Fan- Movie Review by Shoby

Fan- Movie Review by Shoby

2.5 Hearts of out 5

Maneesh Sharma came into the direction's limelight by his very impressive debut Band Baja Baraat. He further strengthened our belief on his skills by narrating Shudh Desi Romance in beautiful manner. Ladies vs Ricky Behl was also a feel good movie and worked for the audience to which it was targeted. 

Before Fan, he has always been successful in catering youth based romantic entertainers. He collaborated with Shahrukh Khan for his ambitious project Fan and here it is what he had to offer.

Fan starts off with a bang. Gaurav, a die hard fan of super star Aryan Khanna (both played by Shahrukh Khan) wants to show/ present him the trophy that he has won in a domestic acting contest and goes to his residence for the same on his birthday. There he gets to know that he is not the only one who is in awe of this mega star. A world is desperate to have his mere one look. With the story passes by, he thinks of a naught plan to meet Aryan which turn out to be his major mistake. Instead of getting Aryan's attention in a positive way, super star becomes furious & scolds him, in fact puts him behind the bars for a couple of days. From here on starts a deadly hate relationship and rest is to be seen in cinema.

Without any doubt, Fan is a Shahrukh Khan affair altogether. Srk who has been in a drought of good scripts from quite some time now finally gets what was needed. If not in totality then at least in parts, Fan is a much better product than what we have witnessed from Srk in recent times. 10 on 10 for Shahrukh Khan on playing a very difficult character in such a convincing manner. To me, it is perhaps the second most challenging character of his career after My Name is Khan. He has rediscovered himself in the movie for sure.

First half of Fan is engaging and you may find the character a bit relatable as all of us may share somehow the same level of bond with our icons. Sweetness and innocence of Gaurav's character and aura of Aryan Khanna bowls you over. Till interval, it is a quite beautiful endeavor but right after interval, film starts falling down. Certain visible glitches make it look unrealistic and ultimately less entertaining. Episodes embedded within the script post interval are not believable at all.

Fan has no mainstream music, however a nice background score. It has some really nasty action and many cat/ rat chase scenes. Those who love action will definitely enjoy these sequences. DOP is great especially in two scenes. One at the local Super Star competition & then the Aryan Khanna Reloaded sequence. Both are captured beautifully. Dialogues are catchy and goes very well with the proceedings. 

Overall, it doesn't look like you are watching a Maneesh Sharma's flick. One who gave us superb entertainers with excellent slice of life story-lines and beautiful executions. Fan is his weakest script till date, I admit.

Watch Fan only if you are a die hard Fan of Srk, as it fails to provide any further entertainment. However Shahrukh Khan has carried beautifully the whole proceedings on his shoulders. His Gaurav avatar will be remembered for an excellent display of acting.