Clash of the Divas

Mark your calenders people. October 29^th is going to be the clash of the divas. Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion and Sanjay Khandelwal’s The World of Fashion are both slated to release on the same date.

This is even bigger than July 4^th when Aamir Khan and Harry Baweja released Jaane tu and Lovestory 2050 together. Here both the movies are based on the same topic: the Indian fashion industry. In one corner we have Madhur Bhandarkar backed by his somewhat successful films, Page 3 and Corporate. And in the other corner we have Sanjay Khandelwal whose family business is film distribution.

While Madhur’s movie follows Priyanka Chopra’s (a small town girl) character’s rise to supermodel status, Sanjay Khandelwal’s movie traces the journey of a small town designer who comes to Mumbai to make it big. The cast of Fashion is relatively well known, Priyanka and Kangana are household names and Mugdha is an established model. The World of Fashion features newcomers Amrita Prakash, Priti Soni, Reema Ramchandani, Meghana Govil and one TV actor Ejaz Khan.

It’s just stupid of Sanjay Khandelwal to assume he’ll come out of this alive. An established director with a well known attractive cast wins over a family in film distribution.