Recent film of Shar Rukh Khan “FAN” has earned a decent talk and appraisal from the audience. And most people who’ve walked out of cinema after watching the film have been talking about how SRK’s portrayal of an obsessive fan. The tale of a superstar Aryan Khanna and his look-alike fan Gaurav Chandna has amazed everyone who stepped out of the theatres. Shah Rukh, 50, believes that without Maneesh’s guidance, he would not have been able to do justice to the character of Gaurav.

Hollywood make-up guru Greg Cannom and the VFX team at Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment did a remarkable job turning the 50-year-old star into a 25-year-old look-alike fan in the thriller Fan. In the video Khan reveals he hated having to sit in a chair for 4-5 hours each day as he was transformed into the fan Gaurav. He also added “I promised myself I would not get angry.”

Here is a video that takes us behind the scenes of all that went into creating Gaurav Chandna.

Watch the video below to see SRK transform into a fan:

“I won’t say it was easy because I was playing a movie star, the way I do in real life. So, it doesn’t take you away from the real world. Maneesh and the whole team had a great understanding of how Gaurav was. 50% of what you see in Gaurav is a physical transformation” said Shah Rukh Khan

“I wouldn’t have been able to play the role. I just knew the superficiality of Fan before Maneesh told me the depth and how well understood was Gaurav. If I achieve what Maneesh wants, then I will be very happy. I don’t know what I was playing. I was just following Maneesh’s instructions,” added Shah Rukh.

“The technology, special effects and the make-up used in the movie is the first of its kind in the world. After Fan, everybody will look up to Hindi films in the terms of what we can go with visual effects and make-up. Nobody had done anything like this before. It was the first time using prosthetics to make someone look younger and in different circumstances and in India’s weather. It was much more difficult.” Said King Khan.

The transformation is revealed in a 15 minute video released by Yash Raj Films. The combination of prosthetics and make-up created by Cannom, an Oscar winner and VFX is the first time in the world that technology had been used in a film, according to the director Maneesh Sharma.

Cannom says, “I was shocked to see Shah Rukh working in young make-up for 70 days. Usually with make-ups like this it is 15 to 20 days. When I saw the first clip I was shocked at how good it looked. I was pretty amazed at how well it worked.”