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Netflix kept on suggesting me The Office for years and I kept on ignoring it.. reasons being - not a big fan of documentary typed film making & I literally didn't know anyone apart from Steve Carell from the cast. And then, Quiet Place happened & I started following up on John Krasinski's works and finally, as strongly recommended by a friend, I gave it a shot. Though initially it took me some time to get used to the jarring camera works and all the weird characters doing weird actions, but once I went pass the initial hiccups, I simply couldn't stop. The show has innumerable wonderful and warm moments throughout, but it's always the ending that makes or breaks a show.. And the way this show concluded, takes it to my all time fav endings along with Breaking Bad and Friends. I went into it expecting to love Krasinki's Jim and Carell's Scott but I ended the show gushing about Wilson's Dwight Kurt Schrute.. As Jim says, he pulled the Best Prank ever in the season finale that's sure to melt your hearts.

After a long time, finally a SRK movie that propelled me to take some time out and write up a post.

To begin with, FAN, by no means is a perfect and flawless movie (more on that later), but what the movie has successfully achieved is to unearth the untapped ACTOR out from the catacombs of mediocrity that has thus hindered the transition of THE STAR to an ACTOR.

Director Maneesh Sharma, who also claims to be a big SRK fan himself, surely knows that the general audience wants to see more than rhythmic extension of arms from the MAN who once gave extremely nuanced and balanced portrayals in Swades and CDI. And hereby comes the movie FAN which can be any actor's dream role. From an uncouth and lovable Gaurav Chandana to a shrewd, realistic Aryan Khanna, it was hard to imagine that the same actor did play both the characters and that too with so much attention to detail. There are quite a few scenes that leaves you in awe of the exemplary display of Acting and makes you wonder "where was this SRK hiding for so long?" Kudos to the Director for taking this bold step of making the movie without any songs, heroines or as a matter of fact any comic scenes as well. It is just one man show from beginning to end laced with some superlative performance.

Now coming to the flip side, at least for me, are the 3 exceptionally well designed and seemingly never-ending chase sequences which somewhat dilutes the impact. But again I see others really praising those sequences (so it depends on the taste I assume). Another glaringly noticeable point is the contrastingly different approaches to handle the 1st and 2nd halves. In the first half, the makers tried to keep the narrative as much close to reality as possible but in the 2nd half, Maneesh Sharma played it to the gallery where logic takes a backseat, but the sequences concerned are certainly thrilling and creepy enough to keep you glued to your seats.

Lastly the climax which might receive extreme opinions, but I personally loved the ending.

To conclude, this is not one of the best performance of SRK, rather his career best performance. And the movie might not earn big bucks because of its dark, grim and creepy undertones but will surely earn the love of moviegoers.