FAN. Review on Fan

Gaurav Chandna(Shah Rukh Khanna) is a Dilli boy who grows up worshipping Aryan Khanna( Shah Rukh), another Dilli boy who conquered Bombay and Bollywood. The Aryan Khanna who went from an ordinary middle class home to an ocean-front mansion surrounded by screaming mobs, who says, as if means every word, that he, Aryan, exists only because of his fans. Also read: Fan releases today: Five reasons to watch Shah Rukh Khan’s film  Gaurav’s journey to Mumbai to meet Aryan—who grants a ‘darshan’ to hysterical swarms waiting outside his bungalow, just the way the real-life superstar does, in just one of the many meta references littering the film– is both familiar and not-familiar.

The in-between spaces are filled with the unexpected, and that’s where the film scores. Stars are also human and fallible, and a victim of both hubris and frailty, and Aryan channels all those emotions. Oh wait, it is Shah Rukh doing the channeling, via Aryan, also Bollywood superstar. So if Aryan has feet of clay, does SRK too? This is one of the several clever inferences the film leaves us to draw from a film which is fashioned directly out of the star’s persona and power and pull, and how it impacts other lives.

The dilemma of a star who wants everything–can you ever have enough fans, and can they be mixed blessings—is laid out in full techni-coloured messy glory. The astonishingly-Aryan-lookalike Gaurav is not all sugar and spice either, and much of what he is impelled into doing is the result of what blind hero-worshipping can do. The star opens his arms wide; so does the copycat fan and wins a trophy. The star travels the world; the fan stalks him. And when the star draws the line – “main yahaan, aur tum wahaan”—the fan reacts in anger, disbelief and rage. There’s just one thing this fan wants, and that’s the one thing the star will not give him. He can, but he won’t. - See more at: https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/fan-movie-review-sh
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