Finding Fanny is a 2014 English/Hindi satirical film, directed and written by Homi Adajania, produced by Dinesh Vijan under Maddock Films and presented by Fox Star Studios. The film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Pankaj Kapur, Deepika Padukone and Arjun Kapoor.

It is the story of five rather dysfunctional characters who live in the quaint sleepy village of Pocolim, nestled deep in the interiors of Goa, India. Pocolim is a village where pointless conversations are a way of life. Nothing ever really happens here and the people of Pocolim, well, they just exist. One night, the old postman Ferdie (Naseeruddin Shah), receives a letter that is slipped under his door.

He realises that it is the letter he had written 46 years ago to the love of his life, Stefanie ‘Fanny’ Fernandes (Anjali Patil), asking for her hand in marriage. To his utter shock, he discovers that it had never been delivered. All these years Ferdie has lived a life of melancholy and regret, believing that Stefanie had rejected him. He decides to find his beloved Fanny (as he fondly called her) and tell her the truth. Where would she be after 46 years? Dead? Happily married? Would she even remember him? Or is Stefanie Fernandes merely a figment of Ferdie’s imagination?

Four colourful characters from the village join Ferdie on his adventure under random pretexts, though in actuality everyone just wants a distraction from their mundane lives: a young virgin widow (Deepika Padukone), a bitter mechanic (Arjun Kapoor), a belligerent artist (Pankaj Kapur) and the obnoxious, self-appointed ‘lady’ of Pocolim (Dimple Kapadia). They encounter various hilarious and moving events along the way that will change all their lives forever.

The film had its premiere in India on Monday, 1 September and releases worldwide on Friday, 12 September. It has also been selected to be screened at 19th Busan International Film Festival in October.

Finding Fanny releases at Ster-Kinekor Gateway in Durban, The Zone@Rosebank and Carnival City in Johannesburg, Brooklyn in Pretoria and Cavendish in Cape Town on Friday, 12 September. Bookings are now open.

To view the official trailer of Finding Fanny, click here.