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26 Friday Friday, August 3, 2018 Lifestyle | Movies Film review The journey of Fanney Khan By Abigail Mathias part, its brilliant. The role of Prashantwas written “Aishwarya Rai Bachchan also believed in the keeping legendary actor Anil Kapoor in mind.” character,” says Atul. We joke about how he’s on e was one of the silliest guys in college, The script is written by Hussain Dalal. a first name basis with all the former Miss World. walking around with a red bandana singing “This is a small film,” insists the first-time di- “When I first narrated the story, I was very nerv- HKishore Kumar songs. At least that’s how I rector. “It looks big now. We didn’t have a lot of ous about her accepting the part. As we discussed remember my friend, Atul Manjrekar. Cut to 20 money when we began. As one of the producers, the script, she loved it. I wanted to highlight the years later. And now Atul is the director of a major Anil Kapoor became a big support system for the whole-body shaming aspect and she really liked Bollywood film, a musical drama, called ‘Fanney film.” The other producer, Bhushan Kumar has that. She saw an opportunity to speak about it Khan’. The film stars leading actors Anil Kapoor, also supported the film tremendously. through the film,” he says. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Rajkumar Rao. Thankfully Atul is still the pun cracker I remember, Atul’s wife, Smitha Baliga is the co-producer except he is clearly in another league.
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