~~~FAN Reviews & BoxOffice Update 3~~~ DTNote:P94 - Page 85

Just loved @iamsrk sir in #FAN No Star like him No Fan like him "Rehen de tu nahi samjhega"

@iamsrk i cme bk speechless watching you perform!!! Shahrukh you exude magic i n both t roles!!!! Absolute treat watching you!#fan moment

Shah Rukh Khan's FAN has flopped at the domestic box office, as the film has dropped by 5% on a holiday for Mahavir Jayanti'. It was clear from the trend over the first weekend itself, that the drop over the weekdays was inevitable. But there was hope that FAN would sustain to reasonably good levels on Monday and then show decent growth on Tuesday (partial holiday). Both of those expectations weren't met and the film crashed both on Monday and Tuesday.

The first week business of FAN will be around 72 crore, which will be poor for a film starring a major superstar like Shah Rukh Khan. More so when it was given a big release of 3500 screens. The film could finish with lifetime business of around 85 crore, which will make it the lowest grossing SRK film since My Name Is Khan in 2010.

The overseas box office too isn't sustaining as well as it was expected to. A few countries like Pakistan and UAE are holding up well, but others have shown bigger than expected drops.

Overall, FAN has disappointed at the box office because the film was expected to perform at multiplexes. It was never a film that was meant to do well in the heartland of India, like Shah Rukh himself said, but even he would agree that it's the target audience (read moviegoers at multiplexes at Urban centres) who have rejected the film Saturday evening onwards.