The Dirty Picture: Dirty but what a picture!
This film runs only on three things: Vidya Balan, Vidya Balan & Vidya Balan. It’s only her false modesty in this shamelessly dirty film that Balan calls it “entertainment, entertainment and enterinment.” And that’s the only subtlety too which this otherwise blatantly audacious film and its heroine can afford. The promos of The Dirty Picture would lead you to think it’s a pure and simple boobs trap that Milind Luthra is luring you into. But then, you forget, if it is Silk Smitha and her boobs he or anyone else is hawking, they will sell and sell like hotcakes. And if you really did not know that it is Vidya Balan who is all Silk, the experience will, well, leave you gaping with gender no bar! The Dirty Picture lives up to its carefully constructed reputation of being shamelessly, inordinately, completely and audaciously dirty. As soon as Vidya Balan lowers her cleavage to a close-up on the big screen, you know there is no scope here for the proverbial fig ...