MOVIE REVIEW: FAN

I went into ‘Fan’ with a great deal of trepidation, wondering how Maneesh Sharma’s new film would bring out: a Bollywood superstar playing a Bollywood superstar and his biggest fan. I thought that it could either be a Meta delight or just unpleasant.

This movie has extremely done well in the box office and is likely to be memorable for most, especially for shah ruhk khan fans. It is a wonderful, grasping, knowing performance of the actor which made it a blockbuster movie in the film industry.

 Fan may just well be an inward journey where a large celebrity persona meets his fan in a worse situation. In some ways ‘FAN’ is an adaptation of the king novel ‘MISERY’, which is part horror, thriller, and part a rumination on how obsessive fandom and the object of the all the worshipping is connected, and how when things go wrong and situation becomes worst.

This movie could connect to million hearts as it gives a clear message that how compulsive fandom disturbs star’s life. These notify the public that there is a limit to the fandom and star’s also have their private life wherein fans no rights to disturb it.

There's no place for the mandatory song-and-dance routine in FAN, since the narrative relies completely on drama and tension. On the whole, FAN has a brilliant first half, but loses track in the second hour, only to pick up again towards the pre-climax. According to me the writing should've been tighter, as the absence of music may also prove a stumbling block, but what works, and works big time, is the terrific act by SRK as the fan. And that's enough reason for you to watch this thriller movie FAN.

-Pavithraa Natarajan