Fan (2016)

Gaurav develops an obsession with a movie star who looks just like him. He goes to Mumbai to meet his idol, but he refuses to grant him five minutes of his time. Gaurav is enraged and plots to destroy his hero.

Director:

Maneesh Sharma

Writers:

Maneesh Sharma (story), Habib Faisal (screenplay)

Stars:

Shah Rukh Khan, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Carolina Main

3 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Shah Rukh Khan	...	Gaurav Chandna / Aryan Khanna
Shriya Pilgaonkar	...	Neha
Carolina Main	...	Cathy
Glenn Webster	...	Security
Sayani Gupta	...	Aryan Khanna's Legal Advisor
Atul Sharma	...	Tourist
Puja Panchkoty	...	Journalist
Manoj Anand	...	Red Carpet Guest / Paparazzi Photographer
Pamela Betsy Cooper	...	Red Carpet Guest
Tatiana Zarubova	...	Rich Guest
Euan Macnaughton	...	Arresting Police Officer Sgt646
Paul Blackwell	...	Police Officer
Vaunisha Kapoor	...	Media Jouralist
Zachary Coffin	...	Jail Inmate
Nisaro Karim	...	Journalist

Storyline

Gaurav a boy from Delhi is a die hard fan of Bollywood superstar Aryan Khanna. He comes to Mumbai to wish his idol on his Birthday, but over there things got worst and Gaurav's obsession turned himself a man who wants to create chaos in Aryan Khanna's life.

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Plot Keywords:

obsession | dancing | delhi india | look alike | dual role | 

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Taglines:

World's biggest superstar got the biggest FAN of the universe!

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official Facebook

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

15 April 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Fanul

Filming Locations:

Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

INR 850,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$10,300,000 (India), 17 April 2016, Wide Release

Opening Weekend USA:

$1,357,212, 17 April 2016, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$1,357,212, 17 April 2016

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

INR 1,880,000,000, 28 April 2016

Company Credits

Production Co:

Redchillies.VFX, Yash Raj Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

138 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Film's soundtrack was composed by Vishal - Shekhar.

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Goofs

When Aryan Khanna is staring at Gaurav's trophy kept on the glass rack in his house, after Gaurav had destroyed Aryan's trophies, 2 crew members are reflected on the right side of the glass rack.

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Quotes

Gaurav Chandna: Forget it. You won't understand.

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Crazy Credits

Before end credits roll, a montage of Gaurav's (Shahrukh Khan) memories are shown.

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Connections

References Bunty Aur Babli (2005)

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Soundtracks

Byapok Fan
Written by Priyo Chattopadhyay
Composed by Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani
Performed by Anupam Roy

User Reviews

The Movie which unearths the ACTOR SRK.....finally

After a long time, finally a SRK movie that propelled me to take some time out and write up a post.

To begin with, FAN, by no means is a perfect and flawless movie (more on that later), but what the movie has successfully achieved is to unearth the untapped ACTOR out from the catacombs of mediocrity that has thus hindered the transition of THE STAR to an ACTOR.

Director Maneesh Sharma, who also claims to be a big SRK fan himself, surely knows that the general audience wants to see more than rhythmic extension of arms from the MAN who once gave extremely nuanced and balanced portrayals in Swades and CDI. And hereby comes the movie FAN which can be any actor's dream role. From an uncouth and lovable Gaurav Chandana to a shrewd, realistic Aryan Khanna, it was hard to imagine that the same actor did play both the characters and that too with so much attention to detail. There are quite a few scenes that leaves you in awe of the exemplary display of Acting and makes you wonder "where was this SRK hiding for so long?" Kudos to the Director for taking this bold step of making the movie without any songs, heroines or as a matter of fact any comic scenes as well. It is just one man show from beginning to end laced with some superlative performance.

Now coming to the flip side, at least for me, are the 3 exceptionally well designed and seemingly never-ending chase sequences which somewhat dilutes the impact. But again I see others really praising those sequences (so it depends on the taste I assume). Another glaringly noticeable point is the contrastingly different approaches to handle the 1st and 2nd halves. In the first half, the makers tried to keep the narrative as much close to reality as possible but in the 2nd half, Maneesh Sharma played it to the gallery where logic takes a backseat, but the sequences concerned are certainly thrilling and creepy enough to keep you glued to your seats.

Lastly the climax which might receive extreme opinions, but I personally loved the ending.

To conclude, this is not one of the best performance of SRK, rather his career best performance. And the movie might not earn big bucks because of its dark, grim and creepy undertones but will surely earn the love of moviegoers.