Fanaa is Fun Nah

Last Saturday I saw Fanaa, with my family. Too much hype was generated around this movie before its release. Aamir Khan and Kajol were all over the media, in T.V. channels and in newspapers.

Even before the movie had been released, it was unofficially banned in Gujarat and for this the film makers and Aamir Khan should be really thankful to the BJP and its youth wing. Film had got lot of publicity because of this. Who does not want free publicity. I think the people of Gujarat are lucky. They were spared the trouble to watch trash of a movie.

I just hated the movie. It is very boring movie. The first half was okay, but the second half just dragged on and on. I was glad when it finally got over. The movies are supposed to entertain us, and not to bore us. The biggest problem of Fanaa is its length. The movie has just two lead characters and the whole story revolves around them and its length is about three hours!

Most of the Yashraj Movies are longish. But they at least tell a story and had good songs. Fanaa does not have either of them. At no point of time, did I cared what happens to the lead players and as a viewer was not involved with the movie. Two of the great things. that relate viewers with the happening on the screen, emotions and comedy, were just conspicous by their total absence. What the viewers got were some cheap shayarees and bland dialogues. One shayaree `Tere Saasoons Pe Is Dil Ko Agar Panaah Mil Jayee To Yeh Jaan Tum Pe Fanna Ho Jayee' was just repeated again and again. I could not understand why. Was it just because the movie was titled as Fanaa. Another dialogue `Rehan Aap Se Jitna Piyar Karta Hai, Aap Rehan Se Itna Piyar Nahi Karte' was also repeated again and again and it was irritating just to hear this. I hope that my daughter had not pick up this dialogue and repeats it to me. What was the dialogue writer, who also happened to the Director of the movie, Kunal Kohli, thinking.

A review of the movie, as it appear in a paper is here.

Two very funny reviews by fellow bloggers are here and here.

Here are few points which irked me:

• Kajol played a blind girl in the movie whose mother's only wish seems to be that a sahzaada (prince) will come in her life and take her away. To think like that seems to be quite regressive in today's times.
  


• Aamir Khan who plays tour guide, the way he flirts with Kajol and other girls was downright disgusting.
  


• Kajol plays blind but is shown to be lead dancer at a cultural function on January 26. Actually, the blind girl was just a cinematic concept. If the Director had done away with this, and shown Kajol to be a normal girl who falls with tour-guide turned terrorist, the conflict between them would have been interesting.
  


• It rains in January in Delhi and Aamir seduces Kajol. When will the film makers stop using rain as a excuse for seducing, is it not over-used concept in the movies? And yes, she conceives immediately after, as is shown in countless Hindi movies.
  


• After interval, by which time Kajol has regained her eyesight and Aamir Khan is shown to be dead and then alive, the movie is plainly boring, and it does not seems to move forward.
  

• The viewers are now informed that Aamir is actually a terrorist fighting for Azad Kashmir and somehow he get recruited in the army and is posession of nuclear trigger. Are the verification of armymen so lax that anyone can goes in and out of it.
  


• When Kajol informs Tabu, who plays army intellegence officer, that her husband is a terrorist and she has the nuclear trigger, Kajol is told thank you, we know where you are and we will come in the morning to take the delivery. I found it very funny. Maybe the snow looks nice in the morning when the Director wanted to shoot the climax of the film.