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Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic is released now and it is not doing well at the box office. But I think thats how they decided to market the movie. Since it is a fun family comedy and released during summer vacations when schools are off and children are bored playing all day. So they would tell each other about the fun new movie they watched and then other children would take their parents to theaters and thats how it will pick up momentum. A friend of mine has seen the movie and she thinks that it is a wonderful movie specially for children, families and romantic comedy lovers (I don’t trust her much when it comes to selecting my movies).

Rani Mukherjee is playing the role of an angel who is sent to earth to help Saif Ali Khan. Saif is playing the role of a busy businessman who suddenly becomes responsible for taking care of four orphan children.

There are lots of similarities between Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic and Hum Tum. Both has Rani Mukherji and Saif Ali Khan, both are filmed in bright colors at trendy locations, and both use animation. Since I haven’t seen the movie yet so I can’t say how they are using the animation, graphics and visual effects. But I think that since movie is about magic so Kunal must have used animation to create magic.

This movie is really important for Rani Mukherji’s career. Her last two movies (Saawariya, Laaga Chunari Mein Daag) were big disappiontment among the masses and the critics. Media has already started talking about her getting engaged with Aditya Chopra. Which is a sign that Rani’s career is about to touch the deadly lowest level. Same thing happened with her predecessors Madhuri and Sri Devi.

I was really very excited about Fanaa. It has Aamir Khan and Kajol, directed by Kunal Kohli and produced by Aditya Chopra. What else a bollywood lover can ask for? The movie turns out to be a below average flick. The story line was old and left me thinking that why Kunal Kohli, Aamir Khan, Aditya Chopra were so excited about this story? It is not like that no body has ever told this story in bollywood before. There are several movies about terrorists trying to break India into peices and then falling in love with a charming Indian guy or girl. So there was nothing new in this story.

Script, well to be honest it sounded like the dialogues were written for the soul purpose of using the word fanaa and explaining the sufi term. They had to do it because story itself was very unrealistic and director was not talented enough to deliever the massage by narrating a story, he needed couplets. dialogues were fictional and it felt like we are reading some novel or something word by word. Film is a different media and things that sound great on paper do not always look great on the screen.

Set and costumes were awfully boring. Rishi Kapoor’s character looked a lot like his role in Hum Tum. Tabu’s dialogue delivery was terrible. The movie is a must watch for Aamir and Kajol fans but I don’t think that anyone would like to see it twice, it is that boring.

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Have you checked out the soundtrack of Fanaa? Is this amazing or what? My goodness I can not believe I am hearing some quality music from bollywood after a long time. Music of Fanaa is composed by Jatin Lalit and the lyrics have been penned down by Prasoon Joshi. It has seven tracks each one of them is unique and brilliant. Fanaa is a Sufi term which means Destroyed in Love, since Sufism in Indian sub-continent has a lot to do with Qawwali so there is a qawali which makes and tries to explain the term Fanaa. It is one of the most blood boiling qawalis Indian Cinema has ever produced. To further emphasize the term destroyed in love there is an instrumental theme titled ‘Destroyed in Love’ and a remixed track ‘Fanaa for you’ by Dj Aqeel. Aamir Khan and Kajol provided there voices for two songs; ‘Mere Haath Mein’ and ‘Chanda Chamke’.

Songs of Fanaa can be listened and downloaded in MP3 and Real format here. Complete lyrics of all songs in Fanaa in Hindi along with English translation are available here.

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One of the highly anticipated movies this year, Fanaah has Aamir Khan and Kajol paired together for the first time. The movie also marks Kajol’s come back. Directed by Kunal Kohli and produced by Yash and Aditya Chopra. Expected to be released in May this year. Jatin Lalit provided music while Shibani Bathija wrote the script for the story written by Kunal Kohli. Aamir Khan and Kajol are quite enough to attract crowds but this movie has more. It has Rishi Kapoor, Tabu and Kiron Kher. Rishi Kapoor and Kiron Kher has already worked in Kunal’s previous movie Hum Tum and did they act brilliantly, oh well they are the finest actors available in Indian film industry right now. Tabu is appearing for the first time in a movie produced by Yashraj films, Tabu is critically acclaimed actress and has won Nation Award for her role in the movie Chandni Bar. There is no doubt that her role in this movie would be a great one other wise she might not have crossed the border that exists between sophisticated movies and mainstream commercial movies.

The movie was shot in Delhi and Poland. The scenes that were supposed to be shot in Kashmir were captured in Poland due to security concerns.

Story

Kajol is playing the role of Zooni Ali Beg a blind Kashmiri girl who wants to discover the world on her own. On her way to this discovery she meets Rehan Qadri (Aamir Khan) who is a tour guide who travels from city to city to do sight seeing and to flirt with women. Rehan fascinated by Zooni, takes her to Delhi and tries to make her see the city and it’s many colors. Zooni falls in love with Rehan but she doesn’t know about darker side of Rehan.

We currently don’t know the exact plot of the movie but it is said that Aamir is playing the role of a terrorist. Rishi Kapoor would be playing the role of Kajol’s father.

Trailor

Exclusive trailors and promos for the movie are available here.

Music

Aamir Khan and Kajol has recorded songs in their own voice for the movie. Aamir has done it before but this is Kajol’s first time to sing for a movie. The songs “Mere Haath Mein” and “Chanda Chamke” have been sung by them along with other known singers like Sonu Nigam, Babul Supriyo, Mahalaxmi Iyer and Sunidhi Chauhan. This movie is featuring music directed by Jatin and Lalit together and it is the last time they have worked together. The track Subhan Allah which can be listened in the background of the above given trailer, is a qawali and when mixed the historic monuments of Delhi the effect is mind blowing.

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