Fitoor: A Kashmiri tale of love and passion

The trailer of Rock On! fame director Abhishek Kapoor’s next venture, called Fitoor, is out on YouTube. Starring Katrina Kaif and Aditya Roy Kapur in the main lead, the movie is based in Kashmir.

Telling the tale of a Kashmiri artist Noor, played by Kapur, who falls in love with Firdaus (a red-haired Kaif) before discovering that there is more to her than what meets the eyes. Daughter of Begum (played by Tabu), she is not as easy to get as one would think, and how and why the conflict of Kashmir plays its part in the movie is what could make it a cinematographic gem, thanks to the surreal beauty of Kashmir.

The trailer starts with Kapur narrating how his younger self fell in love with Firdaus when they were kids. Noor is an upcoming artist, supported well by his lady love who wants him to be presentable and gets disappointed when he comes to an exhibition wearing tattered shoes.

Enters Begum, the ravishing Tabu, also sporting red hair, who has had some issues in her past love life, which explains why she tries to keep her daughter away from Noor. But just as we start to think that it’s another movie in which the lead pair would overcome their financial diversity and their parents’ disapproval, Noor can be seen saying this to Firdaus:

Doodh maangoge to kheer denge, Kashmir maangoge to cheer denge.

This is when Kashmir, and the long-standing conflict that it has with the Indian government, takes a character of her own in this movie. Seen with Kaif in this scene is Rahul Bhat, who was last seen in Ugly.

How maturely Kapoor has handled the sensitive topic, and how beautifully has he been able to showcase Kashmir in its true beauty is what makes the movie worth the wait. The music is binding, and as per the cinematography, let’s just say that you can’t take a bad picture in Kashmir.

As much as we love Tabu, we can never take it off our mind that the role was first offered to Rekha, who could have added a magnificent stroke of her own to this character. Not that Tabu won’t do justice to it; she has proved her mettle time and again and continues to be a respected actor, but there is something about this character that Rekha comes to our mind on its own, and we can’t help but wonder how beautiful she would have looked as Begum Hazrat.

Here’s the trailer:



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