To say SHAH RUKH KHAN proved himself or made a comeback will be insulting the man. He has been Badshah of Indian Cinema for long. His tag of being quintessential romance king shadows the anti roles that he did in his career like Daar and Baazigar.
So FAN just about FANS the fire of his followers. SRK is at his prime as far as his acting is concerned. He uses every single expression that has been his trademark. It allows him to deliver phenomenally in the double role. However, the same cannot be said for the film.
Gaurav Channa ( SRK) is a young cyber café owner in Delhi and a die-hard fan of Aryan Khanna ( SRK)- the aging superstar. Gaurav follows Aryan. He knows smallest of detail about him, like Aryan traveled With-out-ticket in the train journey to Mumbai and stayed at room 205 in the hotel Delite. Gaurav also shares facial similarities with Aryan is something that fueled his craze. Young Gaurav decides to go to Mumbai and present his god- Aryan Khanna the trophy that he won in a local community competition mimicking Aryan. His dream bubble of meeting Aryan is brutally busted by who else but our fading star; Aryan.
Young Gaurav is hurt and humiliated. He decides to take revenge. In his way- ‘until now, the fan was chasing the star and now star will chase the fan’. All he wants of a Sorry from Aryan for bursting his dreams and refusing to give him five minutes of his life.
This is where SRK Vs SRK playoff starts. Time and again, both SRK get the opportunity to demonstrate what people already know- SRK can act. The film loses charm with unnecessarily over stretched chase and fight scene. Maybe it is a change that SRK wants to project. A fading star trying to live the image of an action hero.
It is a tribute to SRK ability that Gaurav Chana is the character that you remember in the end. Many people in hall 
commenting as if Aryan was SRK and they were inseparable. SRK delivers playing within his strengths. As the FAN ( Gaurav ) is an ardent fan and has Aryan looks, the similarity or at times undifferentiated gestures and mannerism are attributed to mimic the star.
Director Maneesh Sharma has done well within the constraint of an overstretched 143 minute loaded script without songs but with holes all over it. Anyway, you should never look for logic in a movie that could very well make to ‘Ripley- believe it or not’. His victory remains in viewers discussing actions of Aryan and Gaurav and taking sides. The grey remains grey. In the era of instant gratification, the climax is so overdrawn and ambitiously over stretched. It fails when half of the hall easily predicts the last act.
I hated not to see the lovely promotional song- ZABARDAST FAN on the screen which would have worked magic for the character of Gaurav Channa. And well will stars ever understand the power of their fans. They will mouth the reel-life lines ‘we are nothing without fan’. How does it matter? Gaurav Channa says it all at the end- when he says ‘Rehn de. Tu nahin samjhega’ and I thought he was talking to me.
Star Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Waluscha DeSousa, Deepika Amin, Yogendra Tiku, Sayani Gupta Director: Maneesh Sharma
