The protagonist of Secret Superstar had every reason to escape the clutches of her patriarchal household while here, Prashant does everything to help Lata. The film doesn't offer any excuses for her to treat her father the way she does. She comes across as a petulant child instead. For this film to even marginally work, Lata needed to be assertive but likable. Here, we have a slimy, rat-like producer (Asif Basra) with a swine for a subordinate in Girish Kulkarni. Above all, that film had empathy and heart. Only last year, we had Advait Chandan's Secret Superstar that took a similar premise of a talent, found and nurtured.īut that film was more - a mother and daughter trying for a release from an abusive relationship, a husband and a father. But Anil Kapoor still looks like the Anil Kapoor from that era and that gives way to an inquisitive dissonance. Fanney Khan runs like a film from a bygone era, a sad background music here, an irredeemable negative character there, a click-of-a-button manipulative scene following it all. All of this is filmed by Manjrekar in the most perfunctory, judgmental ways imaginable. Manjrekar has an even lesser understanding of what is happening.Įverywhere she performs Lata gets mocked for her weight and that masks her talent. He doesn't know what he is doing while Baby and Adhir begin to tragically flirt. Prashant doesn't have an idea.ĪLSO READ | Meet the unstoppable dreamers of 'Fanney Khan' At some point, it turns into demanding a recording chance for his daughter Lata, who dreams of making it as a singer-performer, in the mould of Baby Singh. Prashant, at first, thinks of demanding money. They have kidnapped Baby Singh to.not sure. In the foreground are Fanney Khan aka Prashant Sharma (Anil Kapoor), a blue-collar worker who finds himself driving a taxi after his factory closes, and Baby Singh (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) - one of the most ridiculous names for a prima donna, on screen or off - whom Prashant has kidnapped, an act for which he emotionally blackmailed his friend Adhir (Rajkummar Rao) into submission.Īdhir becomes Baby Singh's caretaker and Rao plays him with the very typical goofy, naivete-mixed charm that we've come to associate with him. That whole sequence makes up less than two minutes of Fanney Khan and it doesn't even happen in the foreground. That of a kidnapper bringing eggs and other assorted groceries, and chopping vegetables to prepare a meal for his victim. Atul Manjrekar's Fanney Khan has one interesting visual.
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