At some moments it seems that we are watching Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara again minus those exquisite breathtaking visuals, but Finding Fanny is different compared to that Hrithik-Katrina's blockbuster. Not because it didn't have that picture perfect shots in those appreciable short runtime of 100 minutes but because it lacked the finesse in displaying the solutions of personal problems, which Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara presented perfectly.

Your heart aches to watch a Hindi film where the location matters, where the stars stay within the parameters of their characters, where the humour comes through everyday situations, where the dialogue feels real and so do the emotions. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's a cause for celebration. Finding Fanny is one such film. It's a simple film with a threadbare plot line - a group of misfits travel together in search of lost love. But thanks to some superlative acting, you forget how thin the plot is and immerse yourself in the lives of the characters.

Set in the village of Pocouli, that the map doesn't mention either, the way of life and it's pace is as you wish for. Angie, a young widow lives with her mother in law Rosie who is often referred to as the first lady of the village. Angie's best friend Freddie is the local post master who gets the undelivered letter he had once posted to hos lady love, Stephanie Fernandez proposing marriage to her.

For most part of this film, a bunch of fantastic actors are together in a frame, sitting in a blue beaten car, presumably to find Fanny but largely to give us a delightful dollop of entertainment. Set in a sleepy village Pocolim tucked somewhere in the interiors of Goa, 'Finding Fanny' lazes and lingers like a cat under the warm sun , as its inhabitants saunter about their unhurried, monotonous days in the most casual manner.

Imagine a puppet show as large as a village", says young widow Angie (Padukone) in an introductory voiceover. She attempts to nudge us into the idle world of a Goan village named Pocolim-an off-the-map giant retirement home where Angie is perhaps one of two surviving youngsters. The other one is enigmatic 'prodigal son' Savio (Kapoor)-the man she once loved, and her dead husband's bitter childhood friend.

Homi Adajania's uncanny ability to weave a narrative in a manner that forces your psyche to look for joy, even as it leaves your mind to ponder over the finer nuances of life, has resulted in the film called 'Finding Fanny'. How often have you thought of extending a helping hand to someone who is in need? Angelina aka Angie (Deepika Padukone) quietly makes you question the same, by helping an old man who is desperately in search of his ladylove.

Homi Adajania's Finding Fanny has survived all those censor controversies and is finally set to hit theatres on Friday. And if the film's line-up is anything to go by -- what with veteran actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia and Pankaj Kapoor sharing screen space with Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh, and all of them controlled by Being Cyrus director Homi Adajania -- this is one film that has figured on the to-do list of many. But does Finding Fanny live up to the expectations the pre-release expectations had raised?

'Finding Fanny' is fashioned like a serio-comic journey, featuring a wooly romantic, a lusty painter, a middle-aged matron, a lithe maiden, and a sulky young fellow. It is an unlikely bunch, getting together for an unlikely reason, and in the way of this kind of film, we are supposed to fall in love with the characters and their quirks, as they wind their way towards their destination and discovery.

To start with I am impressed with the fact the director who made a commercial masala film like Cocktail actually made this film. Finding Fanny is not a regular Bollywood film, it's for a very niche audience. Most filmmakers say that their films are different but take my word for it because this one is actually different.