FINDING FANNY Reviews & Box-Office thread - Page 25

Originally posted by: zohasad2.0

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naach isliye kyunki deepu is getting praise from everyone 😆

Just back from Finding Funny .Must say this is a pleasant surprise .Did not expect it to be so entertaining yet so touching.The film is a roller coaster ride from the word go with non stop entertainment .However if you are looking for a typical entertainer ,its better to stay away .Finding Fanny is unlike anything I have seen in Bollywood .

The film has has a decent start and gets really interesting once the road trip begins.It has a different style of narration and truly out of box concept .The film reminded me of Hollywood movie 'Letters to Juliet' which had a similar premise .The story itself has been presented in a non filmy manner and it looks so real.There is nothing filmy about Finding Fanny.The film despite being about real characters is quite entertaining.I expected a dull art drama but there is seldom a boring moment with plenty of jokes thrown around .

The comic situations that arise in the film never feel forced and appear completely natural .There was a constant smile on my face throughout the whole film.The film is equally rich in emotions .The climax is quite touching and took me by a complete surprise .Deepika's speech in the final about true love was noteworthy .Must say the film leaves a much bigger after impact . I usually forget about a film once it is over .But this film continues to linger in my mind even now and I plan to watch it again .There are so many things to be discovered here .The first viewing is simply not enough to grasp so many brilliant moments which the film has to offer.

On the flip side ,the humor depicted in the film is quite subtle and not everyone will like it.Also the pacing is quite slow and those who do not like slow movies are sure to be disappointed .The film is actually an acquired taste ..One may not take to it instantly .

The ensemble cast is what makes this film a true winner .Deepika leads the show clearly .She looks breathtakingly beautiful and carries her role really well .Her eyes convey so much .Her growth is truly astounding .The best actress currently.Arjun Kapoor is such a relief from your typical Bollywood heroes .He is a treat to watch except for one scene where he confronts Dimple .He went bit overboard in that scene .Naseer is very good as expected .Dimple is a scene stealer with her fantastic comic timing .Pankaj Kapoor provides ample laughs with his perv act .However the culmination to his character is not that convincing .

Overall ,a beautiful film that works wonderfully well .An unconventional yet highly entertaining affair .A must see!

4 / 5

Originally posted by: rewaa

The ensemble cast is what makes this film a true winner .Deepika leads the show clearly .She looks breathtakingly beautiful and carries her role really well .Her eyes convey so much .Her growth is truly astounding .The best actress currently.Arjun Kapoor is such a relief from your typical Bollywood heroes .He is a treat to watch except for one scene where he confronts Dimple .He went bit overboard in that scene .Naseer is very good as expected .Dimple is a scene stealer with her fantastic comic timing .Pankaj Kapoor provides ample laughs with his perv act .However the culmination to his character is not that convincing .

Overall ,a beautiful film that works wonderfully well .An unconventional yet highly entertaining affair .A must see!

4 / 5

First member review, thanks for sharing.

Originally posted by: Bella.

First member review, thanks for sharing.

Btw how was the occupancy?

Was about 50% full .Should pick up with positive Wom..

The ApunKaChoice movie review of Finding Fanny. Director Homi Adajania's film Finding Fanny is a quirky tale of five oddball characters, each with idiosyncrasies to put the other to shade. The setting is Pocolim, a sleepy, fictitious village at the back of beyond in Goa.

There's Angie (Deepika Padukone) a young, beautiful virgin' widow (what a blow of fate!) who seems intent on helping the village postman Ferdie (Naseeruddin Shah) find his childhood sweetheart Stephanie Fernandes. At the dusk of his life, Ferdie is crestfallen when the love letter he wrote Stephanie 46 years ago comes back undelivered.

There's Rosie (Dimple Kapadia), Angie's haughty mother-in-law so broad in the beam that her skirts need just a little bum pressure to rend apart. Churrr! That also explains the hand fans she carries. There's Don Pedro (Pankaj Kapur), a randy painter who's found his muse in Rosie's formidable bum and bosom. And there's the cranky car mechanic Savio (Arjun Kapoor). He harbours a crush on Angie.

These five oddballs cram themselves in a run-down Impala car and set forth on a journey to find Fanny. Tempers run high, affections are founded, mistakes realized, and virginity willingly lost (but not without some post-act chaffing) on this trip that has its share of bumps and accidents.

Smart humour is delightfully sprinkled throughout the 92-minute running course of Finding Fanny. Quips and rejoinders fly by so thick and quick that you almost pause to reflect on their smartness. In one scene, when Rosie (Dimple Kapadia) suspects a robber snooping around the house and Angie (Deepika Padukone) shouts out to the intruder, Rosie is quick to chide her, "Don't make noise, you might scare the robber away!"

