Fanaa

Aamir is brilliant. Kajol looks stunning. The storyline wants you to suspend your disbelief an hour too long. Pretty much sums up the movie. This 3 hour saga left me confounded at the kind of stories and sentiments dished out by bollywood. Sadly, the songs cant save the movie either. The only good number is within the first hour and not when I needed it the most. A leitmotif runs throughout the movie - good, but overused and got to my nerves. And watch out for the scene with a desi version of the MI3 score. The movie starts out on a fun note and has the quintessential love at first "sight" scenes. And there is some skepticism about the hero's devotion and commitment - not in the girl's mind but in her friends'. Some of the scenes are particularly entertaining and most of them have a repartees in shayris. All that remains now is for the girl and boy to get married and remain happily ever after. But, no. Life, as they say, is full of surprises.

Awful is not sufficient to describe how disgusting this movie is. Before Rang De.., I used to be a huge fan of Aamir Khan. RDB showed glimpse that Aamir is off the hooks and looking to become like Shahrukh Khan. After seeing Fanaa, I've lost everything I had for him. Soon I expect is to see Aamir getting paid for dancing in marriage parties. Now Bollywood is becoming obsessed about portraying Dumbs, Deafs and Blinds as central character and then showing them falling in love and shaking butts around the trees. Bottomline, It's simply Karan-Aaditya Chopra-Suraj Barjatya-Shahrukh khan stuff, Kunal Kohli is no new god.

It tickled me no end to read some viewers comment that a Kashmiri Muslim girl fell in love and allowed a man to bed her in a span of 8 days romance. They thought it slightly implausible. This might have held true for some two decades back but not nowadays. We have to understand Zooni (Kajol) came from a fairly modern family (she was no village bumpkin) in the movie and the apple of her parents eye. More so because she was blind and her mother always encouraged her to look forward to her Prince Charming the day he arrived. She was this inexperienced girl full of ideas of romance and blind to boot and Aamirs winsome voice and poetry won her over and she just went into the relationship headstrong girl that she was knowing and accepting that there might never be anything permanent (she just wanted to live for those 8 days she was able to be romanced by the person she was besotted with) a very common occurrence actually in todays scenario. The story of a man torn between love and duty might be hackneyed but I sure as hell didn't know how it was all going to end and was eager to sit through the whole film and watch it to the very end. I don't know how some people thought the first 90 minutes was horrible and the rest even more so! I found the first half extremely entertaining and the second half was a pleasure to watch just for the sheer pleasure of watching two very high class actors perform as they never have. Kunal Kohli is an extremely sensitive director and while there may have been slip ups in pace here and there (it was an emotional rather than an action packed movie after all) on the whole the movie shows a director of competence and someone who has a very bright future. The cinematography is breathtaking and the supporting cast of Rishi Kapoor and Tabu adds to the movies worth. Rishi especially is brilliant. But the movies strongest point is the performance of the two lead actors especially Kajol who had the more author backed role. Kajol and Aamirs chemistry leave you wondering WHY they never acted together before. And they look so good its hard to imagine Kajols a mom and Aamir a divorced dad of two.

I watched this movie last night and was quite thrilled with it. Aamir Khan and Kajol were both at their best. One of the other comments already has the story told so I would not tell what happens in the movie, but I will tell this much that most of the Bollywood movies that I get to watch are filled with flaws and stupidities, but this movie by far exceeds my expectation. The movies has a very humorous start, however, the ending is quite sad, but that was meant to be by the title of the movie "Fanaa". The music was quite different and very enchanting. The supporting actors/actresses (rishi kapoor, Haji Ali) did very good in the movie. Overall, the movie is excellent and worth watching, Bollywood does not produce such movies that often.