Fashion is all about women. An industry where most of the movies are male dominated, finding a film where ladies give astonishing performances and not being just eye-candies is a rare occasion. Under the inventive hands of National Award winning director, Madhur Bhandarkar, who is the master-mind behind films like Page 3 and Corporate, Fashion comes out and hits you hard with the amount of realism it has.

Fashion begins in Chandigarh, where aspiring model Meghna Mathur (Priyanka) expresses her desire to go to Mumbai to her parents. While her dad (Raj Babbar) out rightly denies her permission, her mom (Kiran Juneja) is helpful. Against her dad’s wishes, Meghna leaves her house with dreams in her eyes to strike it big in the modeling world. But it is not a path of roses for her as she experiences some major difficulties in her initial days in Mumbai. But she gets a good helping hand with an old friend, Rohit (Ashwin Mushran) an aspiring designer who assists big shot designer Rahul Arora (Sameer Soni). She keeps bumping into another struggling model, Maanav (Arjan) while making the rounds of modeling agencies for auditions. Meghna becomes good friends with Maanav and even starts sharing his apartment after she faces accommodation problems. Meghna gets noticed by India’s top modeling agency Panache’s top official, Anisha Roy (Kitu) who brings her to Panache boss, Abhijit Sareen’s (Arbaaz) notice. Abhijit gets impressed by her ambitious nature and go getter attitude. Panache’s face is Shonali (Kangana) but though very successful, her drug habit starts becoming a problem for her and subsequently for Panache. Abhijit decides to terminate Shonali’s contract and ropes in Meghna in her place. Soon, Meghna is everywhere – right from being the showstopper at the biggest fashion shows in town to fashion magazine covers to print ads to TV commercials. The overnight success spoils Meghna and the budding love relationship between her and Maanav also comes to an abrupt end. What happens after Meghna reaches the pinnacle of success in the modeling world and how her journey also invariably leads to the downfall of Shonali and what shocking things further await Meghna forms the rest of the movie.

From casting couch to models taking drugs, from wardrobe malfunction to tremulous relationships, Fashion has everything expect the gay kiss scene which Madhur cut out.

The screenplay by Madhur, Anuradha Tiwari and Ajay Monga peeks deep into the actuality of the fashion world and touches every single facet of the industry such as casting couch, gay designers, wild lifestyle of models who can’t handle success, backstage dramas during major fashion shows, manipulative head honchos and attitude problems of successful people.

In fact one wouldn’t be surprised if Madhur manages to win a National Award with this movie as well! Also, perhaps for the first time his climax is not dark where the hero ends up being a loser! The movie has a bittersweet ending.

Priyanka in the most challenging roles of her career delivers the goods successfully. Kangana in spite of a short role ends up giving an award worthy performance. Even though it is her introduction film, Mugdha Godse shows great confidence. Arbaaz Khan is good and so is Sameer Soni. Arjan Bajwa acts fine. Kitu Gidwani is graceful whereas Ashwin Mushran is very like able.
Fashion is a must watch film if you want to know about secret of Fashion Industry.