x- men 3 . fanaa

there is no way an x – men movie can go wrong. this time a few new characters beast , juggernaut and angel, while most of the earlier characters are either killed off in the plot line or are disappeared (where was nghtcrawer?) mystique is as sexy as ever and when jean grey becomes the phoenix, famke jannsen finally gets to be as hot as she is supposed to be.

like the other x-men films its not only a good guy bashing up the bad guy film. as a cure is found for a so-called deformation or illness called the mutant gene, the mutant word is divided into those who want the cure to ‘fit in’ to society and those who oppose the idea that mutantness is a disease at all. it is a mutant – leech- who has these power sucking powers. magneto is for violence and xavier for diplomacy. the love stories- the wolverine/phoenix; ice-man/rogue also turn up now and then.

it is a very dark end to the series- there does not seem to be any way to revive the franchise as most of the major characters have either been killed off or have lost their powers. that is too bad.

since it was politically appropriate for me to see it- to protest against its ban in gujarat- i had to see fanaa. i was ruing the decision half way through the film when the first half crawled to almost a halt with close to eve teasing man handling by aamir of kajol the blind woman who loves him. they keep darting off shayari to one another in front of delhi monument lit in winter light (morning or evening). very pretty and very boring. then suddenly in the second half a james bond movie begins only to peter out into another family drama with a song about tongue twisters. at the end of the film, it all comes together though- as soon as kajol realizes who aamir really is. its mostly of kajol that i could sit thorough the film. she is as beautiful as ever.

the music is mediocre to bad except for chand sifarish; an the movie often looks too blandly pretty to be effective.