Director- abhishek kapoor
Cast- aditya roy kapoor, tabu, katrina kaif, aditi roy kapur, rhaul bhatt
Except fir a new scenes, katrina kaif-aditya roy kapur starrer fitoor comes across as a rather superficial affairs and a disapointing adaptation of charles dicknes great expectation. For one, there is over dramatisation of situations. The screenplay flags and falls to engage the audience daspite heart breaking performance by aditya and tabu.
Noor( aditya roy kapoor) lives firdaus( katrina kaif) but has never been able to quite express himself. He meets a lady after years and discovers that the intensity of his feelings have not reduced and she pkays along. What would you expect from a bollywood hero to do? Confess live and deliver some high-octane dramatic dialogues? Thats not what u get in abhishek kapoor’s fitoor. Our protagonist Noor, looks at his ladylove with such intensity, is nervous around her in a cute way and acts much like a teenager around his crush. Relatable?
Aditya plays pips character from the novel, an aspiring artist Noor, while tabu plays the indian version of miss havisham - begum hazrat . katrina steps in as the frosty estella, called firdaus in the bollywood adaptation.
Since fitoor is set in kashmir, the state provides a beautiful canvas on which the story can be painted. Cinematographer anay goswami deserves credit for capturing kashmir’s gorgeous exquisiteness in all its details - the white snow covered mountains, red chinar leaves and the grey of winters. Amit trivedi’s soulful music enamours us, surrounded as we are with so much surreal beauty. However, fitoor fallsbshort of fulfilling any other gr8 expectation we had beyond showcase the wonderful beauty of the valley.
Aditya and tabu undoubtedly the best in fitoor. While you are likely to fall in love with noor( aditya) pits and hate is what tabu’s begum hazrat evokes. You detest noor for his stupidity but his haunting looks and and hopeless yet passionate love makes your heart melt. He does not express his love for katrina. Except for one scene where he is drunk however each frame involving the lead pair is laden with romance and his intense, lovelorn facial expressions lend much weight.
The romantic scene remains so till the time he focus is on aditya but you lose interest the moment the camera shifts to katrina. Not just because her character is lest interested in aditya, but because her dialogues sound fake and katrina’s onedimensional acting fails to bring across the passion even in the most intimate of scenes.
The ending makes for another dampener in the entire journey thoughout the movie firdaus clearly has no feeling for noor the cruel estella that she is supposed to be. She runs back to him not because she loves him but because se is in love with the idea of love.
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