DeepikaPadukoneFC#64#Entertaineroftheyear 2013 IIFFA - Page 90

It should come as no surprise that I'm quite the Deepika fan, and I've been anxiously awaiting her upcoming films after her streak of box office hits in 2013. Her next Bollywood feature appearance will be as part of the star ensemble in Homi Adajania'supcoming film Finding Fanny. The trailer for the movie had its world premiere earlier this month and looks promising:

The movie also stars Arjun Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Naseeruddin Shah, and Pankaj Kapur, and all five of these "oddballs" embark on a quest in the heart of Goa to find the local post man Ferdie's (Naseeruddin Shah) long lost love, Stefanie Fernandes aka Fanny. As the trailer shows, Finding Fanny doesn't look like it'll be your standard song-dance-dishoom Bollywood movie. In fact, the entire movie is reportedly English, and it seems like Finding Fanny's idiosyncrasies caused significant delays in the production of the movie.

Homi Adajania allegedly had almost completed this movie's script right around when his directorial debut Being Cyrus was released in 2005, but he put a hold on Finding Fanny due to concerns that it might be "too offbeat." After some initial casting hiccups (Deepika and Arjun Kapoor only came into the picture after the movie was turned down initially by both Sonam Kapoor and Imran Khan, respectively) " Finding Fanny's production finally began in October 2013.

From the seemingly unique story to the veteran actors to the new pairing of Deepika and Arjun to the reunion of Homi Adajania and Deepika after their hit 2012 film Cocktail " I've got some high expectations for this movie. Here's hoping that Finding Fanny doesn't disappoint me when it premieres on September 12, 2014.

Our pick of the trailer this month is Homi Adajania's Finding Fanny. He has earlier directed Being Cyrus and Cocktail. What makes this trailer special is its quirky absurdist humour that instantly connects with its target audience, the multiplex goer.

With three legends, Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur and Dimple Kapadia in their unique avatars, along with the mad-looking Arjun Kapoor with the beautiful Deepika Padukone, the trailer certainly makes you want to see the film. My favourite in the trailer is Pankaj Kapur ogling at Dimple and the shot of her hiding her slit skirt at the back with her hand fan. It seems to be a mad film made by a somewhat mad bawa himself.

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Interestingly, while in the film Fanny is the name of a girl, in America, it is the slang for bum and, in England the slang for vagina, apart from the fact that the famous Italian footballer Mario Balotelli's girlfriend is Fanny Neguesha. Talking to us about what makes the trailer work, the filmmaker said, "This film has come out of the warmth of my heart and the madness in my head but I think what makes this trailer work is that it's quirky, absurdist humour has struck a chord with people who like this kind of cinema and has thus created a word of mouth for the film. The sweetest message I have got is Everyday I get up seeing the trailer as it puts a smile on my face before I start the rest of the day.'" Talking about the name Fanny, he said, "Tomorrow I could make a film called Finding Dick, which could be about people searching for a guy called Richard (Dick is the pet name for Richard in the US). In our film Fanny is the pet name for Stefanie."