Re: My Name Is Khan/Reviews N Collections
**Needless to say, he wants to move in with Mandira and her 13-year-old son, Sam, urging her to marry him and convincing her he won’t take too much place because he’s thin and undemanding. Cute! The entire love story proceeds like a dream: full of beans and beauty and before you know, it’s tragedy time. The world discovers a new dateline – 9/11 – and hurtles towards divide and doom. Rizwan and his family are forced to bear the brunt of racial prejudice in an intensely personal way that brings down their citadel. Time for the handyman who “can repair anything” to move out on an impossible journey that hopes to end with setting the world right. All this, while wife Mandira devilishly battles her own demons and society fights its own ills.
The film takes on an expansive canvas: 9/11, post 9/11, racial abuse, draconian homeland security laws, a hysterical US jurisprudence, hurricane Katrina…Yet, it rarely loses focus – just here and there, post-interval – and remains primarily the story of a good man who wants to live in a good world with good people around him. The film is brimming over with scenes that relentlessly move you to tears, not because they are sad, but because they are uplifting, inspirational and just sometimes heart-rending. Performance-wise, this undoubtedly towers as Shah Rukh’s best act. He never once loses grip on his character, despite the mannerisms, the awkward body language and the distinct speech style. Definitely, this one’s a few miles ahead of even Tom Hank’s Forrest Gump.
****Kajol’s Mandira is a complete winner, with the actor pitching in such a restrained act in one of the most difficult scenes of the film, she simply blows you away. Zarina Wahab is unforgettable in a cameo and the kids are super. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy’s music score is apt, while Ravi Chandran’s camera captures San Fransisco like never before. But eventually it’s Rizwan Khan who walks out with you, b*****ng all the fundamentalists as `Liars’ and telling all those who doubt his integrity: My Name is Khan and I am not a terrorist, a non-Mumbaikar, or an unpatriotic Indian.
A word about
Performances: Shah Rukh is stupendous, Kajol mesmerising, Zarina Wahab moving and the kids – Tanay and Yuvaan – are brilliant. Not once does Shah Rukh lose his grip on the distinct character who has a distinct body language and a completely unchartered emotional graph.
Direction: Karan Johar comes of age. He tells a complex story with sparkling simplicity, without forgetting that cinema is primarily meant to entertain.
Story: Karan Johar and Shibani Batijha’s script is expansive, covering several events that have made headlines in the recent past. Yet, it essentially remains a moving love story that moves you no end.
Dialogue: Niranjan Iyengar and Shibani Bathija have demystfied contemporary strife with polish, restraint and research.
Music: Shankar-Ehsan-Loy’s audio track is brimming over with soulful, uplifting tracks like Noor-e-Khuda.
Cinematography: Ravi K Chandran creates a dreamy San Fransisco on canvas even as his Mumbai remains so real, so downtown, so back-alleyed.
Styling: Manish Malhotra and Shiraz Siddiqui go cosmo and chic with Kajol and nerdish with SRK. Perfectly apt.
RATING - *******
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