Shah Rukh Khan unveiled a new version of his famous wax figure at Madame Tussauds here to promote Fan, now showing in the UAE.
Khan’s wax statue has been modelled on Gaurav, the character of an obsessive fan from the movie and will be up for public viewing at the London Eye, which is a first for any wax statue.
Describing the experience of playing two different roles [Gaurav Chandana and superstar Aryan Khanna] in the film Khan said when he watched the film, he found it difficult to relate to Gaurav, a schizophrenic.
“It was awkward and strange to watch the twenty-something character onscreen,” he said at the London event.
With Fan, Khan returns to the thriller genre, something he hasn’t done in years, after successful films such as Anjaam and Darr where he played obsessive characters.
Gaurav’s bitterness towards his favourite cine idol is the premise of this film, the actor said.
“He [Gaurav] starts getting disappointed, which turns his whole life around. So, there is a darker side where it leads to an aggressive obsession and little bit of a revenge kind of a story. It’s a completely new subject, never tackled before and very, very interesting,” he said.
