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'Fanaa,' a Film About Love and Terrorists

By Nathan Lee

• May 27, 2006

The epic Bollywood extravaganza "Fanaa" goes so far over the top that it reinvents itself halfway and launches on a brand new trajectory of the absurd. We begin in the provinces, where a beautiful blind girl, Zooni (Kajol), is pitied for her lack of a husband. On arriving in Delhi to perform a spectacular song-and-dance number for the annual Independence Day celebration, she falls in love with Rehan, a smarmy, over-accessorized tour guide (Aamir Khan).

Their insipid romance is fortified by exchanges of poetry, impromptu musical numbers and frolics through metropolitan splendor, all of which is undermined by an ugliness of spirit that allows for a delightful woman to fall (empty) head over (obedient) heels for a repugnant leading man. Credit the director, Kunal Kohli, for the old-fashioned simplicity of his storytelling, if not for his primitive sexual politics.

Yet just when "Fanaa" threatens to drown you in a candy-colored sea of saccharin — this being the moment when Zooni checks into the hospital for a miraculous retina replacement — the narrative springs its trap. Next thing you know it's Kashmiri militants blowing up helicopters, gunfights on snowmobiles, double crosses, decoded messages and people thrown off cliffs. Hooray for Bollywood!

The Zooni-Rehan affair fails to parse as anything but a maudlin genre construct, but once they're reconfigured in the second half of this very long film, the idea of their relationship is clarified. "Fanaa" ends up a surprisingly tough-minded dramatization of an antiromantic thesis.

"To choose between right and wrong is simple," Zooni's mother had cautioned, "but what defines life is the decision between the greater of two goods or the lesser of two evils."

"Fanaa" mines this conceit with an operatic extravagance — and a body count — that the Korean pulpmeister Park Chan Wook would envy.

Opened yesterday nationwide.

Directed by Kunal Kohli; written (in Hindi, with English subtitles) by Shibani Bathija; director of photography, Ravi K. Chandran; edited by Ritish Soni; music by Jatin-Lalit, with lyrics by Prasoon Joshi; choreography by Saroj Khan and Vaibhavi Merchant; art director, Nitish Roy; produced by Aditya Chopra; released by Yash Raj Films. Running time: 169 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: Kajol (Zooni Ali Beg) and Aamir Khan (Rehan Qadri).

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A sweet blind girl Zooni meets a flirty Rehan. She ignores her friends' warnings. It's her time to discover life. Is she making the right love choice? A sweet blind girl Zooni meets a flirty Rehan. She ignores her friends' warnings. It's her time to discover life. Is she making the right love choice? A sweet blind girl Zooni meets a flirty Rehan. She ignores her friends' warnings. It's her time to discover life. Is she making the right love choice?

• Kunal Kohli
• Shibani Bathija
• Rishi Kapoor
• 147 User reviews
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• 10 wins & 11 nominations

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• Rehan Qadri

• Zooni Ali Beg

• Zulfikar Ali Beg

• Dr. Malini Tyagi

• Nafisa Ali Beg

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• Helen - Zooni's Instructor

• Susheel Rawat

• Naana - Rehan's maternal grandpa

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• Trivia Director Kunal Kohli sent Aamir Khan and Kajol a draft of the script, hoping they would agree with each other. His plan backfired: each of them sent revised versions of the script, with their own little adjustments, which included more depth and flesh to their own characters and less to the others.
• Goofs Rihan and Zooni meet in New Delhi on the occasion of Republic Day (26th January), but in all the scenes the people wear summer clothes. January in Delhi is very cold.

Rehan Qadri : Oh, you're blind.

Zooni Ali Beg : Yes, you didn't see that? Are you blind too?

Rehan Qadri : Thank God, I'm not.

Zooni Ali Beg : That's a nice thing to say to a blind person.

Rehan Qadri : If I was blind, I couldn't have seen the most beautiful thing in the world: you. "Your beauty made God make a mistake, what more can I say? So that you don't cast an evil eye on yourself, he took your eyes away."

• Connections Featured in 52nd Filmfare Awards (2007)
• Soundtracks Chand Sifarish Written by Prasoon Joshi Composed by Jatin Pandit and Lalit Pandit Performed by Shaan and Kailash Kher Courtesy of Yash Raj Music

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• May 29, 2006
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• May 26, 2006 (India)
• Destroyed in Love
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• $5,300,000 (estimated)
• May 28, 2006
• $22,181,516
• Runtime 2 hours 48 minutes
• Dolby Digital

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Fanaa ( U/A ) 26/May/2006 2h 49min

Critics: 4 Panel: 0 User: 29

Overall: 1.5 from 33 users

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Director : Kunal Kohli

Music Director : Jatin-lalit

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Aamir isn't dil se enough.

The actors do quite well, for the most part. Kajol isn't given too much to do, but she's the one who infuses a spirit into the film. Aamir performs manfully, but the script requires him to lay the histrionics on thick, and he obliges. The flaws lie in the words, and the man wielding the megaphone. (more)

Source: Raja Sen, Rediff.com

Unfamiliar Turf

Kajol looks utterly ravishing and Aamir Khan as the shahzada-turned-shaitan is note perfect. The secondary characters, fine actors like Rishi Kapoor and Tabu, look like intruders. Bravo Bollywood. For so long denied the chance to exploit Kashmir's beauty, it has succeeded in exploiting its unending ... (more)

Source: Kaveree Bamzai, India Today

Forget the controversies surrounding the film, go for it

The film may not be a chatpata entertainer but there is an elegant charm and a straight-from-the-heart feel which makes it worth a dekko. Just don't go looking for fun and faltu timepass. (more)

Source: Nikhat Kazmi, Times Of India

The film works on every level: script, music, visuals, technique and yes, the performances.

FANAA is a beautifully written, effectively acted and meticulously crafted effort that is likely to remind many viewers of a simple axiom: A movie doesn't have to be groundbreaking to be compelling. (more)

Source: Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama

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