Fitoor Review: Intense romance with artistic flavor

Story missed the storyline many times and its not that simple to collect all pieces easily. With a starcast that boasts of the stunning Katrina Kaif and the hunky Aditya Roy Kapur, whether FITOOR lives upto the “great expectations” or will it turn out to be a let-down, let’s analyze. However, their paths crossed at an auto expo in Delhi earlier this month, where the exes diligently stayed out of each other’s way (Mirror, February 4) with the organisers going so far as to arrange for separate entries and exits for them. Noor, who has a poor upbringing, is deeply infatuated with Firdaus (Tunisha Sharma), who belongs to an elite family in Kashmir and is Begum Hazrat’s adopted daughter.

The film has been released in 1,225 screens in India and 460 screens overseas. Fitoor has grabbed the audience attention with trailer. Haider too was an interpretation of Shakespear’s Hamlet, but was budgeted at nearly half the cost of Fitoor. The audience expects something big after framing up a beautiful love story. Check out Fitoor movie review, rating, public response here.

The film Fitoor – which means, Passion/Obsession, also stars Aditi Rao Hydari, Rahul Bhat, Akshay Oberoi, Lara Dutta, Suchitra Pillai, Andy Von Eich and Delbar Arya in supporting roles. The climax has been tiresome and the second half of Fitoor disappoints badly. Clearly, Abhishek thought writing Firdaus a backstory that takes her to London early on would justify Katrina Kaif’s accent, what it does, however, is appear lame and mismatched.

Tabu is a star; she nails her act to perfection.

Great Expectations, indeed! If you happened to have read Charles Dickens” bildungsroman, then you would know how a young boy travels through time to become a handsome man-his journey is full of ups and down and it is his huge “love’ which overpowers all his desires and aspirations. It has been transformed completely to suit the nativity of Bollywood and the director failed to script the film with interest.

But thanks to the outstanding cinematography (Anay Goswamy), the top-notch performances and a screenplay (Supratik Sen and Abhishek Kapoor) that steers clear of dramatic excess, Fitoor is never less than watchable.