Finding Fanny Movie Review: Acting is top class

Finding Fanny is a 2014 film and its has been released today in English & Hindi languages, Finding Fanny is being directed and written by Homi Adajania and produced by Dinesh Vijan under Maddock Films and presented by Fox Star Studios.

Finding Fanny Cast

• Naseeruddin Shah as Ferdie


• Dimple Kapadia as Rosalina “Rosie” Eucharistica


• Pankaj Kapur as Don Pedro Cleto Colaco


• Deepika Padukone as Angie


• Arjun Kapoor as Savio Da Gama


• Anand Tiwari


• Kevin D’Mello


• Ankur Tewari


• Anjali Patil as Stefanie “Fanny” Fernandes (special appearance)


• Ranveer Singh as Gabo, Angie’s husband (special appearance)

The Finding Fanny film is based on a road trip set in Goa,India and follows the journey of five dysfunctional friends who set out on a road trip in search of Fanny, the love-interest of the character played by Naseeruddin Shah. Finding Fanny had its premiere in India on September 1, 2014 and is scheduled for release worldwide on Today- September 12, 2014. It has also been selected to be screened at 19th Busan International Film Festival in October, 2014. The film has been cleared with a U/A certificate.

The director Homi Adajania who made a commercial masala film like Cocktail actually made this film. Finding Fanny is not a routine Bollywood film, it’s for a very niche audience. Most filmmakers say that their films are different but take my word for it because this one is actually different. The story revolves around five characters and is set in a village called Pocolim in Goa where life is slow and simple. Their needs are minimal and they live what I would call a retired life. A young widow Angie (Deepika Padukone) decides to help the old postman of the village Fredie (Naseeruddin Shah) to find his long lost love. He is depressed because it’s now, after 46 years he finds out that the love letter he wrote to the woman he loved actually never reached her.

In this mission of Finding Fanny, Angie ropes in her mother-in-law Rosie (Dimple Kapadia) the self-appointed Lady of Pocolim who calls the shots and throws her weight around with the locals. Savio (Arjun Kapoor) who loved Angie many years ago is back in town, he will drive the car as he is the only one who can, the car which belongs to Don Pedro, an artist who’s interested in Rosalina. It actually is not the destination that matters here but it’s the journey of these five characters completely different from each other but with clean hearts. There is an undercurrent of humour in the film, in fact some scenes will leave you in splits.

Acting is top class. All the five actors Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Deepika Padukone and Arjun Kapoor display their best talent and put up an amazing show.

According to the New York Times, RACHEL SALTZ:

“Finding Fanny” is all the more disappointing because Mr. Adajania, who made his debut with “Being Cyrus” (2005), has an off-kilter sensibility that doesn’t depend on Bollywood formula. (Like “Cyrus,” “Fanny” is in English.) But Mr. Adajania’s visual sense remains sharp. Anil Mehta’s images — especially the sky blue Dodge moving through the Goa landscape — hint at the better movie Mr. Adajania might have had in mind.

 

Conclusion

Anil Mehta does a terrific job for Cinematography. The film is very well produced. Music is seamless for this film by Mathias Duplessy & Sachin-Jigar. It’s tough to get the music right, which plays a very important role and here this is confirmed clearly in sync with the director’s vision. Arjun makes the best of Savio, Deepika is getting to be a relaxed performer.

 

 

 

Finding Fanny Movie Review: Acting is top class