Fanaa (2006)

I wonder how could Fanaa be such a great film.After 10 years of its release I saw it & I m spellbound. Kajol has looked the most beautiful ever in this film & Aamir is so charming.You actually fall for Rehan specially those Shayari sequences.Kajol & Aamir were brilliant as usual & their chemistry is so great.While watching Fanaa I didn't realize I was watching Kajol & Aamir.They transformed into Zooni & Rehan completely.Thanx Kunal Kohli.Its even better than HT.Tabu Rishi Kapoor & Kirron Kher were great.Music is so beautiful & background music is too good & suits the film so much.Everything is great about this film.I just wished Zooni had not shot Rehan in the climax.A painful yet a beautiful story.Zooni & Rehan spent some 7-9 days in Delhi & some 9-10 days in the second half.Yet they loved each other.I actually started believing in love after watching Fanaa.Go & watch it if u haven't.You will be smitten.Kajol & Aamir's best performance according to me.And yes they have become my favorites.Wish they come back in a film soon.

I just finished this movie and I am trying to figure out why it got such negative reviews when in reality, the acting steadily improved throughout the movie, the music was great, the shots incredible, and the story quite original! But then I realized -- the first and second parts of the movie are basically total opposites, to the extent that you can really only like one or the other. In the first part, Rehan is a womanizing, charming kind of guy who wants to live life to the fullest, while Zooni is innocent, cute, and ready to fall in love with the first guy who looks at her twice (seriously!?). But then the second half happens and they're both scared, jaded, suspicious, and the movie goes from a cute love story to a mission impossible-type scenario with guns and explosions and all those other goodies. Personally, I much preferred the second half. And I thought the ending was excellent! Maybe it's because I'm still a n00b when it comes to Bollywood, but I didn't see the end coming until a few seconds before it happened and then it was like WHAM BAM, he's dead, end of movie. The thing that bothered me most about this movie was the blatant propaganda. To me the meaning was clear: loyalty to country before loyalty to love. Not a bad lesson, especially when it involves saving the lives of millions of civilians, but not what I was expecting after my experience with Hollywood. They would have solved a plot twist like this by making everyone a villain and the hero and heroine run away to Bali or something to eat coconuts and wear grass skirts. This is NOT that kind of movie!!

'Fanaa' may be the kind of film that looks good in paper but the execution to screen is just plain awful. Kunal Kohli 's movie looks like a parody of Mani Ratnam's classic 'Dil se'. Of course Kohli loads 'Fanaa' with too much 'masala' (spice) and sugar. For the most part the film is unintentionally funny with it's overdone action sequences, very badly written dialogues, syrupy romantic scenes, annoying background music, poor special effects and what not. After every few seconds, someone would be screaming 'Ya Maulaaaaa' in the background. The songs are pleasant to the ears but, with the exception of 'Mere Haath Mein' and maybe 'Des Rangeela', they are forgettable. I don't see what's so great about the overrated 'Chand Sifarish' which is constructed of horrendous lyrics albeit the tune is hummable. There are so many things in this movie for which Kohli cannot be easily forgiven but why on earth did an actress of Tabu's calibre agree to play such a terrible role instead of throwing the script at the director's face? This is among her worst career-choices. Aamir Khan is hilariously bad. His caricature terrorist does provide some unintentional laugh out loud moments especially in sequences where he's dramatic. Rishi Kapoor is equally ridiculous and annoying too. There is this child actor who makes you cringe so bad that you feel like strangling him or wishing that he had been thrown off the cliff along with Rishi Kapoor. The best thing about 'Fanaa' is Kajol who is the only person that acts plays her part with gusto and grace and the result is a fine performance. But how much can just one great performance can do for what is an overall horrendous boring film.

Fanaa is a gripping tale of true love, terrorism, loss, and freedom. It's also about making the right choices, and listening to your heart, which is cheesy but kind of true.Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) is a beautiful, confident, witty Kashmiri girl, whose only problem in life is the fact that she can't see. She's blind. Despite this, she shares a warm and loving relationship with her parents, Nafisa (Kiron Kher) and Zulfikar (Rishi Kapoor), who adore their daughter and always dream of her finding her 'prince'. Zooni travels to Delhi with her friends, who are also her dance troupe, for a performance, and secretly hopes to bump into love on the way. Once in Delhi, Zooni meets Rehan, their tour guide, who has a roving eye for women. Rehan is completely fascinated by Zooni, and she by him, despite her friends' warnings about his Casanova personality. Rehan shows Zooni how to see without her eyes. How to view Delhi's beauty despite her blindness, and bowls her over with his poetry. The two soon fall in love, and Rehan admits Zooni to a hospital for an operation that will regain her vision. Zooni's eyes open, but they never see Rehan. He was killed in a bomb blast by IKF - Independent Kashmiri Front - a ruthless organization that desire an independent Kashmir. Zooni's world is destroyed, and she returns home, where she later delivers a baby boy, who she names Rehan Jr, in memory of her love. Seven years later she gets a desperate knock on the door, by a wounded army officer in need of urgent medical attention. Zooni helps nurse him back to health, but she has no idea how this one man can turn her world even more upside down, and cause her to make decisions in life that she never thought she could.Kajol owned all the way through. I though Aamir was very good also but just could not match her. She looked completely stunning and held the top spot till the end. I strongly believe this is one of her best performances, and was quite surprised because I have seen a lot of Kajol's movies and I have never thought she'd play a blind girl with so much conviction. But she was amazing. Aamir was not as powerful compared to his female counterpart but he was extremely convincing as Rehan. But I liked him much more in the 1st half, sprouting poetry. He looked a little old in the 2nd half, which was slightly off-putting. Tabu delivered a very fine performance, second only to Kajol. Her new look really suited her and she was great as the intelligent Anti-Terrorist official. Rishi Kapoor and Kiron Kher were perfectly cast as Zooni's parents, and an honourable mention goes to Ali Haji, who played Rehan Jr. He was so cute and outstanding for his age. Shiny Ahuja and Lara Dutta made small, forgettable appearances.For me the best thing about Fanaa was the chemistry between Aamir Khan and Kajol. They were superb individually and when they were together it was even better. Some of Aamir's best moments were when he was with Kajol, and vice versa. I never thought they'd make a good on-screen couple but I was proved wrong.The soundtrack of Fanaa is a big plus point. Each track is beautiful and I thought worked very well in the film. My favourite was 'Mere Haath Mein', a lovely song with even an even better picturization. Not forgetting that Sonu Nigam and Sunidhi Chauhan together is like sex on lyrics!:) 'Des Rangila' is an inspirational melody, and 'Chand Sifarish' has a really catchy tune to it. 'Dekho Naa' is also worth a mention, I loved the way it was used to create a romantic mood. The dialogues and choreography were great.All in all, Fanaa is a very well made movie, that isn't exactly up to the standard that Kunal Kohli set with Hum Tum, but close. And Kajol's performance makes it worth it.