MY NAME IS KHAN is a Indian film that we didn't review when it was first released because there were no previews. It's had a simultaneous release around the world and is breaking box office records for a Hindi film.
Set mainly in America where Rizwan Khan – played by Bollywood superstar SHAHRUKH KHAN – moved with his mother to live with his brother. Rizwan is autistic, he has Asperger's Syndrome but that doesn't prevent him establishing a lovely relationship with single mother Mandira – Kajol…
The film is nearly three hours long, with a ten minute intermission. The first part is really the romance that develops between Rizwan and Mandira, the second part moves into darker territory as Rizwan, a Muslim, and his family experience the backlash caused by 9/11.
Directed by the very successful Karan Johar, the film is shamelessly manipulative, a real tear jerker, it certainly jerked them out of me. Kajol is lovely as Mandira and Shahrukh Khan is affecting as the Asperger's-affected hero on a mission to meet the President of the United States.
It is very like Forrest Gump; its message, which is that people are either good or bad, regardless of their ethnicity or religion, comes through loud and clear. The music, such a feature of Indian cinema is terrific, is largely on the soundtrack, with no big song and dance numbers.
I'd give the film 3½ stars.
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2824439.htm
Set mainly in America where Rizwan Khan – played by Bollywood superstar SHAHRUKH KHAN – moved with his mother to live with his brother. Rizwan is autistic, he has Asperger's Syndrome but that doesn't prevent him establishing a lovely relationship with single mother Mandira – Kajol…
The film is nearly three hours long, with a ten minute intermission. The first part is really the romance that develops between Rizwan and Mandira, the second part moves into darker territory as Rizwan, a Muslim, and his family experience the backlash caused by 9/11.
Directed by the very successful Karan Johar, the film is shamelessly manipulative, a real tear jerker, it certainly jerked them out of me. Kajol is lovely as Mandira and Shahrukh Khan is affecting as the Asperger's-affected hero on a mission to meet the President of the United States.
It is very like Forrest Gump; its message, which is that people are either good or bad, regardless of their ethnicity or religion, comes through loud and clear. The music, such a feature of Indian cinema is terrific, is largely on the soundtrack, with no big song and dance numbers.
I'd give the film 3½ stars.
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2824439.htm
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