‪#Fan‬ (2016) - " Director Maneesh Sharma's dream film to make, there is a reason why director wanted to make this film with this particular actor, inspiration of millions... It starts with fast montage of a middle class society child growing into a teenager and young adult influenced by a super star, we follow from his perspective and the things he do for his star, breaking into two halves, the first half is pure emotional core drama then the second half twists itself into a adrenaline rushed thriller drama, so do we connect to that character is the question? Do we care for him? Yes we do, at least I did.. He's a sweet person but does some crazy stupid things which seems right in his way but then from other perspective this is very serious and a mistaken thing to do. Without any spoilers watch it for yourself... Now coming to direction and screenplay, we were promised that we will be confused in between Superstar and Fan to whom to support and root for and yes I got that from it beautifully, at one time I was with this fan then other times I was supporting this star.. This was brilliantly achieved, the each other's perspectives were flawless, there are two particular scenes in first half, one the first time a fan sees his star and that is a powerful scene!! The voice of one lost in thousands, that was gut hurting scene and so true in each perspective and the other is masterful technical achievement, brilliantly directed scene of around 4-5 minutes (the interaction between two characters, this scene itself took 9 months to pre visualize and 8 days to shoot, but it looks so simple and that is it's greatness, it's so well done!!!).. In the second half I was at edge of my seat thinking what will happen next, every scene I was invested in it and that is a big achievement in itself., final scene of film with Aryan let's you in confused state as we see Aryans face (all the journey flashes in front of his eyes, we don't see it but we can feel it) and we feel his thoughts without any words spoken!!! It lets you blank in mind, The acting is pure genius!!.......The background score gives goosebumps along the ride... Now the characters ‪#Gaurav‬ and ‪#Aryan‬, we follow Gaurav from start and by the end we also get to know Aryan, balancing both of them on screen, so Aryan is a superstar and we see his stardom but also it shows life of every superstar, the little misinterpreted things in their life by media which can affect their lives personally and beyond their stardom he is a man with emotions and life too like every other person, this was a good way to express it by character himself and SHAH RUKH KHAN played this so well, in a grounded and subtle way, there was a powerful calmness in this character!! Such a brilliant performance within itself, then comes Gaurav who is a Fan(can be a fan of anyone, also a lookalike of his star) this is a milestone in filmaking, technology and acting!! As the film progressed I forgot the fact that it is SHAH RUKH KHAN himself!! And now I don't think it is SRK, it's just Gaurav for me and this is what an actor dreams to achieve of!! Such an energetic and enthusiastic performance! And the way ‪#SRK‬ switches accents and body language for this character is beyond appreciations! Hats off!!🙏 there were so many layers of acting being done in it I can only describe it in simple way calling it as "limbo" of acting or "actingception" 😉🙂 Gaurav and Aryan both the characters deserve many acting awards individually!!" P.S :- A ‪#Bollywood‬ film with no villain, heroin, songs, extra attention seeking attraction, only power of storytelling and acting so, don't go into this film with prejudgment and own story in mind, follow it the way it is shown, there are many messages for youth and fandom in it and in these times of social media and media attention they are very relevant,.. Those who like this film will love it and those who don't connect with it won't care much but one thing is for sure that you'll come out thinking "Aryan was really very very well acted by SRK and that other young actor Gaurav did tremendous acting, he should do more films now, he's such a sweet fun person!! smile emoticon " SRK made this look so simple and easy!! He was so fluid in acting!!flawless and masterclass!! But it's not like a must watch type of greatest film ever made or wide audience appealing film, it's a niche cinema and it's a technical milestone with wonderful direction and certainly mind blowing one of the greatest acting seen in cinema!!! Watch it, it deserves our appreciation and applause!!