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| Jun 03, 2006 at 12:47 PM | |
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Fanaa: Fanatic love vs fanatic terror ASHOK KUMAR Posted online: Saturday, June 03, 2006 at 1900 hours IST NEW DELHI, JUNE 3: It was one of the rare moments of my life that I went to see a movie and after spending a few bucks and hours was not actually repenting the move to move for a movie. This time as chance would have it happened to be Kajol-Aamir starrer Fanaa. Though the promos and reviews spilling over the screens of the twenty four hour channels and the coloured spaces of the national dailies both in Hindi and English had left very little for speculation about the theme and climax of the saga of a blind love of a blind girl with a man, who was blind to accomplish his mission of doing his bid in emancipating his Kashmir. As critics have said and written it all, there is no denying the fact that the lady of the film Kajol a happily married woman in her real world life disapproved of her status on the reel. Whoever is in a habit of classifying the girls as the married and unmarried ones Kajol for once and always in the movie has successfully tried to dispel that belief. Stunning as she is, she could very easily with her impromptu smiles and the facial contours that she sports while speaking her heart in love to the audience certainly mesmerises the viewers and serves before them a real treat. Aamir too as expected by his die hard fans is on his marks and ushers life to the both the stark characters of a platonic lover and a fanatic terrorist which he played in Fanaa. When he played as a lover of a visually challenged girl in the first half he is a chocolate boy next door, who is interested in nothing but fun, frolic and girls with an exception of paying a special attention to her beloved and trying to mould himself a bit to her fancies. But the post interval session for sure reminded of the determined and sweating Aamir of Lagaan who could go to any imagined extent for accomplishing his task. Donning the role of a hard-core mission oriented terrorist ready to put his very life at stake for his stated mission of fighting for the freedom of Kashmir. It was really a meat for the viewers to dig their savouring eyes in two palatable characters dividing (Rehan) Aamir in both the halves of movie. Even as Aamir and Kajol have fully justified their acting skills in playing Juni (Kajol) and Rehan (Aamir) and leading the film to the fruitful climax there was one more thing which could successfully claim its due, for giving meaning to the whole drama is the background music. It would not be wrong to say that the film would not have scored much had the background score would not have been what it eventually came out to be. It looks as if the whole ambience of the movie be it the terror on the white snow of Kashmir valley or the sweating romance of Juni (Kajol) and Rehan (Aamir) in Delhi would have sounded empty without the background stuff effectively played by Salim Sulaiman duo. Though the film moves smoothly throughout but suddenly heads for an abrupt end. Instead of doing a poetic justice to Juni (Kajol) who lost her love as soon as she discovers her sight the script decides to let patriotism prevail over platonic love and Rehan (Aamir) the terrorist is killed by the most unexpected Juni (Kajol). Whatever illusion that crowded my mind by the climax was again dissipated by the Salim Sulaiman’s mesmerising Subhan Allaha……… |
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