Pankaj Kapur is given one gem of a line after another and he endows his Don Pedro with the natural leeriness of a rutting deer. He mocks the frail Ferdie as "Casanova of the Konkan", steals sneaks at Rosie's cleavage and derriere, and is eerily calm when sparks fly, but never not randy when faced with his muse.

In comparison, Naseeruddin Shah's character is a self-pitying, devastated, lovelorn loner and the actor underplays his hand commendably. Dimple Kapadia is a sheer treat to watch as the overbearing, unapologetic, somewhat snobbish Rosie blessed with a hulking posterior.

Deepika Padukone and Arjun Kapoor come up with smooth, no-frills-attached performances, and manage to strike a chemistry that has both awkward moments and effortless coziness alike.

A special word of praise for composers Mathias Duplessy and Sachin-Jigar, whose music and songs actually make you wanna shake your bootiya. Anil Mehta's camera captures the Goan milieu beautifully. And kudos to director Homi Adajania for making a very original, quirky, delightful, funny film that's driven more by its characters than the plot.

Finding Fanny unspools at its own sweet time, much like life would in a languid Goan village. The film gives a wide birth to clichs and relishes in character idiosyncrasies. If there is a truly different' film that has come from Bollywood in 2014, this is it. Finding Fanny is a whiff of freshness.

Movie Review: Finding Fanny is for a very niche audience


To start with I am impressed with the fact the director who made a commercial masala film like Cocktail actually made this film. Finding Fanny is not a regular 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.

Cinematography by Anil Mehta does a terrific job. The film is very well crafted. Music by Mathias Duplessy and Sachin-Jigar is perfect for this film. It's tough to get the music right, which plays a very important role and here it's clearly in sync with the director's vision. If you are expecting a masala film because it has Bollywood's current top actress Deepika Padukone then you will be disappointed because it's not one!?

With Being Cyrus, Cocktail and now Finding Fanny Homi Adajania's filmography is quite a cocktail. To pull this off and make it entertaining is not easy, but it's clear he is an extremely talented filmmaker. If you are up for watching something different then go and watch Finding Fanny, you won't be disappointed.

Finding Fanny is fashioned like a serio-comic journey, featuring a wooly romantic, a lusty painter, a middle-aged matron, a lithe maiden, and a sulky young fellow. It is an unlikely bunch, getting together for an unlikely reason, and in the way of this kind of film, we are supposed to fall in love with the characters and their quirks, as they wind their way towards their destination and discovery.
Trouble is, the film is patchily quirky. An undelivered love letter comes back to the sender, more than four decades after the fact, and it sets into motion this little tale, which leaves you both smiling, when the whimsy is just right, and impatient, when it turns flatly prosaic. (You want to see how it's done, watch Wes Anderson's latest and most magnificent creation, The Grand Budapest Hotel').
When the going is good, it is excellent. The little Goan village where the action takes place is lovely, its sun-dappled paths leading us to the cluttered abodes of Ferdie (Naseer) the postman, the recipient of the undelivered letter, of Rosie and Angie (Dimple and Deepika respectively), the two women who live without their men in resigned companionship, and the garage run by Savio (Arjun Kapoor) which houses a run-down car.
The characters set off to find long-lost love: the journey isn't too long as the crow flies, but many home truths are uncovered as the miles go by. I really enjoyed Naseer's performance in this one: he is as unmannered and unburdened by tics as he can be, and as bashful as a young lover in the first flush.
I'd pick Arjun Kapoor as a near-match. Arjun Kapoor has the right physicality for his role, and he makes the best of Savio, who once and forever loves the dimpled Angie, who , in turn, turns to him for some answers: Deepika is getting to be a relaxed performer, learning to put aside her rangy beauty to reach inside for something true.
Dimple Kapadia shows just how sharp she can be, especially in a sequence towards the end where she fills the screen, but is encumbered by a dissatisfied curve to the mouth and an evidently heavily-padded posterior: yes, there are all kinds of fannies in the world. As Don Pedro, the florid painter with a thing for oversized bottoms, Pankaj Kapoor is mostly overdone flourish, rescuing his act with one great one, which is the gasp-inducing shocker of the film.
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For most part of this film, a bunch of fantastic actors are together in a frame, sitting in a blue beaten car, presumably to find Fanny but largely to give us a delightful dollop of entertainment.

Set in a sleepy village Pocolim tucked somewhere in the interiors of Goa, Finding Fanny lazes and lingers like a cat under the warm sun , as its inhabitants saunter about their unhurried, monotonous days in the most casual manner.

Naseeruddin Shah is Ferdie, the emotional sucker, the trustworthy friend and the man who's lost the only woman he loved. Dimple Kapadia is Rosie, the bossy woman with ample assets, who successfully manages to hide her helplessness and disappointment with life by her stand offish ways. Pankaj Kapur is Don Pedro, an original painter with fake charm. Could you ask for more? Well, giving them company is the gorgeous widow Angie (Deepika Padukone) and the irritable, emotionally drawn out but endearing Savio Da Gama (Arjun Kapoor).

