‘Fanney Khan’ is a family comedy-drama inspired by the 2000 Dutch film, Everybody's Famous. Prashant Kumar Sharma (Anil Kapoor) is lovingly called "Fanney Khan" for he sings at orchestra parties and dreams to make his teenage daughter Lata Sharma (Pihu Sand) a singing star. To realize his dream Prashant along with his friend Adhir (Rajkummar Rao) kidnaps singing star Baby Singh (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan aka Sumitra Singh). What happens next forms the remaining part of this family musical drama.