My Name is Khan and I am not for everybody!

Well, atleast not for me.

Hi Everybody

After nearly a year and a half I played cricket last Saturday afternoon. Trying to move my rusted joints in the process was only compounded by the excellent lunch I had just had, at my friend’s place. Anyway, that day was full of fun from morning till we finished our cricket session late in the afternoon. If anybody, it was only me, who can spoil it from then on. And to my disbelief, I did it. I spoiled all the good experiences I had on that day. Yes. I made a decision to go and watch My Name is Khan.

Though not a great SRK or Karan Johar fan, I went to the movie without prejudice. We could only get the tickets on the first row. Convenient though, as Nimalan slept in Kshama’s lap and she was sitting on the floor for the whole movie.

To be honest, I was not disappointed in the initial stage as it was neither a usual SRK movie nor a usual Karan Johar movie. It was an honest and a genuine attempt when Rizwan Khan narrates his childhood. The ‘Ammi’, the sons the town were all believable. The way Ammi explains the good and the bad to Rizwan is impressive. The performances of SRK, Kajol, the small boy were very good and even the rest of the cast has done justice for their character.

Rizwan has a type of autism. He is very intelligent and a very idealistic person. His younger brother is studious and ends up in the US through his hard work. He, however has a problem with his mother because she spends most of her time on Rizwan. On mother’s death, he calls rizwan to the US and live with him. There Rizwan meets Mandira (Kajol), who is a divorced and living as a single mother. She has to marry Rizwan as he is the hero. I am telling this because, there is no romance shown between them and we could only see that Mandira is only ok to see Rizwan every day. Then Mandira’s son gets killed in a post 9/11 racist attack in his school.

Mandira assumes that it is because of his newly acquired surname ‘Khan’ and has a spat with Rizwan and the fight ends up Rizwan taking up a journey which will only end when he meets the president of the US and tell him that ‘My name is Khan and I am not a Terrorist’.
May be I am dumb, but honestly, I don’t understand if that journey was Rizwan to tell the president how he feels or is that solely to get back to Mandira.

Phew! I think I narrated the whole story to you. It sounds interesting isn’t it?. Well, it was, for me till certain point and then it became too monotonous and the story that was worth only 90mins just goes on and on and at a stage I started thinking about what to do next week end.

The scene in which the president leaves and then comes back just to meet Rizwan was too much for me to digest.

As always, I would appreciate anybody’s attempt to make a soup but not the soup itself if it is not palatable.

Anyway, this is purely my own view after watching this movie. Just go and watch the movie for your own view on that. If you make a clone out of me and ask the clone to watch the movie, most probably, he will not.

Satish