Katrina Kaif Aditya Roy Kapur and Tabu Fitoor is devastatingly beautiful, thanks to director Abhishek Kapoors portrayal of Kashmir in it. However, underneath all the surreal beauty, this adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations falls short of fulfilling the great expectations people had from it.Centuries ago, Amir Khusro had said’Gar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast hameenast-o hameen-ast-o hameen-ast.’ Roughly translated to English, the couplet means’If there’s a paradise on earth / It is here, it is here, it is here.’ Emperor Jehangir then immortalised these two lines when Kashmir struck him numb and made him blurt them out, almost involuntarily.
Set against the backdrop of the Kashmir of autumn-winter, Fitoor lets your eyes feast on Kashmir till you no longer know what to do with such overwhelming beauty.
Based on Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, Noor(Aditya Roy Kapur) is the orphan Pip in this tale. Dickens’s Estelle is Firdaus(Katrina Kaif) here, and the eccentric, mercurial Miss Havisham is Tabu’s Begum Hazrat.
Noor, the Boy From Dal, is taken to the Begum’s palace on one winter day by his brother-in-law. His eyes chance upon Begum’s daughter Firdaus, and this pretty much changes the course of his life.
The heartbroken Begum notices Noor’s talent and realises that the boy is deeply infatuated with her daughter. Hazrat pushes him to make something out of himself by saying that that’s the only way he can accomplish the prize that is Firdaus.