Box office hit ‘Fan’ tells the story on madness over a star
View(s):With a record box office collection of more than 520 million Indian rupees or 1145 million Sri Lankan during the opening weekend ‘Fan’ Shahrukh Khan’s latest film is now being screened in Colombo.
This Indian thriller directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films, tells the story of an obsessive fan of a star who looks just like the fan
Waving to Aryan from the massive crowd, Gaurav fails to catch his idol’s attention. So he starts dreaming up novel, but creepy and illegal, ways to get it — first by kidnapping a rival of Aryan’s and forcing him to praise the star in a cellphone video that goes viral, and later in more and more harmful ways, including impersonating the star and getting into humiliating situations in an attempt to extract revenge for the perceived snub. The tension escalates when Gaurav tricks his way into Aryan’s home and threatens his wife and children.
Sharma studs Fan with details about life in Bollywood that are all too familiar to movie buffs: In real life, thousands actually do throng the streets outside Khan’s Mumbai mansion on his birthday every Nov. 2, and like Aryan (and Khan himself), many Indian stars rake in millions in pocket money with some strategically mercenary moonlighting — performing at international billionaires’ weddings and endorsing an endless succession of consumer brands.
