Review Of FAN



Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, Swadesh and now FAN will possibly go down as movies with best performances of SRK. The only difference between the earlier too and this one is that in the earlier two movies the effort seemed really worth it because of the beautiful script and direction those movies had while this one will go down as a movie with great performance wasted in a very very weak script and not so good direction. Its a great idea wasted thru a poor script and direction.

On one hand while the scriptwriter failed to build enough intrigue, suspense and twists and turns in a story built around a 'Fanaticism & Hatred' , the director failed to do complete justice with what he had. The failure to build some highlight moments which could have been built when the FAN feels Cheated and the STAR finds him in real trouble , use some real background score instead of a score seemingly inspired from JAMES BOND movie, absolutely ridiculous chase scenes were the sole failures of the director.

Hence, the net effect was that what could have been a lifetime achievement of SRK turned out to be an abject turn off for the audience.

Having said that i would still say one should watch FAN once only for SRK who gave it his all. Specially the role of 'Gaurav Chaandna' was really well portrayed by SRK and he tried to do complete justice to it. It would have been a fabulous watch had he worked with an equally good team.

Movies are all about a team work, detailing and passion. While this must have had passion but it failed big time in detailing and quality of team work. Result an average to below average film. I would be intrigued to hypothesize how some great directors of our times like 'Anurag Kashyap' or 'Shimit Amin' or 'Dibakar Banerjee' would have treated this subject....

As far as SRK is concerned he has once again proven that he is a great actor of our times whose best is yet to come...

GO WATCH FAN FOR SRK's EFFORTS...


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