~~~Insipid movie~~~. Review on Fanaa

Fanaa is the latest love story out of Bollywood. The film has a new pair, Kajol-Amir, music by Jatin-Lalit, and direction by Kunal Kohili. Sounds promising, doesn't it? Unfortunately, Fanaa didn't quite reach the height of my expectations.Fanaa features yet another insipid and uninspired storyline

Zooni[Kajol] is a blind Kashmiri girl who meets Rehan Qadri (Aamir Khan), a tour guide in Delhi and an incorrigible flirt and falls in love. What Zooni doesn’t know is that Rehan is a terrorist — something that cannot only change her life, but also destroy it.

On a ten scale of filmi predictability, Fanaa actually ranks a twelve. It is so often obvious what is going to happen next that you could probably give yourself credit for writing the story. And the problem is that when Kunal Kohili is copying Dil se and countless recent romance , the film is drab.

What makes Fanaa watchable to minimum level are its light and different touches infused by the director and the crew. The innocence of a child´s longing for a fatherly figure, for one, is realistically shown. So is the confusion and angst of a woman who has once before been hurt by a male in her life. As an antidote to the regular bollywood movie, Fanaa succeeds fully with its mature and righteous perspective.

Further credit can be given to Kajol, in particular, proves she does not need a Yash Chopra/Karan Johar to extract a good performance from her. It's sad to see Amir being made to go through the bump and grind, and spouting lines that must have him cringing inside .

The vast majority of the limited songs also show up at the right moments, a rarity in this day and age of shoving twenty songs into a five hour romance about .Choreography, cinematography and set designs, it is all fun to watch, though "Chanda chamke" will stand as my personal favourite.

Cinematography is first rate, and Ravichandran picked some rather picturesque locales in POLAND. The editing and art direction are okay. The editing is patchy, all but removing the impact created by the breath-taking visuals; the art director seems to have stuffed everything he could hire to decorate the interiors.

Watch it at your own peril.

Best part in the movie-interval and the END