My most basic problem with Fanaa really is that it’s so darn boring.
You know your typical Hindi films are full of such inaccuracies and liberties, but this is hardly the stuff you expect from an Aamir Khan picture which is always positioned as being more real and smarter than the rest! Whether it’s the fact that she miraculously gets her eyesight back after one random surgery, or that years later when he’s battling for life and death whose doorstep does he land up on but hers.Įven the fact that she doesn’t recognise him from his voice when she meets him years later. And then, I suppose in these times of instant coffee and instant noodles, nobody finds it strange that this couple meet, they fall in love, and they even sleep together ALL in seven days!įine, but I’m not going to overlook the fact that the film is full of all these creative liberties or freakish coincidences - call them what you may. The film’s first-half in particular is campy as hell, with Aamir spouting cheesy shayiri and the kind of one-liners that make you cringe with embarrassment. I could be wrong but I find that this attitude is completely regressive… In fact, her friends encourage her to respond to his advances, and the parents are overjoyed when she tells them she’s found a partner. So much so that nobody even blinks an eyelid when she’s being wooed passionately by an incorrigibly flirtatious tour guide. It seems almost obligatory for this blind girl to come back with a partner who will have her. Kajol’s mother Kiron Kher practically badgers her blind daughter into finding a soulmate when she leaves for the Capital. Now I’ve complained incessantly about how films like Pyare Mohan and Tom Dick And Harry are insensitive towards the handicapped, and in Fanaa, I find that the problem’s a little different, but it’s there nonetheless. The problems in Fanaa start pouring out from the very start of the film, and most of its flaws arise from its careless script and its fractured screenplay. When she does stumble upon his real identity, she must ask herself if this is really the man she’s always loved. The couple marries, but she still doesn’t know what he does for a living. Oh and yes, there’s one more hitch - he’s a terrorist and she doesn’t know it.Įventually he reveals to her that he’s the man she loved and the father of her son, and that he’s never stopped loving her. By now she’s regained her sight, she has a son from her relationship with him, but she doesn’t recognise him. Seven years later he runs into her again. They sing songs, they do some sight-seeing, they make love - and then he vanishes, convincing her that he’s dead.
Hum Tum director Kunal Kohli’s Fanaa starring Aamir Khan and Kajol is this week’s big new Bollywood release.Īt its heart, it’s a love story between a blind girl from Kashmir and a tour guide she falls for on a trip to Delhi. Alright, so it’s finally here, the film we’ve been discussing for days now and the film we’ve been eager to see for some months.