Fanaa – Im Sturm der Liebe (2006)

Fanaa – Im Sturm der Liebe: Directed by Kunal Kohli. With Aamir Khan, Kajol, Rishi Kapoor, Tabu. A sweet blind girl Zooni meets a flirty Rehan. She ignores her friends’ warnings. It’s her time to discover life. Is she making the right love choice?

“The second half of this movie seems to be largely inspired by u0026quot;Eye of the Needleu0026quot; which I had watched twenty years back. It starred Donald Sutherland. u0026quot;Eye of the Needleu0026quot; has the backdrop of World War II. A German spy gets marooned on a desolate British island colony, probably Gibraltar. He falls in love with a woman who stays on the island with her crippled husband and their son. She too falls for the hero. When she learns about the hero being a spy she mercilessly shoots him. The tag-line of the movie ran like u0026#39;it is easy to love an enemy but difficult to kill a loveru0026#39; (not verbatim). Replace the island by Kashmir made inaccessible in winter. Replace the German spy by lost husband terrorist. Crippled husband by alcoholic father. Presto, you get u0026quot;Fanaau0026quot;.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story writer (who won a Filmfare award for this movie!) owes us an explanation.”