FIDA (2004)
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Producer: Tips
Director: Ken Ghosh
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Fardeen Khan
Music: Anu Malik
Lyrics: Sameer
RS RATING: 5/10
Background:
Director Ken Ghosh made the surprise blockbuster Ishq Vishk with Shahid Kapoor and Amrita Rao. He has a bigger heroine in the form of Kareena in the follow-up Fida, not to forget Fardeen Khan too. However lets not forget both Fardeen and Kareena are minuses when it comes to hits...
Synopsis:
Jai (Shahid Kapoor) meets (Neha) Kareena Kapoor and falls madly in love. He’s a young enthusiastic lad and wants to make a successful name for himself, as well as pleasing Neha and making her happy. In the meantime there is a Don (Akhilendra Mishra) who has a lot of money, which has been stolen by someone who transfers the money into a bank abroad. The don wants to kill the man who committed the crime.
Now Neha comes to Jai with a sob story that she needs crores of rupees for her sick father. Jai is ready to do anything for the money and meets the suave Vikram Verma (Fardeen Khan). Vikram is the guy who has robbed the money from the Don and tells Jai to take the wrap for the crime…in return he gets the money! Jai agrees and therefore the angry don wants him killed before the courts get him.
Things get even worse when Jai realises the shocking truth…he’s been set-up by Vikram and Neha!
Critique:
Whilst the production team have been calling Fida original and different, its sadly ended up being a bad movie. The first half is boring (why have three songs in thirty minutes?), although the film does pick up in the second half.
The performances are probably the highlight of the film. Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor are good, while Fardeen Khan isn’t too bad either. These three performances are the only reason why you should see the film.
Akhilendra Mishra is too loud for one to comprehend.
The music is catchy and the visuals are good. The cinematographer does deserve a pat on the back for sometimes managing to camouflage the director's mistakes.
After an Ishq Vishk, the audience doesn’t expect Ken Ghosh to make a film like this one. Even though the film has the tag ‘not all stories have perfect ending’, this one does not have a good beginning either, let alone perfect! Shahid and Kareena do look good together and the chemistry works till the Vikram-Neha nexus is exposed during the interval. After that, the chemistry looks so unreal.
SPOLIER ALERT: DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW THE SURPRISE ENDING!
Shahid Kapoor kills Kareena Kapoor in the end before he dies himself. So sad! Fardeen Khan donates the entire money to an orphanage so that he doesn't end up being the villain of the piece. And there is no Salman Khan in the film!
Reviewed by: Qamar Zaman
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