FAN Movie Review

FAN Movie Review

  4:20 PM    My Little World !!!

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FAN was one of the much awaited movie of 2016. The King Khan's double role and Maneesh Sharma's direction (whose previous works such as Band Baaja Baaraat, Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl, Sudh Desi Romance were well appreciated) were factors that added hype for the movie.

The movie starts in Delhi where Gaurav Chadana (Shah Rukh Khan), a die hard fan of Aryan Khanna (also played by Shah Rukh Khan) wins a local talent show by imitating the scenes and songs of his idol Aryan Khanna. He decides to show the Best Actor trophy to his super star on his birthday. Gaurav travels to Mumbai without a train ticket and stays in room number 205 at Delight Hotel just like his superstar Aryan Khanna did when he first reached Mumbai.

Gaurav reaches Aryan Khanna's residence (which appears to be Mannat - the actual residence of Shah Rukh Khan). However he could hardly show the trophy to his idol in between the thousand of fans just like him and the security guards in front of Mannat . Disappointed Gaurav watches a news that Sid Kapoor, a fellow actor, has plans to take legal action against Aryan Khanna for slapping him at his birthday party. This makes the fan angry and manages to get into Sid Kapoor's cabin and threatens him for an apology to Aryaan Khanna. The Fan records the apology and uploads in the internet. When Aryan Khanna comes to know about the fact behind the apology video from his personal assistant Sunania, he considers it as a crime. Aryaan Khanna sends his fan to jail where he is mercifully beaten. Aryan meets Gaurav secretly in jail and declares that he is not a fan. Gaurav is shattered and heartbroken. He spends two days in jail silently and returns home as an entirely new person. He burns all the photos and wallpapers he had of Aryan Khanna and confirms himself that the superstar will make an apology to him because people like him are the reason behind the success of Aryan Khanna. This is where the real story starts (and where the excitement ended for me)

Being a SRK fan I was eager to watch this movie. It was the movie about every individual who idolizes the superstar. The movie conveys that fandom is acceptable but extreme obsession is dangerous and is never encouraged by anyone. The first half of the movie is brilliantly crafted. It makes us glued to the movie. Unfortunately the second half did not impress me that much. As much as the first half was good, the second half was that much worse. First half is realistic and interesting whereas second half becomes fake and boring.The fan who calls himself Junior Aryan Khanna , were given a slightly different look with projected teeth in the first half. In the second half somehow Junior Aryan Khanna manages to look exactly like the Senior and nobody identifies that he is fake. The second half actually disturbed me because of the fact that too many unrealistic things where happening. May be I was disturbed because the movie has created a high bench mark in its first one hour and dropped drastically in the remaining movie.

One thing we have to admit is that SRK has given a mind-blowing performance,  especially the character of Gaurav (the fan) is portrayed very well. The body language and mannerism of Gaurav is absolutely fresh and different from normal SRK character . I even doubted that it was the Shah Rukh Khan itself or not. The movie is about SRK vs SRK and its exciting to watch. The movie would have been brilliant only if the second half had the same standard the initial part of the movie had!

I would go for 2.5 out of 5. (Average)

Movie             : FAN
Director         : Maneesh Sharma
Producer        : Aditya Chopra (Yash Raj Films)

Cast               : Shah Rukh Khan as Aryan Khanna / Gaurav                     Chandna (dual role),Waluscha de Sousa as Aryan's wife, Sayani Gupta as Sunaina, Aryan's secretary, Shriya Pilgaonkar as Neha, Deepika Amin as Gaurav's mother, Yogendra Tiku as Gaurav's father

Music           : Vishal Shekar
Story            : Maneesh Sharma
Screenplay  : Habib Faisal
Language    : Hindi