My Name is Khan: Movie Review
My Name is Khan is a movie with soul and some splendid emotions connected to it. It has love, hatred , sadness, and hope. A movie that shows people as either good or bad and not discriminate on the basis of religion and nationalities. A movie that has been directed by Karan Johar and brought to life by Sharukh Khan as Rizwan and Kajol as Mandira.
Rizwan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan) suffers from a kind of Autism, that makes him different from other people. Loud noises scare him, the color yellow freaks him out, new places and people make him very uncomfortable, and he doesn't make eye contact when he speaks. After his mothers death he moves to San Francisco to live with his brother Jimmy Shergil and wife Sonya Jahan. There he meets Mandira (Kajol) who is a single mother and has a sweet son. She works in a saloon for a living . both of them get married and live happily, until 9/11 when the world awakens to a tragedy and also every Muslim becomes a suspect. Rizwan is unaware of the difference between a Hindu and Muslim and knows only that people are either good or bad. Due to these incidents Mandira and Rizwan split and that leaves him very hurt and confused. He decides to travel to America and meet the president and also win back the love of his life.
The movie has remarkable actors in the form of Kajol and Sharukh who have done a wonderful job with the script and worked amazingly on the characters. The fact that you get completely involved in the film and the lives of the characters show how well Karan has done his job and the actors there’s. the scenes where an accident occurs and their lives are torn apart. Kajol's outburst - first, when her son meets with a catastrophe and second, when she confronts SRK - are truly shattering. The romance in the film is suble and very refreshing. It shows a mature Kajol and Sharukh performing their parts so well that you feel like falling in love with them all over again. Also the character played in the film by Sharukh of Rizwan is not of the easiy category and to pull it of and also carry the film along side should be applauded. Also one should watch the film from the very beginning as the first half hour has so many things in it, that if one scence is missed a vital link will be lost.
Shibani Bathija's screenplay is truly arresting. Shibani and Niranjan Iyengar's dialogues are applaud-worthy. Ravi K. Chandran's cinematography is awe-inspiring. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's music gels well with the nature of the film.
Final verdict, watch the film, Shiv Sena Natak or not, this one shouldn’t be missed at any cost.
OVERALL RATING: 4.5/5
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