Fanaa (2006)
Choices... to choose between right or wrong is simple, but what defines one's life is the decision between the greater of two goods or the lesser of two evils. This is the advice Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) receives from her father just as she is about to venture out into the world on her own for the very first time. Little does she know that these very words will shape her life. Zooni, a blind Kashmiri girl, Rehan Qadri (Aamir Khan), a local tour guide and an incorrigible flirt, who goes from city to city exploring their architecture and also the women. Her friends warn her against this good-for-nothing roadside Romeo, but she chooses to ignore them. She is not one to be protected. It is now her time to discover life, and love. Is this really the right choice? Rehan is fascinated by Zooni. He truly wants her to see life as it should be seen, in its many colors - and as he promises her, the time spent with him will be the most precious in all her life. Zooni sees Delhi, life and love like she never has, because of Rehan. What Zooni doesn't know is that Rehan has another side of his life that he has kept from her - something that won't only change her life, but also destroy it.
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Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol) is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels for the first time all alone. On her journey, she meets Rehan Quadri (Aamir Khan), a casanova and tour guide. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she still wants to experience the feeling of being in love for the first time, and spends time with him. They travel New Delhi and Rehan shows her the city and starts to develop feelings for her -- but he also keeps a very dark secret from her.
Zooni and Rehan decide to get married. Her mother Nafisa (Kiron Kher) and father Zulfikar Ali Beg (Rishi Kapoor) acquiesce to the marriage, and come in from Kashmir for the wedding. Meanwhile, the young couple visit an opthalmologist, who advises Zooni that her blindness may be surgically curable, though the operation has its risks. They decide to take the chance. Zooni asks Rehan to visit the Rashtrapati Bhawan (president's residence) to invite a friendly guard to their wedding. He says he'll go.
While still recovering from the successful surgery - and before she can see Rehan -- Zooni is told that Rehan has been killed in a terrorist bomb attack on Rashtrapati Bhawan. She is comforted by her parents who have arrived from Kashmir. Zooni feels she sent Rehan to his death in Rashtrapati Bhawan.
In reality, Rehan is Rehan Qadri, a Jehadi fighting to liberate the state of Kashmir from both India and Pakistan, the Free Kashmir movement. As grandson of the mastermind and leader of a key insurgent group, the Independent Kashmir Front (IKF), he is its most trusted operative. He has been plotting and executing terrorist strikes against these two countries, including the explosion in which he is reported to have died.
The insurgents are about to pull off a huge strike. With parts stolen from India, Pakistan and Russia, they hope build a nuclear explosive device. This device, capable of destroying a whole city -- New Delhi or Islamabad - they will use to pressure both countries into leaving Kashmir. A critical part is missing: the detonator or electronic "trigger" device. Rehan is deployed to bring in this trigger.
Meanwhile, the mourning and guilt-ridden Zooni returns to Kashmir and is delivered of a baby boy, whom she names Rehan for his father.
Rehan infiltrates an Indian army unit which is taking the trigger back to Delhi to safeguard it from being stolen by the insurgents. During transport by helicopter in a remote area, he drugs his colleagues, takes the trigger, destroys the helicopter and escapes by parachute. Maya Tyagi (Tabu), a key intelligence operative, realizes his identity, but cannot deploy forces quickly enough to stop Rehan. He is wounded by the troops, but escapes. Tyagi orders a communications blackout in the area so that he will not be able to contact the IKF.
Exhausted, wounded, and incommunicado, with a storm building, he seeks shelter in a remote house. He is shocked to find that the house belongs to Zooni and her father. Neither recognises him and he attempts to remain incognito. The child Rehan is very taken with the man, and he develops an affection for the little boy. Later, Rehan admits to his identity, though unable to explain what he has done for the seven years since they parted, or why he played dead. Nevertheless, he still loves Zooni and she him, and her father marries them in a simple ceremony.
Soon afterward, through a TV broadcast, Zooni and her father both separately discover that Rehan is the terrorist for whom a manhunt is in progress. Her father tries to stop Rehan, taking him to an Army friend's house so he can use his radio transmitter and then attempting to shoot him. Instead, Rehan grapples with him and kills him by accident. He uses the radio to contact the IKF, then returns to Zooni's house. The IKF tell him they will send a pick-up helicopter the next morning. Then, when the army officer discovers Rehan in his home, Rehan kills him.
Zooni finds her father dead, floating by under the ice in the river from which Zooni and Rehan Jr are collecting water , and when Rehan returns home, and tells her that her father is at the army officer's house, suspects that Rehan killed him. She takes the "trigger" to her father's friend's house, and radios the army. Tyagi appraises her of the seriousness of the danger, and the risk to hundreds of thousands of lives should the IKF get the device. Before the police or army arrives, Rehan finds her, takes the "trigger", and tries to take it to his grandfather who is arriving by helicopter. Unable to stop him any other way, Zooni kills him, although she still loves him. Meanwhile the IKF helicopter arrives at the same time as the Army helicopter, and Tyagi shoots the insurgent leader.
The final scene shows Zooni and little Rehan laying flowers on the graves of Rehan Senior and Mr. Ali Beg. Zooni tells him that it's easy to choose between good and bad, but life sometimes presents two bad choices or two good ones.
2006-07-17 21:24:03
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