Can someone please explain how FAN is a niche movie? - Page 4

Originally posted by: Piyatrix

What is Walusha D'Souza's screen time in the film? She is playing SRK's wife so by default she's the heroine of the film. Why are people saying there's no heroine?

Originally posted by: Piyatrix

What is Walusha D'Souza's screen time in the film? She is playing SRK's wife so by default she's the heroine of the film. Why are people saying there's no heroine?

Originally posted by: rimi2983

Rule out everything that doesn't suit the niche definition...

Just lack of songs, message and heroine makes it niche!!

Neerja was much more niche than Fan...

80% of Indian poplation has not travelled in a fligh...how can they relate to hijack movie !!

Originally posted by: mali89

A conventional mainstream hindi movie has :

- songs

- a love story (thus a heroine for the glamour quotient that's why there is such a thing as flowerpot roles)

-an heroic figure (someone you can look up to). The good and the evil are often well-defined. It seems that this fine line is blurred in Fan.

Then most often than not regarding a big budgeted movie starring a super star, it would be released during hollydays.

FAN doesn't follow the standards of an usual mainstream hindi movie thus it is a niche movie. The numbers it could achieve are solely due to SRK's presence.

I think it was commendable from a production house such as YRF to take such a risk and try to innovate on the movie front. They tried offering something new to the Hindi public. Of course such a project is costly ; that's why they needed a star to back it otherwise they couldn't have put so much money in it.

Even if the budget would have been 1000cr it would have still been a niche movie because it's nit the kind of movie which appeal to a great part of the audience. Luxe is a niche market for example as are shows for people with big foot or clothes for very tall persons. The target isn't wide and the product isn't directed for the main audience anyways.

The trade shows that single screens aren't attracted to it while the metros are loving it. It's not surprising if the metro have been exposed to Hollywood movies and like this kind of content.

Neerja WAS a niche movie. Heroine centric films are by definition niche movies because it's not what the public would usually go for. That's why the budget was of 21cr when it could have been of more if there was a hero in it. Try imagining the financial outcomes if Sonam's role had been switched with a male one? It would have been tremendeous success.