Jul 01, 2016 08:15 PM
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Good movie though, srk plays a great role in movie, But, and this is the thing, the film does not simper or slobber.
It is a wonderful, grasping, knowing performance, the actor and the star all rolled in one, all at our service, even as they service Shah Rukh Khan’s stratospheric stardom.It is not in thrall to its star, even when it recognizes his stardom. It goes at itself with with a raised devil’s eyebrow(just like SRK’s) and a nod and a wink, and brings us in on the joke. And Shah Rukh Khan keeps pace with us, all the way.
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.
