We meet Zooni Ali Beg (Kajol), a blind, spirited Kashmiri street performer with a lust for life. On a trip to Delhi, she meets Rehan Qadri (Aamir Khan), a charming, flirtatious, and irresponsible tourist guide. Their chemistry is electric. In a whirlwind romance straight out of a fairy tale, they marry. However, tragedy strikes on their wedding night when a bomb blast separates them. Zooni loses her eyesight (though she gains vision through surgery), but she loses Rehan, who is presumed dead.

Seven years later. Zooni is now a single mother living in the militancy-hit valleys of Kashmir. She has raised her son, Rehan Jr., with stories of a heroic, dead father. Enter a new character: Rehan Qadri, but not as the lover she remembers. He is now revealed as a hardened, ruthless terrorist mastermind.

In 2024, as we look at the world, which is arguably more polarized and violent than in 2006, Fanaa feels more relevant than ever. It is a story about the impossibility of separating the personal from the political. It asks: Do we own the sins of those we love?