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The trailer of Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai, and Rajkumar Rao starrer Fanney Khan is out and it seems Bollywood is becoming more real with its representations on screen.
Anil Kapoor is Fanney Khan, a struggling musician from a ’90’s orchestra, living in a Mumbai chawl. His dream is to see his daughter, Lata Sharma, (played by Pihu Sharma) become a famous singer. However, when Lata comes to perform on stage, she is taunted for being overweight. A girl from the audience calls her moti (fatso).
Anil Kapoor is determined to help his daughter realize her dream and towards that end, he thinks of launching a singles album for Lata. But since he doesn’t have the financial capability to invest in the same, he takes Rajkumar Rao’s help to kidnap a famous singer, Baby Singh (played by Aishwarya Rai), in order to extort money from her. What follows seem to be a friendship between the kidnappers (who are anything but menacing) and Baby.
Anil Kapoor’s daughter is a plus sized girl whose talent gets overlooked by the society which is critical of women who aren’t thin enough for their liking. I loved the fact that a mainstream Bollywood movie wanted to bring such a topic to the fore and explore it when once upon a time, Bollywood itself was known for its fat shaming jokes.
Another heartwarming fact about the movie is that the father struggles to help his daughter reach for her dreams. It is indeed lovely to see that instead of being a patriarchal stereotype, this father wants to give all the opportunities to his daughter to shine, even at the cost of kidnapping someone!
The trailer of Fanney Khan seems to deal with a refreshing topic in a real way. This movie might help in taking Bollywood one step further towards the representation of actresses with all body sizes.
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Neena was the sole caregiver of Amma and though one would think that Amma was dependent on her, Neena felt otherwise.
Neena inhaled the aroma that emanated from the pan and took a deep breath. The aroma of cumin interspersed with butter transported her back to the modest kitchen in her native village. She could picture her father standing in the kitchen wearing his white crisp kurta as he made delectable concoctions for his only daughter.
Neena grew up in a home where both her parents worked together in tandem to keep the house up and running. She had a blissful childhood in her modest two-room house. The house was small but every nook and cranny gave her memories of a lifetime. Neena’s young heart imagined that her life would follow the same cheerful course. But how wrong she was!
When she was sixteen, the catastrophic clutches of destiny snatched away her parents. They passed away in a road accident and Neena was devastated. Relatives thronged her now gloomy house and soon it was decided that she should be married off.
Women today don’t want to be in a partnership that complicates their lives further. They need an equal partner with whom they can figure out life as a team, playing by each other’s strengths.
We all are familiar with that one annoying aunty who is more interested in our marital status than in the dessert counter at a wedding. But these aunties have somehow become obsolete now. Now they are replaced by men we have in our lives. Friends, family, and even work colleagues. It’s the men who are worried about why we are not saying yes to one among their clans. What is wrong with us? Aren’t we scared of dying alone? Like them?
A recent interaction with a guy friend of mine turned sour when he lectured me about how I would regret not getting married at the right time. He lectured that every event in our lives needs to be completed within a certain timeframe set by society else we are doomed. I wasn’t angry. I was just disappointed to realize that annoying aunties are rapidly doubling in our society. And they don’t just appear at weddings or family functions anymore. They are everywhere. They are the real pandemic.
Let’s examine this a little closer.
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