Starcast: Aamir Khan, Kajol, Rishi Kapoor, Kirron Kher, Tabu, Sharat Saxena with Lara Dutta and Shiney Ahuja in guest appearance. Director: ...
Starcast:
Aamir Khan, Kajol, Rishi Kapoor, Kirron Kher, Tabu, Sharat Saxena with Lara
Dutta and Shiney Ahuja in guest appearance.
Director:
Kunal Kohli
Music:
Jatin-Lalit
Fanaa
has been the first and till date the only film in which Aamir Khan and
Kajol have been romantically paired opposite each other. (They had worked
together earlier way back in 1997 in Ishq, but Aamir was opposite Juhi Chawla
and Kajol was paired with her now husband Ajay Devgan). It was also Kajol's
comeback film 5 years after Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham. The music of the
film was the last brothers Jatin and Lalit Pandit composed as a team before
sadly parting ways professionally.
Fanaa,
released on May 26, 2006, was Kunal Kohli's third directorial venture
after Mujhse Dosti Karoge and Hum Tum and the final film of his 3-year deal
with Yash Raj Films.
Fanaa
charmed the audience with its unique story of a doomed romance between a blind
Kashmiri woman and a terrorist masquerading as a Delhi tour guide.and its
innovative twists and turns which, however, faltered with a rather lame
and clumsy climax.
Zooni
Ali Beg (Kajol) goes to Delhi with her friends to perform at a Republic Day
programme where she is swept off her feet by tour guide Rehan Qadri (Aamir).
Despite not taking her seriously initially, Rehan realises that he has fallen
in love with her and proposes after a dramatic chase on the train back to
Kashmir. Rehan takes Zooni to an eye doctor who suggests immediate surgery.
Even as her surgery is being performed Rehan is killed in a deadly bomb blast.
It is later revealed that Rehan, alive and well, is a member of a terror outfit
and the blast was actually triggered by him.
Seven
years later Zooni, now the mother of his child also named Rehan, is living with
her widowed father Zulfikar Ali Beg, (Rishi). Injured while on a mission to rob
a nuclear trigger device in the guise of an Indian Army officer Rehan stumbles
into Zooni's home in Kashmir and collapses. Zooni nurses him back to health
unaware of who he is yet is drawn towards him. He bonds with his son and Zooni
and reveals his identity as her lost love. An initially angry Zooni forgives
him and they marry in a quiet ceremony.
When
Zulfikar sees the nuclear trigger with Rehan, he confronts him, resulting in
his accidental death. Even as Rehan tries to hand over the device to his
terror group, Kajol shoots him.
From the romance in Delhi to becoming lovers and reconnecting
seven years later, the film proceeds smoothly, the script deftly navigating the
twists and turns in the lives of Rehan and Zooni. Where Kohli falters is in the
climax. It appeared rushed and doesn't fit in with the fabric and pace of the
rest of the film.
Both Aamir and Kajol are brilliant and effective in their roles,
Aamir as the negative/positive Rehan and Kajol as the self-sufficient blind
girl and later protective mother. Rishi Kapoor was as usual at his natural best.
Tabu as Malini Tyagi, an anti-terrorism officer investigating
Rehan and his terror outfit, appeared to be under-utilized in the film. The
role had been first offered to Sushmita Sen. See if you can spot Shiney Ahuja
in a miss-if-you-blink role !
The music by the soon-to-be-estranged brothers Jatin and Lalit
was warm and soothing, peppered with gems like the flirty 'Chand sifarish jo
karta', the patriotic 'Desh rangeela', the haunting 'Mere haath mein tera haath ho',
the sensuous 'Dekho na' or the light-hearted 'Chanda chamke'.
Fanaa racked in the moolah at the BO, turning out to be the
6th highest grossing film of 2006.despite the film getting banned in Gujarat
after Aamir Khan made some rather unsavoury remarks about the Gujarat
government and the lame climax. Two decades later it still manages to garner
repeat views on TV and OTT.
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