Jigyaasa - stardom has its price

Director: Faisal Saif
Producer: Raju chand
Starring: Hrishita Bhatt, Varsha Usgaonkar, Mukesh Tiwari, Milind Gunaji and Nassar Abdulla
Release Date: February 10, 2006

Jigyaasa is a story of an innocent girl who wants to make it big in Bollywood at any given cost. She achieves her goal by making several compromises in life and eventually becomes a superstar only to realize in the end the cost she had to pay for it. The film is inspired by real incidents and portray that achieving success in Bollywood is not an easy job but success achieved through compromises does not last long.

Jigyaasa Mathur (Hrishita Bhatt) comes from a respectable middle class family. She is daughter of a school teacher Malini Mathur (Varsha Usgaonkar) with values and principles. She was innocent yet dreamt that she had it in her to make it to the top. But she didn’t want to be on of those thousands of girls who formed a major part of the percentage who go back to their homes dejected, disappointed, and unsuccessful.

Soon she realized that giving her body is the easy way to become an actress. She goes ahead against her values and teachings and her career takes a big leap. She starts believing that talent is nothing and everything can be earned by giving body. She became what she wanted to be - a Superstar! But in course of her journey towards stardom, she met many distinct people who showed her the sleazier, the uglier and the horrific side of name, fame and glory. Want to hear the journey of a girl her own words, from nowhere to superstardom, from a simpleton to an opportunistic, her experiences that ranged from sex, drugs, betrayal, dirty gossips, film politics, molestation to homosexuality?