Fida

Starring: Fardeen Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor
Producer: Kumar Taurani/ Tips Films
Director: Ken Ghosh
Music: Anu Malik

Lyrics: SameerJai (Shahid Kapoor), who wishes to meet the girl of his dreams, actually meet her one fine day and falls for her. She is Neha (Kareena Kapoor). If you want to know why, well, it's a case of love at first sight! The girl reciprocates, after some cajoling, and the two lovebirds are supposed to live happily thereafter.

There is another plot in this love story. An unidentified person hacks into the bank account of an underworld don (Akhilendra Mishra) and transfers the huge sum to his account. The police is on the trail of the hacker, so is the underworld don.

Here, Neha tells Jai that her father was a criminal and had borrowed Rs 60 million from the underworld. It is up to her to return the money within three days or be dead.                                            

Jai decided to rescue her. With the intention of robbing a bank, he visits it where he sees a fellow, withdrawing a large sum of money and decides to rob him. The man is Vikram (Fardeen Khan). Jai follows him and attempts to rob him, but Vikram captures him. The film takes a twist!

Vikram strikes a deal with him. Jai will tell the cops that he is the hacker and Vikram will give him the Rs. 6 crores that he requires so desperately. The former agrees. He is arrested by the cops and is about to be produced in court when the underworld don's henchmen attack him. Jai manages to escape, and rushed to Neha's house. He is shocked by what he sees...

Fida is much better than some of the other movies released this year. Editing is sharp and cinematography is superb. However, the screenplay lacks momentum, and the film fails to grip the viewer in the beginning.

The first half is wasted on building up a love story. The second half is much better, and the climax has a twist in it. Music by Anu Malik is definitely above average.

As film critic Mayank Shekhar puts it: "Ghosh's Fida is vaguely reminiscent of 'Ajnabee' (2001) and 'Ek Hasina Thi' (2004). Except, horrendously haphazard, unbelievably unsophisticated and mindlessly meandering, it shares neither the energy of Abbas-Mustan's admirable escapade, nor the slickness of Sriram Raghavan's street caper." However, the hot romantic pair of Shahid and Kareena is the biggest plus of the film apart from stunning locales and good music. Worth a watch!