Fanaa: More Gorgeousness and Angst...

[dangermousie]

And I continue with my picspam of Fanaa, one of the prettiest movies ever.





But first off, the pre-interval scene where he takes her off the train. The master planner cannot fight it even if he knows it's a futile gesture...he wants to have her even if it's only for days. Once again, foreshadowing: she can leave him but he cannot leave her.













This is probably my favorite scene in the movie. This scene feels like a feverish dream and he is almost losing consciousness at this point and you can tell that this almost breaks him because he is in no state to have defenses and is utterly shocked and it has a certain incredible logic and it's like a doomed soul in hell who's had a glimpse of paradise. And when she screams "Rehan" and of course, of course you think it makes sense she recognizes him but then the little boy appears. OMG. (Btw, if you haven't seen the movie, she can see by that point...once again symbolic for the fact that this time the relationship will not be based entirely on disguise and lies).





















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Oh God, how I love this scene! The way she hits him, the way he doesn't dare to put his arms around her...





































I love how it flits between dreamscape and reality.







































































































































Man...that explains so much about Rehan. What a person to be given over to when you are three!























And he throws away his gun. I love it. That is the moment he knows she will kill him (she shot him already, after all). And he wants it.





I love how she mouths 'I love you' before she shoots.





















Their son's saying OMG.

Comments

[hiiyaa.livejournal.com]

Cue: Nahiiiiiiiiin!!!

OMG, Scene 5 with the late night antakshari game has to be my favourite scene. It's so intense, YUMMY!

Also, your picspam made me realize once again that I have this ginormous girlcrush on Kajol ♥.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Kajol is amazing, isn't she?

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

I
LOVE
THIS
MOVIE

SO MUCH EVEN ALLCAPS CANNOT EXPRESS IT.

And you hit all my VERY favourite parts! The way they have a little reunited family again! The way he betrays himself to her with the quoting! WHEN SHE SAYS 'YOUR LIFE IS MINE NOW,' OMG, OMG. And that marriage ceremony COUPLED WITH the beautiful beautiful dream-like images, oh, miGOD. I nearly DIED. I mean before I saw the movie, I was just all "OMG possibly most beautiful sequence I have ever seen!" and then watching it UNSPOILED I was just a complete blithering blabbing mess. I mean, moreso than usual! And "I love you" and "Rehan loves you more than you love Rehan" and "Now I'm not scared," OH, MY GOD. I was a sobbing WRECK. And I LOVED it.

POSSIBLY BEST MOVIE EVAR. (tatterpunk calls me obsessed! She lies! It's half her fault anyway!)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It's my fault indirectly then...I am the one who loaned Fanaa to tatterpunk :P

When he dies in her arms...oh, I cried so much. But it's the only peace he can find at that point. OMG. His hopes for a peaceful life with her and their child get more and more unrealistic as the movie goes on but it still breaks my heart.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

OMFG THE LITTLE IDYLL IN THE SNOW? Where they sing the little silly cute song and it is just the most heartbreaking thing EVER because you know it is DOOMED? ONLY IN BWOOD.

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Just friggin' SCREENCAPS brought tears to my eyes with the last scene. Crazy. And yet shows how powerful and great and intense it is.

Btw, did you ever listen to the director commentary on the DVD? It's so funny, because Kunal Kohli is a total Aamir fanboy and cannot stop talking about how amazing Aamir's acting is .. or Kajol's for that matter. :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I have actually never watched special features on my dvd. Must remedy it pronto.

[shewhohashope.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD. I AM CRYING AGAIN.

When will this film stop having this effect on me.

[Rehan loves you more than you love Rehan!]

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That phrase always gets me!

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Man, now I want to listen to the soundtrack again for that lovely, lovely song!!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

It really does have a lovely soundtrack!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

How overwhelmingly gorgeous.

P.S. May I use the screencap of Aamir with a bandage around his head for an icon? :-)

SPOILER ALERT!!! In case you haven't seen Mother India, I'm whiting out the following. Highlight it with cursor to see what's underneath. I want to say more about this later but for now: the closing scene reminded me a lot of Mother India and the end when Radha (Nargis) shoots her own son for the moral and social good of the entire community. Zoonie, of course, saves the entire world by shooting him whom she loves.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Of course you can use it and any other images! I haven't seen MI but I know the plot :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Spoiler re ending!! Don't read on if not wishing to know.

Well, it's a while since I saw it but the passionate shooting-of-beloved-family-member has to have played a role in the ending of Fanaa. That movie is such an icon; no doubt, that ending echoes throughout the decades. It's very angsty and very passionate, and the mother is totally driven but determined and steadfast and a beacon of moral good, and the only way she can save the community and the soul of her wayward going-to-evol son is by shooting him. They confront each other on a road. She shouts for him to stop, and he turns around (as far as I remember) and won't. He knows what she will do. Then there is reconciliation in dying.

There is no other ending possible in Fanaa. That's why it's tragedy. Zoonie has to kill Rehan.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Rehan can't have a happy ending: not after all he has done to innocents. That would be unjust, much as I love him. So agreed.