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The Ordinary Star
CAST & DIRECTOR
Directed by Samreen Farooqui, Shabani Hassanwalia. With Dibakar Banerjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
7.2/10
MOVIHERO ESTIMATEWHAT IT'S ABOUT
Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui is asked to study Ashok, the actual resident of the room the actor is going to inhabit for the filming of Star, Dibakar Banerjee’s short in Bombay Talkies, 2013. The fiction director, the documentary filmmakers and the actor, bit by bit, construct the lead character of Bombay Talkies, Porandar Vithal. Ashok feeds this construction through his own life. The Ordinary Star is a documentary that ponders over the nature and cost of the cinematic process, it’s invasiveness, it’s need to devour so that it can create, and the endless search to live a life less ordinary.
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7.2/10
MOVIHERO ESTIMATEYOUR WATCHLISTActor Nawazuddin Siddiqui is asked to study Ashok, the actual resident of the room the actor is going to inhabit for the filming of Star, Dibakar Banerjee’s short in B…
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Release snapshot for The Ordinary Star.
MoviHero lists October 29, 2026 as the release date for The Ordinary Star. Samreen Farooqui, Shabani Hassanwalia are the listed directors. The listed cast includes Dibakar Banerjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Release dateOctober 29, 2026
GenresDocumentary
Runtime1h 5m
DirectorsSamreen Farooqui, Shabani Hassanwalia
CastDibakar Banerjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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The Ordinary Star runs 1h 5m. Allow extra time for breaks.
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The current MoviHero pacing estimate is 5/10: a middle-ground pace.
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The attention estimate is 6/10. Expect to follow the story rather than use it as background viewing.
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The emotional-impact estimate is 4/10, suggesting a lighter emotional load. This does not tell you whether the ending is happy or sad.
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MoviHero estimate: 7.2/10. Provisional MoviHero estimate based on genre averages from 642 rated movies in our catalog. Small genre samples are pulled toward the catalog average. This is not an audience rating or a review of this movie; its eventual rating may differ substantially.
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Pacing5/10
Emotional Impact4/10
Mind-Bending2/10
Scary1/10
Violence2/10
Rewatchability5/10
Attention Required6/10
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