FINDING FANNY: FILM REVIEW

My contribution to this blog comes in the form of a movie review, which the title of our blog may not necessarily convey. Anyway, the first movie I shall review is ‘Finding Fanny’, and my authority on the same is not final so feel free explore it for yourself. 

The plot of the film rests on a group of unlikely people taking a road trip together with varying motivations I never came to care for.The film comes with a studded star cast and most of them do not disappoint. Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapoor light up the screen and bring their respective characters to life. I was equally delighted to see how far Deepika Padukone has come as an actor (with specific reference to 'Cocktail'). Arjun Kapoor seems to have transported the essence of his enraged character from ‘Gundey’ (which was sold to me under false pretence of being an intentional comedy) to the quaint Goan village of ‘Pokoli’. Dimple Kapadia disappointed in the crucial scenes that could have inspired a connection with her character. My favourate one, however, was Ranveer Singh’s guest appearance as 'Gabo', for precisely 30 seconds, where he chokes on cake and dies on his own wedding day.

Of course, there is not much of a story but it is sprinkled with a few good dialogues, Don Pedro's (Pankaj Kapoor) addressing Ferdie (Naseeruddin Shah) as the ‘Cassanova of the Konkan’ was funny because of so many reasons, one of being the irony because Ferdie was a'one woman man with no woman'. Some of the more reflective dialogues, however, felt forced in the attempt to in-organically forge a connection with the journey of the characters in the film. 

Sadly there wasn't enough in the movie to salvage it. The fact that you never buy into the universe of any of these characters makes the film quite boring to watch. The second half was dragged out and the ending made as much sense as any of Salman Khan’n interviews. The music of the movie was good, at least I thought it was, and some of the scenes were beautifully shot but none of it was enough to stop me from looking at my phone.

You could probably watch the film once and come out contemplating how could have spent your Sunday morning more productively, for instance by going to MKT and enjoying some pancakes and iced tea.