My Name is Khan, an Indian drama starring Shahrukh Khan, Kajol and Kathy Baker, opens on Friday. It's about an Indian Muslim with Asperger's who marries an American Hindi woman and has many difficulties in the days following 9/11.
The studio, Fox Searchlight, hasn't given out much in the line of pre-release information — no preview screenings — but I do see an actor cast in the role of Barack Obama in it. Hmmm.
And one has to wonder what Hollywood and Bollywood will do now that the psychiatric profession has done away with Asperger's as a diagnosis, thus depriving TV writers and folks like the filmmakers who made Adam (and possibly All About Steve) of their favorite mental disorder as plot device.
Source: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/2010/02/my-name-is-khan-opens-friday.html
The studio, Fox Searchlight, hasn't given out much in the line of pre-release information — no preview screenings — but I do see an actor cast in the role of Barack Obama in it. Hmmm.
And one has to wonder what Hollywood and Bollywood will do now that the psychiatric profession has done away with Asperger's as a diagnosis, thus depriving TV writers and folks like the filmmakers who made Adam (and possibly All About Steve) of their favorite mental disorder as plot device.
Source: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/2010/02/my-name-is-khan-opens-friday.html
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