You know how you sometimes can eat a meal in a fancy restaurant but come away feeling no satisfaction for having had it? That is somewhat how yours truly felt from having watched Fanny albeit having gone in with great expectations for a fine feast.
One can only hope that Dimple Kapadia’s huge posterior must have been a prosthetic one, and if not, well, then one wonders how she could have let herself go like that. But regardless of how real or artificial said posterior might be, I would venture to say that it was probably one of the more interesting elements of the film.
Which is surely saying very little, for the cast is indeed an impressive one. With character actors such as Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapur in the fore, not to mention Kapadia herself, alongside the young and beautiful likes of Deepika Padukone and her love interest Arjun Kapoor, one would expect to be sucked into a grand tale with fine acting. Alas, no matter how fine the acting, the tale itself was a very weak and shaky one, and by the end of it all, one is not sure if the appropriate reaction ought to be irritation, disappointment, or even mild anger. Because, how can it be that with such a lovely group of actors in a setting as picturesque as the small verdant towns of the western coastal state of Goa, could such drivel be drummed up.
The movie is all in English which is all fine and good, and perhaps the only interesting note that reflects the linguistic diversity of the country. And the other redeeming feature, of course, is the lovely landscape of Goa.
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