Nayandeep Rakshit (DNA; November 6, 2015)
The second teaser for Fan and Shah Rukh Khan’s Gaurav Chandana avatar is now out there. The theatrical trailer will be unveiled only in January, which introduces the character of superstar Aryan Khanna.
Although we now know that SRK’s playing Aryan and not himself in the film, some montage shots from the teaser do feature some of the iconic scenes from his movies or shots from few of his tell-all interviews. But there’s more than meets the eye.
Reveals SRK, “There are dialogues from my previous films which we have revisited in this film. We have reshot all the clips again as Aryan Khanna. Maneesh ne phir se woh recreate kiya hai.”
What are the dialogues? Without revealing too much, SRK does give out one which they have recreated in Fan. “There’s one from Baazigar, the one where I say, ‘15 saal se jo khoon mere ma ke ankhon mein aansu banke behta raha...’. But we haven’t taken Baazigar clips and simply reshot them. So the dialogues are still the same. I have only said it once again in this film.”
But redoing those scenes weren’t a cakewalk for him. He replies, “I had to say those lines again as the superstar in Fan. So we were shooting when Maneesh and the entire team said ‘Waisa nahi kiya jaisa aap karte ho’. So I said I know how it’s done because I have done it previously too. But Maneesh told me, ‘Woh Shah Rukh Khan waali baat nahi aayi. Aapki ankhon mein woh nahi aaya hai jo tab aaya tha’. So for me, it became very difficult to play both the roles.”
He adds, “I always tell people that there will be five films which I will show my kids after 20 years and Fan will be one of those films. I don’t know about the genre, the box office returns but for me, as an actor, I am very proud of this film.”