film i also recently saw - Peter Strikland's Berberian Sound Studio, set in the heyday of 1970s Italian horror cinema - although miss lovely makes berberian look like lite family entertainment in comparison!

In terms of comparisons - almost everyone has been invoked to try and describe miss lovely - PT Anderson (no, it's not boogie nights), twitchfilm even mentions that miss lovely is reminiscent of The Day of the Locust (perhaps - more the novel than the film), and mentions Brian de Palma. not quite. I've seen comparisons with Dario Argento, Von Stroheim.. What's interesting is that it's almost impossible to compare this movie with anything else in cinema - that's what makes it so unique and electrifying for me personally. It's just wholly individual and special. recommended!