The journey begins after Ferdie finds out that the letter that he had written to Fanny (Anjali Patil) 46 years ago, professing his love to her never really got delivered to her. His best friend Angie wants him to find Fanny. And thus the journey begins which slowly unravels the plot and in the process, revealing the true personalities of the characters involved.

Pankaj Kapur, the brilliant actor that he is, makes the best use of the deliciously wicked lines given to him as he brings polished Pedro to life. But it is Naseer's timid Ferdie who grows on you slowly and finds a tiny place in your heart. Dimple Kapadia as the feisty Rosie tended to go overboard at places, but is charming nevertheless. Deepika Padukone shines as she plays it cool and casual to suit the mood of the film. Arjun Kapoor, plays his 'boy lost in the woods' character with surprising ease and competence. This is undoubtedly his best performance till date.

Anil Mehta's beautiful cinematography adds to the film. The best thing about this screwball comedy is that Homi Adajania has evidently made it purely for the fun of it and not as a desperate bid to play to the gallery. Imagine spending a night in a shack on a beach in Goa, drinking your poison and sharing mad jokes with friends all night. Watch this one for a slice of that kind of experience.

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Finding fanny: Lost and found

ANUJ KUMAR

How far will you go to find love? After a Bollywood "Cocktail", Director Homi Adajania drinks neat and manages to capture the quirks of love and longing with lust playing hide and seek. On the surface it appears as nothing more than absurd humour highlighting the eccentricities of five Goans caught in a time warp. But as the wrap unravels, Homi delivers the bitter uncertainties of life in the form of a sweet pill without letting us know what he is up to. Like a seasoned magician he takes the carpet off our feet when you least expect it.

It is a kind of film which keeps a smile on your face but at the same time makes you feel guilty about how pride can ruin budding relationships. It shows us the shapes unrequited love can take. It is this twitchy feeing that makes this screwball comedy special. Not many films manage to make the heart twinge these days, when, like many things, emotions are also manufactured.

Set in Pocolim, a fictional Goan village where change is not the only constant in life, an aging postman Ferdie cries one night when he finds a letter that he posted more than four decades has returned to him. It is a letter where Ferdie had spelt out his emotions for Stephanie Fernandes (Anjali Patil). A young angelic widow Angie (Deepika Padukone) helps him to find Stephanie or Fanny by putting together a journey where they are joined in by Angie's frenzied widowed mother in law Rosie (Dimple Kapadia). They need a car and a driver. So they lure Don Podro (Pankaj Kapur), a painter in love with Rosie's voluptuous body and the brooding Savio (Arjun Kapoor), who was in love with Angie but was too proud to express it.

Rosie comes with her cat Nareus, who soon becomes a metaphor for what these travellers are hiding. As the masks come off, mirth and melancholy become intimate bedfellows, best captured in the scene where Angie gives Savio a polite dressing down after making love. Or the one where Don Podro discovers that his passion for Rosie is only skin deep.

One has learnt that the screenplay is drawn from a yet to be published novel by Homi's long time collaborator Kersi Khambatta. Though it doesn't guarantee but when you draw from a well soaked material, chances are that the characters don't crumble easily. Also the dialogues don't slip into contrivances. The film is made in English and there is not a single moment where you feel that these people are putting up a faade. There is a Hindi dub version playing in theatres as well. This critic watched both and found that not much has lost in translation. It is partly because Homi has retained crucial words and sentences in English and largely because he hasn't relied only on words to express the quirks of the characters. A lot has been captured through expressions and he has got the cast to deliver the goods. Take the opening scene where Ferdie discovers that the letter never reached Fanny. Before Homi spill the details, Naseer conveys the pain of the unrequited love through his mien. Seasoned cinematographer Anil Mehta turns the languid pace of the place into a work of art and French composer Mathias Duplessy tunes and arrangements generate the Portuguese flavour even when the lines go the "Mahi vey".

With "Cocktail", Homi established that Deepika has more to her than just a pretty face. Angie is the opposite of Veronica but as we found an Angie in Veronica, here we discover a streak of Veronica in Angie. Playing an irresistible dame who will say sorry before slaying, Deepika takes off the fineries of Bollywood and you can sense the freedom from baggage in her performance. Arjun shows restraint with his scowls and for once sounds genuine in his anguish. Kapur doesn't allow the flamboyant Don Podro to go over the top but it is Dimple who lends scars to this otherwise pretty-faced film as the lady whose fragile ego and frantic disposition often lead to funny results. Things get untangled rather easily towards the end making one feel that Homi hasn't paid heed to don Podro's advice - In art there is no compromise.' Still there are many reasons to get lost!