![]() Credit the director, Kunal Kohli, for the old-fashioned simplicity of his storytelling, if not for his primitive sexual politics. ![]() Their insipid romance is fortified by exchanges of poetry, impromptu musical numbers and frolics through metropolitan splendor, all of which is undermined by an ugliness of spirit that allows for a delightful woman to fall (empty) head over (obedient) heels for a repugnant leading man. On arriving in Delhi to perform a spectacular song-and-dance number for the annual Independence Day celebration, she falls in love with Rehan, a smarmy, over-accessorized tour guide (Aamir Khan). We begin in the provinces, where a beautiful blind girl, Zooni (Kajol), is pitied for her lack of a husband. The epic Bollywood extravaganza "Fanaa" goes so far over the top that it reinvents itself halfway and launches on a brand new trajectory of the absurd.
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