Sabtu, 13 Februari 2010

My Name is (not) Khan, And I love Karan Johar


Sharukh Khan (Rizwan Khan) and Kajol (Mandira) are really back. It's not KKKB OR KKHH, it's My name is Khan.

My Name Is Khan is a fascinating love story, has an angle of religion and a world-shaking incident as a backdrop. The movie right away starts off with the already famous scene, where Rizwan Khan -suffers from Autism Asperger’s syndrome- is disrespectfully interrogated at the airport and then keeps on moving into a series of flashbacks about his life story. He meets hairstylist Mandira, a free-spirited woman who lives with her six-year old son, Sam, from a failed marriage. The subtle scenes between Rizwan & Mandira are nicely written and finely executed. Especially the sequences where Rizwan asks her to marry him in hill top. The perfect existence of the Khans gets disrupted, after 9/11 attack. Sam gets involved in a tussle with a few college ruffians who beat him up because his second name is Khan - a Islam name. Sam dies of his injuries and a shattered Mandira blames Rizvan for his death. "He died only because his name was Khan,” yells Mandira and asks Rizvan to leave her. Rizvan tries to assure Mandira that things would get better, but she tells him that as long as he remains a Khan, he would be looked upon as a terrorist, even if he persuaded the US president otherwise.

Karan Johar, who surprisingly returns with a more realistic, dark and controversial subject, completely in contrast with all of his previous projects. My name is Khan is not a bollywood movie, it's international taste if you won't call it hollywood movie. You can't find a group dancer during that film ^_^

One is the amazingly natural and highly expressive performance by the one and the only Kajol. It will be a great loss to bollywood Industry if she is willing to do only one or two films in 5-10 years. Kajol indisputably delivers another bright milestone act of her career in MNIK.

Coming back to Shahrukh Khan and his portrayal of an autistic personality of Rizwan Khan. The hard work is clearly visible and the effort is quite admirable. Shahrukh no doubt comes up with a noticeable performance as The Khan. Shahrukh has simply done a good job.

and the end and the most important merit of the movie is its solid and hard-hitting message to the world that “Everyone in a particular religion or community cannot and should not be punished for the inhuman crimes committed by a few people of the same origin.” The message comes out loud and clear as the end credits start rolling and I hope it is able to bring at-least a small change somewhere in the entire burning world.


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