Ab Superstar banega Fan

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who has millions of fans around the world, is all set to play one in his upcoming film ‘Fan’, to be directed by ‘Band Baaja Baarat’ helmer Maneesh Sharma for Yash Raj Films (YRF).

The 48-year-old actor said the role is a tribute to his admirers.

"Most of the characters I do are the ones I create... for the first time I am going to play what has created me...I will be in my next a 'Fan'," Shah Rukh tweeted.

"'Fan' is a 'family film'. It's the family all of you have become for me... the one I didn't have. I want to be as beautiful as you all. Thanx (sic)," he added.

Directed by Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra, the film has been written by Habib Faisal and will start shooting from next May.

Shah Rukh and YRF have worked on many successful films in the past and their most recent collaboration was on Yash Chopra's last film 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan'.

Meanwhile, SRK will be playing a bootlegger and actor-turned-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar a cop in Rahul Dholakia's next movie, ‘Raees’. "Shooting for this film will begin mid next year. It is an interesting story," Dholakia said without divulging any

details.

This is for the first time that SRK and Farhan will be sharing the screen space. They had worked together for the remake version of 'Don' and its sequel 'Don 2', where Farhan was involved in the project as a producer while SRK played the main lead. 'Raees' will be produced by Excel Entertainment. "We all have decided to release this film on Eid in 2015,"

Rahul said.