Superstar is a 2008 Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 film directed by Rohit Jugraj, starring Kunal Khemu in a double-role, opposite Tulip Joshi

Tulip Joshi

Tulip Joshi is an Indian actress who has appeared in Bollywood.-Early life:Joshi was born in Mumbai to a Gujarati Indian father and an Armenian Lebanese mother. She was brought up in Mumbai where she attended the Jamnabai Narsee School, and later Mithibai College from where she graduated majoring...

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Premise

Superstar is based on the reality of the entertainment field. Life's essentially about choices. Kunal Mehra (Kunal Khemu) defines the youth of today - he dares. Dares to dream of making it big in Bollywood one day. Kunal wears the tag of a Bollywood struggler lightly, as he knows it is only a matter of time before he makes it into the big league. Until, that is, life decides to play a prank on him. The entry of the rich, debonair, Karan (Khemu), in Bollywood as well as his life, crushes all of Kunal's dreams. And suddenly, the struggler is transformed into a superstar. Public adulation and unwavering media attention, he receives it all. What would Kunal choose at the moment of reckoning? Truth or Dare?

Cast

• Kunal Khemu as Kunal Mehra / Karan Saxena
• Tulip Joshi
  Tulip Joshi
  Tulip Joshi is an Indian actress who has appeared in Bollywood.-Early life:Joshi was born in Mumbai to a Gujarati Indian father and an Armenian Lebanese mother. She was brought up in Mumbai where she attended the Jamnabai Narsee School, and later Mithibai College from where she graduated majoring...
  
   as Mausam
• Aushima Sawhney as Barkha
• Reema Lagoo
  Reema Lagoo
  Reema Lagoo is an Indian actress who has appeared in numerous Marathi as well as Hindi films and television shows. She also has had a presence on Marathi stage for nearly four decades.- Career :...
  
   as Kusum Mehra
• Darshan Jariwala
  Darshan Jariwala
  Darshan Jariwala is a Gujarati film, television and stage actor. He won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for Gandhi, My Father. He currently stars in the show Saas Bina Sasural which airs on Sony TV as Chhedilal Chaturvedi...
  
   as Mr. Saxena
• Kishori Shahane
  Kishori Shahane
  Kishori Shahane is an eminent classical and folk dancer and actress in the Marathi language film industry of India. She is married to Hindi filmmaker Deepak Balraj Vij...
  
   as Mrs. Saxena
• Sharat Saxena
  Sharat Saxena
  Sharat Saxena is an Indian actor working in Bollywood films. He has acted in nearly 160 Bollywood films.Saxena started his career in the early 70s and has mainly played either supporting roles of a father, uncle or villainous roles....
  
   as Purabi Abhiram Mehra
• Vrajesh Hirjee
  Vrajesh Hirjee
  Vrajesh Hirjee is a prominent Gujarati actor who is also well known for his comic roles in Hindi movies. Vrajesh was born in 1977.He has acted in over 40 Gujarati plays.He has since then done a number of successful movies like Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein, Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai, Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai,...
  
   as Mishra
• Zafar Karachiwala as Prashant
• Aman Verma
  Aman Verma
  Aman Yatan Verma is a TV show anchor and an actor. He co-hosted with Mini Mathur in the first season of Indian Idol on Sony Entertainment Television and hosted Zee TV's Zee Cinestars.-Career:...
  
  
• Anjan Srivastav
  Anjan Srivastav
  Anjan Srivatsav is an Indian film, television and stage actor, associated with Indian People's Theatre Association in Mumbai of which he remained Vice-President for several years...
  
   as Sharmaji
• Sanjay Dutt
  Sanjay Dutt
  Sanjay Dutt is an Indian Hindi film actor and politician. Dutt, son of Hindi film actors Sunil and Nargis Dutt, made his acting debut in 1981.-Personal life:...
  
   in an Special Appearance as Himself

Critical

The film opened to mixed reviews, mostly negative. Taran Adarsh

Taran Adarsh

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 from Bollywood Hungama

Bollywood Hungama

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 rated it 2/5, and said "On the whole, Superstar doesn't catch on."

Box office

It earned 6 crores on its opening weekend. After two weeks of running in theaters, it grossed 13 crores all together, and was elevated to a flop status by Box office India.

External links

• Superstar at the Internet Movie Database
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