There is only one hero in Abhishek Kapoor’s Fitoor, a massively disappointing and bogus adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. And it’s not Aditya Roy Kapoor. It’s Kashmir.
The film, purported to be a romance between the bewitching Katrina Kaif and the besotted Aditya Roy Kapoor, romances just the Kashmir Valley. The rest is all mystery.
I recommend Fitoor be used to promote tourism in the Valley. As for Charles Dickens and Great Expectations, thankfully the author is not around to see how far his novel about forbidden love has been taken away from its roots.
Dickens’ title, as it turns out, proves prophetically ironic. You enter director Abhishek Kapoor’s snow-swept stunning world of stillness and turbulence, with a whole lot of expectations. You come away feeling cheated, betrayed and also angry for being led up the garden path - albeit a beautiful path lined with Chinar trees raining down their orange-coloured leaves with romantic fervor on lovers who are as handsome as can be.
But here is their heart?
It is easy to fall for Fitoor’s visual grace. But, where is the passionate love story that Katrina Kaif and Aditya Roy Kapoor promised in the posters and the musical pieces? Sure the two dance well together. But love is not a ballroom piece. Watching them trying to look intensely involved, I finally knew what a storm in a teacup meant.