Based on actual events, the film tells the story of an innocent girl named Jigyaasa Mathur (Hrishitaa Bhatt) who comes from a middle-class family, the daughter of a school teacher named Malini Mathur (Varsha Usgaonkar). Malini is a woman with principles and emotions. Jigyaasa wants to become a film actress and her mother has no objections about it. But Jigyaasa has some other plans. Jigyaasa will go to any limits to reach her goal. Within a timespan of five years, Jigyaasa reaches the top and becomes India's highest paid superstar.

• Hrishitaa Bhatt as Jigyaasa Mathur
• Varsha Usgaonkar as Malini Mathur
• Kader Khan as Nand Kishore
• Milind Gunaji as Subhash Desai
• Vikas Kalantri as Avinash Chopra
• Jaya Bhattacharya as Neha Sharma
• Mukesh Tiwari a Ksamaal Hussain
• Rakesh Bedi as Ashok Kumar Shaayar (the gay activist)
• Anupam Shyam as Haider Bhai

The film was unofficially remade in 2014 in Marathi titled Nati which means Actress. However some scenes and dramatization were changed to avoid any legal hassles.

The Lesbian interaction and kiss between Hrishitaa Bhatt and her co-actor in the film's scene was mentioned in an article from Spotboye.com by writer Chetna Kapoor as The Hottest Lesbian And Gay Kisses in Bollywood.^[4] Box Office Collection marked Jigyaasa and Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine as better made films till date with Bollywood used as a backdrop.^[5]