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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|2005 film by Madhur Bhandarkar}}<br />
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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Page 3<br />
| image = Page 3 poster.jpg<br />
| caption = Theatrical release poster<br />
| director = Madhur Bhandarkar, Jay Dev Banerjee<br />
| producer = Bobby Pushkarna<br>Kavita Pushkarna<br />
| screenplay = [[Manoj Tyagi]]<br>Nina Arora<br />
| starring = [[Konkona Sen Sharma]]<br>[[Atul Kulkarni]]<br>[[Boman Irani]]<br />
| music = '''Songs:'''<br>Virgin Emi<br>Samir Tandon<br>'''Background Score:<br>[[Raju Singh]]<br />
| cinematography = Madhu Rao<br />
| editing = Suresh Pai<br />
| distributor = Lighthouse Films Pvt. Ltd.<br>[[Sahara One Motion Pictures]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2005|01|21}}<br />
| runtime = 139 minutes<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| country = India<br />
}}<br />
'''''Page 3''''' is a 2005 Indian [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[Madhur Bhandarkar]] and produced by Bobby Pushkarna and Kavita Pushkarna about the [[Page 3 culture]] and media in the city of Mumbai. It stars [[Konkona Sen Sharma]], [[Atul Kulkarni]], [[Sandhya Mridul]], [[Tara Sharma]], [[Anju Mahendru]], and [[Boman Irani]]. The film won three [[National Film Awards]], including the Golden Lotus Award for [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Film]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Madhavi Sharma ([[Konkona Sen Sharma]]) is a young journalist, who arrives in [[Mumbai]] looking for a job. She is hired by newspaper editor Deepak Suri ([[Boman Irani]]), and is assigned the task of reporting on celebrity news, writing articles for [[Page 3 culture|Page 3]]. Her roommate Pearl Sequiera ([[Sandhya Mridul]]) is an air hostess who aims to marry a rich man so that she can have a lavish, exciting lifestyle. Gayatri Sachdeva ([[Tara Sharma]]), an aspiring actress, later joins them at the apartment. Gayatri becomes romantically involved with a leading actor, Rohit Kumar (Bikram Saluja), and soon finds out that she is [[pregnancy|pregnant]] . Rohit is aware that the [[pregnancy]] will ruin his career so he tells her to get an [[abortion]] . Depressed and shattered, Gayarti unsuccessfully tries to commit suicide and, in the process, [[miscarriage|loses her child]] . Meanwhile, Pearl marries a wealthy old man and moves to the [[United States]], where she lives an extravagant but loveless life. Madhavi plans to expose Rohit by writing an article on his relationship with Gayatri, but her editor blocks the story, and she is forced to apologize to Rohit.<br />
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Madhavi finds out that her boyfriend is bisexual, when she finds him in bed with her best friend, Abhijeet (Rehaan Engineer). Soon, Madhavi becomes disillusioned with her job, and she realises that 'the party is over' for her - the celebrity lifestyle is not as glamorous as it seems. She requests to be moved to a different field, and lands on the "crime beat" with Vinayak Mane (Atul Kulkarni). She accompanies Vinayak as they search the city for crime related stories. On one such trip, they witness a bomb blast in the city, which affects Madhavi emotionally. She begins to investigate the story, but is made to cover a high-profile Bollywood party by Deepak. At the party, she comes across the ACP in charge of the bomb blast she witnessed, insensitively discussing the incident. Madhavi is shocked to find out that the ACP was attending a film shoot while he was on duty, which delayed his reaction to the blast.<br />
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Vinayak goes to cover another news story in Nashik, Madhavi is asked to take charge of crime news. She learns that a number of boys from a rehabilitation home owned by Anjali Thapar have gone missing, and during the subsequent search, a number of boys could not be accounted for. The police find out that a group of boys are being held at the Thapar's private bungalow in Mud Island; but they do not have a search warrant. However, based on Madhavi's investigation, they conduct a raid. It is revealed that Ramesh Thapar has been [[sexual assault|molesting]] children from the rehabilitation home. Ramesh is arrested and police also find a connection to other corporate personalities who are involved in the scandal. Madhavi manages to capture the whole event on camera, and develops a breaking exposé story. She asks Deepak to run the story as the headline article for the next day's news edition, and he promises to look into the piece and put it on the front page. However, that same night Deepak meets with the owner of the newspaper, Mr Agarwal, who is the best friend of Ramesh. Agarwal tells Deepak that the newspaper receives major advertisement revenue and other sponsorship from Ramesh. Fearing major loss to his business, Agarwal declines to publish the story, and asks Deepak to fire Madhavi from the company.<br />
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Meanwhile, Gayatri, who supposedly turned her back on Bollywood and went back to Delhi, returns to Mumbai. In order to make a name for herself, she sleeps with a film director and gets cast in his next movie. Madhavi, who eventually gets a job as a Page 3 writer for another newspaper, realises that in the elite and extravagant lives of politicians, businessmen, film stars and socialites, there is no place for trust and honour.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
