![]() ![]() But after the recording he tries to act fresh with her, stopping short of touching her. Kakkad agrees and calls Lata for a recording. He doesn’t reveal that Lata is his own daughter though. He tells Kakkad to compose this song with Lata on vocals instead of the ransom. Prashant meets Kakkad with his face hidden behind a mask of Rajinikant and gives him a recording of a tune that he has been working on for his daughter’s big debut. ![]() 30 lakhs from Baby’s manager, who is hopping mad, as Baby hasn’t reached the recording studio for a big reality show that she is going to perform for. He sedates her with sleeping pills and takes her to his defunct factory and calls Adhir who is initially reluctant but soon complies. Suddenly while driving her, Prashant makes a devious plan of kidnapping her so he can ask for ransom to fulfil his dream. A few days later as luck would have it, Baby Singh miffed with her manager, storms out of her own car and hails Prashant’s cab. He doesn’t reveal this to his family but starts driving taxi to support them. One day, Prashant and Adhir suddenly lose their jobs because the factory shuts down. Lata on the other hand wants to become like fashionable singer Baby Singh (Aishwarya Rai), who herself is struggling with too much stardom and a creepy manager Kakkad (Girish Kulkarni), who wants her to compromise for money. This even as he continues to support and motivate Lata while his wife keeps reasoning with him to leave his obsession with stardom. She is always snapping at her father perhaps because he never made it beyond becoming a gulley ka Fanney Khan. Meanwhile, Lata grows up to be a good singer and performer, but often gets heckled on stage for her weight. ![]() His friend and confidante at work is Adhir (Rajkummar Rao) who often picks and drops him to work. To support his family, Prashant takes up a job in a factory. Prashant names her Lata with a dream that his daughter (Pihu Sand) will become the nation’s biggest singing superstar. Just when he is performing, he gets the news of his wife Kavita delivering a baby girl. Prashant is the lead singer of the local orchestra band called ‘Jhankaar’ earning the moniker Fanney Khan. The film starts with a young Prashtant Kumar Sharma (Anil Kapoor) singing the iconic Shammi Kapoor number ‘Badan Pe Sitaare’ on stage in his modest south Mumbai neighborhood. Fanney Khan is the story of a father who wants to live his unfulfilled dream of becoming a singing sensation through his only daughter. Spoiler alert! Please do not read the following plot summary if you have not seen the film. ![]()
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