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EXCLUSIVE First Review #FanneyKhan from #UAE ! A Well Made Film in all Respects. @AnilKapoor gave Top Notch Performance ! He Nailed it. #AishwaryaRai, @RajkummarRao & gave Fantastic Performances. Engaging Story, First Rate Songs & Direction. Rating-

Fanney Khan Movie Review {3.0/5}: Critic Review of Fanney Khan by Times of India

Fanney Khan Story:
Fanney Khan' is a story of hopes, dreams and relationships. It's about a father who will stop at nothing to put his daughter on the grand stage as the next singing sensation of India.

Fanney Khan Review:
He couldn't become Mohammad Rafi, but harbours a dream of his daughter becoming Lata Mangeshkar. Prashant Sharma (Anil Kapoor) popularly known as Fanney Khan among his gulley friends, works hard to make ends meet, idolises Shammi Kapoor and lives only for his dream of superstardom. He fails to achieve that and hence pins his hopes on his new-born, even naming her Lata (Pihu Sand). Now in her teens, Lata not only sings well but also dances like a dream despite her plus size that regularly makes her an object of body shaming on stage.

Anil Kapoor hits all the right notes as a beleaguered father, who is often reprimanded by his own child for being so unflinchingly dedicated in his mission to see her succeed. He strikes the right balance for a middle class man in Mumbai struggling between dreams and reality. This even as his wife Kavita (Divya Dutta) continues to be his empathetic voice of reason. As a debutante, Pihu Sand captures the vulnerability of her character, but one never understands her constant grouse against her father. As the hotshot singer Baby Singh, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan looks befittingly gorgeous, but her storyline is etched without much effort or logic. The talented Rajkummar Rao as Prashant's trusted friend Adhir, shows his usual flair within a limited scope. While Rajkummar's chemistry with Aishwarya seems forced, his comic timing comes to the rescue.

Film's narrative goes slightly out of tune in second half. For example, there is no real backstory for Baby Singh and the only person in her life is a creepy manager, who wants her to stage a wardrobe malfunction for a reality show.

While the second half is long and laborious, earnest performances keep the boat afloat. For a musical, Fanney Khan's soundtrack doesn't live up fully except the Achche Din song which is pleasant and the finale song that exudes energy.

Overall, Fanney Khan' is a star studded musical that starts on a high note and has its moments of glory. It shows how parents live their dreams through children.

It does strike a few wrong chords to culminate into an emotional yet convenient climax. However, the showstopper is clearly Anil Kapoor with a knockout performance that makes Fanney Khan' worth a watch.

This one isn't going to work I think.

According to trade expert girish johar Fanney Khan could see an opening day collection of Rs 2.5 crore at the domestic box office...Which is packed with an ensemble cast who are known for their acting performances

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Film: Fanney Khan;
Director: Atul Manjrekar;
Starring: Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai
Bachchan, Rajkummar Rao, Divya Dutta, Pihu
Sand, Girish Kulkarni;
Rating: *** (3 and half stars)
Tucked away somewhere in this father-
daughter heartwarmer, is a story about
Baby Singh, a lonely exploited pop singer
played by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan whose
manager (played with splendid sliminess by
Girish Kulkarni) suggests that she do some
quick wardrobe malfunction on the ramp to
attract attention.
As if malfunction was a bonafide function
on the religious calendar.
Aishwarya, God bless her pristine soul, does
what any decent girl would. She asks the
slimeball to drop her off on the road.
Huffing and puffing she hops into a taxi
being driven by none other than our
Fanney Khan' a wannabe Mohd Rafi who
wants to make his oversized daughter
another Lata Mangeshkar.
Cheers to that. The basic thought behind
the film is clever and emotionally
resplendent. But then why not the songs of
the nightingale instead of the absurd music
that carpets the crisis.
But then the failed Rafi a.k.a Fanney decides
to kidnap the singing diva Baby Singh with
the help of a friend (Rajkummar Rao) who
promptly falls in love with her.
While Fanney grapples with the singing
career of his under-talented oversized
obnoxious daughter (the contempt that
Pihu Sand puts in her voice and demeanour
when talking to her naive goodhearted
father made me cringe) Baby and Baba
(that's Adhir, Rajkummar Rao) romance in a
rush of ransom resplendence.
If you've seen the Belgian original
"Everybody's Famous, you'd know that
plausibility was never a prime consideration
in the plot. The remake hovers uneasily
between the precocious and authentic,
drawing inspiration from the struggles of
everyday life in a dream-driven chawl, but
pinning the to situations that are at once
absurd and audacious.
It helps that Anil Kapoor is a natural as a
caring doting father, and Divya Dutta as his
wife looks every inch of the middle-class
Maharashtrian housewife and mother.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is every bit the
pampered diva who treats the besotted
kidnapper (Rajkummar Rao) like her pet
poodle.
All this would have qualified as a satire on
middle-cass yearnings. But the joke on the
Stockholm Syndrome would probably not
work even in Denmark.
What works is the film's integrity, its
intentions are fully bonafide. The daughter's
ridicule at a musical reality show has a ring
of truth about it.So does the furious disdain
the daughter shows towards her father.
Eventually, if you sit through the ordeal of
watching Rajkummar Rao romance the
stunning Ms Rai Bachcchan in an
abandoned industrial factory with only her
pet dog for company, Fanney Khan' is a
heartwarming ode to life, Lata Mangeshkar,
Mohd Rafi and Sheila Ki Jawani. Effervescent
and emotional, it is an effective antidote to
the pain of existence.

https://www.thestatesman.com/entertainment/bollywood/fanney-khan-heartwarming-ode-fathers-dream-1502668684.html.