A remake of the 2000 Belgian film Everybody's Famous!, it stars Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Rajkummar Rao in lead roles.

The film follows Kapoor as the titular character, the middle-aged father of a young, aspiring, and overweight teenage girl whom he pushes to be a singer.

After the shooting was disrupted in April 2018 over producer KriArj Entertainment's non-payment of dues, Bhushan Kumar of T-Series took over the entire production.

Prashant Kumar Sharma (Anil Kapoor), a part-time vocalist in an orchestra, who is popularly known as Fanney Khan, dreams of becoming a singer but circumstances prevent him from being one.

She is a fan of Baby Singh (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan), a famous superstar singer, who is tired of her life and wants a break.

He calls his best friend Adhir Sinha (Rajkummar Rao) and tells him that he is kidnapping Baby to release an album of his daughter.

While wearing a mask of Rajnikanth, Prashant asks Baby's manager Karan Kakkad (Girish Kulkarni) to release an album of his daughter.

Lata is excited about her own album, and after recording, she talks about her experience, leading Kakkad to realize that her father is the kidnapper and is the famous Fanney Khan.

In June 2016, it was announced that Anil Kapoor would play the lead role in a Rakesh Omprakash Mehra production, which was tentatively titled Fanney Khan.

[6] The original was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 73rd Academy Awards, and follows the relationship between a father and her teenage girl, whom he forces to be a singer.

[5] Prernaa Arora of KriArj Entertainment wanted Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to play the character and directly approached her.

[8] Arjun N. Kapoor of KriArj conveyed that the film dealt with a father-daughter relationship and said, "Fanney Khan is a very emotional story that needs to be told.

[14] On the same day, Mehra publicly revealed that Rajkummar Rao would play the role opposite Rai through his Twitter handle.

[27] In April 2018, filming was stalled by unpaid crew members,[28] becoming the fourth time a KriArj Entertainment production was entangled in a financial controversy.

[29] KriArj had had to part ways with Parmanu (2018), Kedarnath and Batti Gul Meter Chalu after in light of similar issues.

[32] Rai's introduction song, titled "Mohabbat", was choreographed by Frank Gatson Jr., who had previously worked with Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce and Rihanna, among others.

[42] After the release of Fanney Khan's trailer and poster in June 2018, Vashu Bhagnani sent a legal notice to its producers for not crediting him as the distributor and co-producer of the film.

[44] In a hearing that took place in July 2018, the Delhi High Court restrained Vashu Bhagnani from interfering in the distribution and release of Fanney Khan.