FAN

IND
2016
2hrs 18mins
Dir: Maneesh Sharma
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan and Sayani Gupta

What happens when one fans passion for a superstar becomes a dangerous obsession?

This standard Bollywood drama was unsuccessful in the Indian box office but managed to succeed overseas. It has quite a lot of location work in England, with some of the second half filmed in London. There are aerial scenes around The Shard with Alexandra Bridge and Cannon Street Railway Station visible. Trains can be seen in the landscape, but they are too small to preclude an exact identity. There then follows an extraordinary sequence of events at King’s Cross station, masquerading as its neighbour St Pancras of all places!! (Why, just why?). Shah Rukh Khan is travelling to the Continent by train, and an HST pulls out with power car No.43309 on the rear with a fake ‘London to Dubrovnik’ dot matrix display in the cab windscreen!! Bollywood films are renowned for their poor continuity errors but this one seems a bit excessive. Class 365 EMU’s, Mk4 DVT’s, another HST set and a Class 91 electric are also visible in this scene. The adjacent power car to that pulling out is 43290, as identified through its nameplate – mtu fascination of power.

In this aerial shot of the Thames, Alexandra Railway Bridge is the centre of the three with Cannon Street station at its left-hand end. Can you spot the trains on the right?
This is the redeveloped concourse at London King’s Cross. The magnificent new roof puts it on a par with St. Pancras.
A nice and clear shot of platforms 6 and 7 at King’s Cross. A Class 365 EMU is in platform 6 with a Mk4 DVT in the adjacent platform 5.
HST power car No.43309 pulls out of King’s Cross on its way to….. Dubrovnik, Croatia. The dot matrix screen in the cab window maybe a CGI effect but this is laughable really. Another HST is on the left.
As the train departs we are at least treated to this excellent shot of it pulling out of the station. A Class 91 electric is revealed in the far distance whilst the nameplate just visible on the side of the power car on the left gives away its identity – 43290 mtu fascination of power (a name almost as laughable as the errors themselves).