Fanaa: tagline might be 'destroyed in love' but personally I am destroyed by prettiness!

[dangermousie]

As promised: a picspam of Fanaa, a Bollywood super-hit of 2006, starring two of BW's biggest: Kajol and Aamir Khan.

Fanaa (tagline: 'Destroyed in Love' just so we'll know it will end up well) is one of those movies possible only in Bollywood: an epic, almost three-hour romance between a blind Kashmiri woman (symbolism!) and a terrorist which somehow, impossibly, works. Zooni comes to Bombay to perform with a delegation and meets a carefree tour guide who is not what he seems. It is one of the most romantic movies I have seen and is definitely in the running for my favorite Bollywood movies ever. (I wrote psychotically long write-ups/analyses when it first came out, if interested just click on tag).



It is also one of the most gorgeously filmed movies out there. If I was going to cap the entire movie, I would break my GOMPlayer, so instead, I just capped a few of the most gorgeous, favorite scenes. I can't post them all at once (it's hundreds and hundreds of caps), so I am going to do it in stages.



The scene I am posting now is when Zooni (Kajol) asks Rehan (Aamir Khan) to spend the night with her, no strings attached. Part musical number, part dreamscape, this is gorgeous.





First off a couple of earlier random shots:





Main Event:

















Yes, he is kissing her foot. In the rain.









































































If you think this is pretty, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Mere Haath Mein, a song picturization from the second half of the movie, is tied for my most favorite number in Bollywood.





But that picspam is to come...

Comments

[hiiyaa.livejournal.com]

OMG yes! suppress thoughts of Aamir's hair in first half.. suppress thoughts of...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Even the hair didn't stop me. He is MUCH hotter as the angsty terrorist though:



Ohhhh.

One of the things I loved the most about the movie is that it made me loathe Rehan and then a minute later love him and then again. And even at the end, it's not as if he decided his ideals (or methods) were wrong: it's just he found something (or someone) he loved more...

[hiiyaa.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, Aamir of second half *____*.

I liked the fact that he was very human. Not a picture perfect BW-hero (I love those as well) but a human.

And even at the end, it's not as if he decided his ideals (or methods) were wrong: it's just he found something (or someone) he loved more...
So true.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, despite a lot of typical Bollywoodness (not that that is a bad thing) there was a lot of complexity there...

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that's frigging gorgeous! Is there a download anywhere?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

YES! There is. I will pm you.

*tempts further*

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I am currently not in my apartment (but rather at mum's place) and everything online is making me miss my DVD's. Fanaa is such a glorious movie. To be honest I haven't rewatched it that much, probably because the ending tears me to bits. Watching the songs may be an option, though.

God how I ficced this movie! I sometimes get fic bunnies from BW films to this day but I haven't been PLAGUED by them since Fanaa, sadly.

The last screencap of Mere haath mein is one of the hottest pics of Aamir ever.

By the way, I remember watching this last August or so and wondering if you liked it - Maine Pyar Kiya, Salman's first movie? Cheesy as heck but the best film from Rajshri I know since I didn't like HAHK/HSSH much.. I also saw Ek Duuje Ke Liye last fall, a really cute romance between a Hindi speaker and a Tamil speaker, gets a bit angsty at the end and is one of the most talked about romantic movies of the olde. You might enjoy it.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I love love love you Fanaa fic!

I've enjoyed MPK...it was cheesy but agree. bst Rajshri movie, not that this is hard.

I am going to watch EDKL...sounds great!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

God, these are beautiful. Can I take some of them? I am in love with Aamir Khan's arms. And his mouth. And Kajol is simply the most beautiful woman in the world.

What I love about the sex thing is that she initiates it. She is such a wonderful heroine in this film: blind and sweet and decorous but also in full control over what she wants and what she desires and she goes into this with both eyes open, as it were, knowing it has no future. And Aamir's tormented face as he gazes at her and can't help himself... You know, I think this is a movie that improves on second viewing because then you already know that he is a terrorist and you see things in all the earlier things that you didn't see first time round (or at least, I didn't see them).

I love raindrop poiint-of-view! And oh, I love each and every single kissing-of-throat scene.

So (*is curious*), if the Mera haath mein song is a tie, what is the other song...?

My top songs are nearly all in Dil Se. The song sequence in that movie alone tells a story all unto itself.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Of course you can take! Mmmm...Aamir. I never got the fuss about him and then he did Fanaa and Rang De Basanti in close succession and I was a goner.

My other favorite picturization is Suraj Hua Maddam in K3G. Talk about scorching!

blind and sweet and decorous but also in full control over what she wants and what she desires and she goes into this with both eyes open, as it were, knowing it has no future

I love that she takes charge of her fate - in a lot of ways she is more active than Rehan in their relationship. He is more reactive but she goes for what she wants or what she thinks should be done.

Aamir's tormented face as he gazes at her and can't help himself...

I don't think he's ever been loved selflessly before, by anyone (his grandfather is a monster and his life doesn't allow close relationships). Zooni doesn't want anything from him, not even to tie him down -she just loves him and, even more importantly, she thinks he is good, and that is something he desperately needs. He believes in his ideals but he knows he's become an evil person in pursuit of them so to have someone who is good and kind but no nitwit believe he has good in him enables him to believe for himself there is good left in him. She enables him to be human and he wants that.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

The more I think about this film, the more I love it. Also what you said in your other post about the blindness as metaphor; that hadn't occurred to me before. So many layers!

I had no interest in Aamir Khan in Lagaan and then saw Rang de Basanti because of Fanaa. And I saw Fanaa because of Kajol.

Suraj Hua Maddam in K3G: is that the Egypt song? I LOVE Kajol in a black sari. *dies*

I am imprinted like a duck with KKKH. The pavilion! Though that's not even a song. And Dil Se, I am lost to Dil Se. Every song in that makes me shiver. And talk about angst. What is it with these terrorist love films?? When they dance in the mountains, and go berserk with obsession -- *dies*.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's the Egypt song, yes.

The scene in the gazebo in KKHH is arguably my favorite Bollywood scene.