*[[Konkona Sen Sharma]] as Madhavi Sharma<br />
*[[Atul Kulkarni]] as Vinayak Mane<br />
*[[Sandhya Mridul]] as Pearl Sequeira<br />
*[[Tara Sharma]] as Gayatri Sachdeva<br />
*[[Anju Mahendru]] as Ritu Bajaj<br />
*[[Boman Irani]] as Deepak Suri<br />
*[[Bikram Saluja]] as Rohit Kumar<br />
*[[Nassar Abdullah]] as Romesh Thapar, Industrialist<br />
*[[Rehaan Engineer]] as Abhijeet Patnaik<br />
*[[Soni Razdan]] as Anjali Thapar, Romesh's wife<br />
*[[Kunika Lal]] as Monaz Modi<br />
*[[Kurush Deboo]] as Hiren Sanghvi<br />
*[[Madan Jain]] as ACP Uday Yadav<br />
*[[Bobby Darling]] as Fashion Designer Zulfi Khan<br />
*[[Manoj Joshi (actor)|Manoj Joshi]] as Bosco, Chauffeur<br />
*[[Suhasini Mulay]] as Pratima Bhave<br />
*[[Maya Alagh]] as Pushpa Bhargav<br />
*[[Upendra Limaye]] as Inspector Arun Bhonsle<br />
*[[Dolly Thakore]] as Vijaya Agarwal, wife of [[Pramod Agarwal]]<br />
*[[Yusuf Hasan]] as Pramod Agarwal, chairman of Agarwal Publications<br />
*[[Suchitra Pillai]] as Fashion Designer Sonal Roy<br />
*[[Darshan Jariwala]] as Mr.Tejani<br />
*[[Navni Parihar]] as Sheetal Tejani<br />
*[[Kishen Mulchandani]] as Page 3 Socialite in guest appearance<br />
*[[Mukesh Tyagi]] as Member of Parliament<br />
*[[Jai Kalra]] as Tarun Sanyal<br />
*[[Pradeep Velankar]] as Film Maker Charu Mohanty<br />
*[[Parmita Katkar]] as Dancer (in the song ''Kuwa Maa'') in guest appearance<br />
*[[Gopal K Singh]] as Gomes, Drug Supplier<br />
*[[Hansa Singh]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Nirjan Asrani]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Amir Merchant]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Samir Modi]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Anjana Kuthiala]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Priti Pundeer]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Shubra Sharma]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Bikramjeet Kanwarpal|Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Abhijeet Lahiri]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Tony Singh (director)|Tony Singh]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Madan Joshi]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*Yusuf Hussain as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Pradeep Milankar]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[Sangeeta Singh]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*[[R Julka]] as Page 3 socialite<br />
*Palak shukla as Fauziya (Journalist)<br />
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==Music==<br />
#"Filmi Very Filmi" - [[Amit Kumar (singer)|Amit Kumar]], [[Blaaze]], [[Tannishtha Chatterjee]]<br />
#"Huzoor-E-Aala" - [[Asha Bhosle]], [[Abhijeet Bhattacharya|Abhijeet]]<br />
#"Jhoot Boliyan" - [[Shabab Sabri]]<br />
#"Kitne Ajeeb (Sad)" - [[Lata Mangeshkar]]<br />
#"Kitne Ajeeb Rishte Hain (Female)" - Lata Mangeshkar<br />
#"Kitne Ajeeb Rishte Hain (Male)" - [[Suresh Wadkar]]<br />
#"Kuan Ma" - [[Sapna Awasthi]], Blaaze<br />
#"Lets Dance" - [[David Bowie]]<br />
#"Mera Wajood (Female)" - [[Sadhana Sargam]]<br />
#"Mera Wajood (Male)" - [[Adnan Sami]]<br />
#"[[Red Blooded Woman]]" - [[Kylie Minogue]]<br />
#"Yahaan Zindagi" - Shabab Sabri, [[Shaan (singer)|Shaan]], [[Sagarika Mukherjee]]<br />
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==Box office==<br />
The film opened to average opening but with positive word of mouth and raving reviews, it went on to do good business later and emerged a semi hit.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}<br />
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==Awards==<br />
The film has won the following awards since its release:<br />
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'''2005 [[National Film Awards]] ([[India]])'''<br />
* Golden Lotus Award - [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Film]] - Bobby Pushkarna and Kavita Pushkarna<br />
* Silver Lotus Award - [[National Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] - Nina Arora, Manoj Tyagi<br />
* Silver Lotus Award - [[National Film Award for Best Editing|Best Editing]] - Suresh Pai<br />
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'''2005 [[Zee Cine Awards]] ([[India]])'''<br />
* [[Zee Cine Award Best Female Debut|Best Female Debut]] - Konkona Sen Sharma<br />
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==Nominations==<br />
*[[Filmfare Award for Best Film]] - Bobby Pushkarna and Kavita Pushkarna<br />
*[[Filmfare Award for Best Director]] - Madhur Bhandarkar<br />
*[[Filmfare Award for Best Actress]] - Konkona Sen Sharma<br />
*[[Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award]] - Sandhya Mridul<br />
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==Death of Amit Ralli==<br />
During principal photography, lead actor Amit Ralli died suddenly from [[jaundice]] due to [[hepatitis C]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nowrunning.com/news/news.aspx?it=612|title=Death of young actor Amit Ralli shocks the film unit|last=Indo-Asian News Service|author-link=Indo-Asian News Service|date=15 May 2004|publisher=nowrunning.com|access-date=3 May 2012}}</ref> He was 26 at the time. He was replaced by [[Jai Kalra]] who made his Bollywood debut with this film.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Page 3 culture]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0443708|Page 3}}<br />
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{{Madhur Bhandarkar}}<br />
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