Arjun Rampal is today in a very confident space. Gone are the days when Aishwarya Rai lorded over her home production Dil Ka Rishta while Arjun had to play the sleeping partner. He ensured himself a proper place in the publicity campaign of <em>Heroine</em>.

<strong>Starring: Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda, Shahana Goswami, Ranveer Shorey, Govind Namdeo</strong> <strong>Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar</strong> <strong>Rating: ****<strong> Somewhere deep within the corroding flamboyance of filmdom there is a tale of heartbreaking compromises and immorality tucked away from the naked tearless eye. Madhur Bhandarkar nearly gets to the nerve centre of that world, and then pulls back just before he’s really gotten to the centre.

Insiders know that Madhur Bhandarkar is infatuated by the word jalwa that now seems to be the most common words in the director’s vocabulary. Having first started usage of the word in the song '<em>Fashion Ka Jalwa</em>' in the Priyanka Chopra starrer-<em>Fashion</em>, Bhandarkar has used the word in the Kareena Kapoor-starrer <em>Heroine</em>.