Fan movie review in pics: This is an out-and-out Shah Rukh Khan show

Shah Rukh Khan starrer Fan has earned Rs. 68.35 cr in six days. The film witnessed a decline in collections on Monday (April 18), Tuesday (April 19) and Wednesday (April 20) but since holidays are about to begin, the film is likely to gain momentum again. Marking a perfect opening with Rs. 19.20 cr in its kitty, the collections of other days could not go beyond that. On Wednesday, Fan managed to earn a mere Rs. 4.20 cr.

Proving his star power on day one, Shah Rukh Khan’s film could not stand strong throughout the first weekend as it earned Rs. 15.40 cr on Saturday and Sunday’s collections were Rs. 17.75 cr. By making Rs. 6.05 cr on day four (Monday), Rs. 5.75 cr on day five (Tuesday) and Rs. 4.20 cr on day six (Wednesday) the total collections of Fan have gone up to Rs. 68.35 cr.

The film which has got a thumbs up by the critics has been getting mixed response from the viewers. The Sunday collections of the film will play an important role in the overall collections of the first weekend.

A 1987 Stephen King novel called ‘Misery’ has a bestseller author locked into a deadly duel with a woman who calls herself his ‘biggest fan’, and who will do anything—even kill– to preserve the image that she has of him. In some ways, ‘Fan’ reminded me of that King novel, which is part horror, part thriller, and part a rumination on how obsessive fandom and the object of the all the worshipping is connected, and how when things go wrong, they can go horribly, inexorably south.
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The movie did a great business internationally as well as it collected $2.7 million (Rs. 17.93 cr.) on Thursday (April 14) and Friday (April 15).

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.
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Shah Rukh Khan, who came back with a negative role after a long time, was also praised by the critics and film fraternity for his performance as fan Gaurav and superstar Aryan Khanna in the film directed by Maneesh Sharma.

With this box office numbers, Shah Rukh Khan’s Fan has shot up to the top position beating Akshay Kumar’s Airlift with Rs. 12.35 cr. and the recently released Jon Favreau’s The Jungle book with Rs. 10.09 cr. on the opening day.

Indian Express critic Shubhra Gupta also gave Fan three and half stars and has praised SRK for his performance.

But the rest of it is so good that you let it pass. There are a bunch of other actors here, all competent. Gaurav has a ‘kind of’ girl-friend who wants to go to Amreeka, and loving parents ( Amin, Tiku) ; Aryan has a wife and kids and opulent interiors and an entourage. But this is an out-and-out Shah Rukh Khan show, in which the star proves again, after a too-long gap, that he can greenlight roles completely out of his comfort zone, and deliver. It is what’s called a command performance.
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Fan box office collections are out and Shah Rukh Khan’s star power has yet again proved why he is called Bollywood’s Baadshah. SRK’S film dominated the box office on the opening day of its release. The movie had a superb opening and has minted Rs. 19.20 cr. on the first day of its release.