Hereby cherishing the return of King Khan...
Sleeping early on a friday night and getting up early on a saturday morning would not have been so easy had it not been for a Shahrukh Khan movie! And honestly every minute of My Name is Khan was worth all the pains taken.. The story revolves around the life of an ordinary Muslim man, the story of every Muslim man in US at the time of 9/11 disaster. A touching line in the movie says.. "Like time used to be defined as AD and BC, similarly in US it has become before 9/11 and after 9/11"! A child suffering from Asperser's syndrome (Khan), intellectually brilliant, falls in love with a beautiful divorced mother (Mandira), happily married and living a peaceful life with a wife and child and just when everything looks perfect in Khan's life, 9/11 happens. His cute child is tortured and killed by some hooligans and Mandira in a fit of rage blames Khan for his name and tells him to go away from her. And Khan agrees and genuinely asks her ".. but when should I return"! And then what she says results in the rest of the story.
There have been so many movies made on 9/11 but none can match My name is Khan. Starting from the scene where Shahrukh says "My name is Khan and i am not a terrorist" to the last scene where he finally meets the president every scene is stupendously shot. I am not here to promote the movie (for I am a die hard SRK fan) but I sincerely want all my friends to go and enjoy the movie thoroughly as I did. And to pen down a few scenes which stuck me and should not go un-noticed by you include the scene where Mandira (Kajol) cuts Khan's hair and with the back ground music and the lighting effect, it is a treat to watch. At the scene where he is not allowed to meet the President because he is not a Christian, the theatre applauded on the "No, no.. Honey, keep the money, for the people who are not Christians in Africa". Another heart touching line goes like.. "Ek Sikh ko Musalmaan samajh liya toh aapne apna libaaz badal diya par yahan ek Musalmaan ko insaan nahi samjha jaa raha hai aur aap apna schedule badalne ko tayyar nahi hai!"
The most amazing thing is the way in which Khan has portrayed autistic Khan's balance between insanity and intelligence. Though in some scenes including the romantic scenes with Kajol and the heroic scenes at Willemina the autistic Khan gets over driven by his own heroic SRK style but over all it is a commendable performance. And Kajol has complemented him brilliantly with another strong performance. And as usual the perfect chemistry between the two of them always keeps us asking for more! Five hours have passed and yet not over the Khan magic. The beats of "tere naina" are still echoing in my mind and my facebook message is soon going to be "cant stop listening to tere naina"
Over all it is a perfect entertainment package, Contradictory to a certain friend of mine, I strangely rate a movie as proportional to the amount of tears I shed! And generally I do that a lot on every other sad scene. But here, some emotional strings being attached to SRK, even the joyful scenes saw tears rolling down my cheeks and neighbours laughing on me! But i dont care, it was a fultoo paise wasool for me.. :D Hope it is the same for you in your very own way!
And not to forget, hats off to the man in charge, Mr. Karan Johar. Thank you..
And I just want to say it once again.. Love you Shahrukh.. :D
Sleeping early on a friday night and getting up early on a saturday morning would not have been so easy had it not been for a Shahrukh Khan movie! And honestly every minute of My Name is Khan was worth all the pains taken.. The story revolves around the life of an ordinary Muslim man, the story of every Muslim man in US at the time of 9/11 disaster. A touching line in the movie says.. "Like time used to be defined as AD and BC, similarly in US it has become before 9/11 and after 9/11"! A child suffering from Asperser's syndrome (Khan), intellectually brilliant, falls in love with a beautiful divorced mother (Mandira), happily married and living a peaceful life with a wife and child and just when everything looks perfect in Khan's life, 9/11 happens. His cute child is tortured and killed by some hooligans and Mandira in a fit of rage blames Khan for his name and tells him to go away from her. And Khan agrees and genuinely asks her ".. but when should I return"! And then what she says results in the rest of the story.
There have been so many movies made on 9/11 but none can match My name is Khan. Starting from the scene where Shahrukh says "My name is Khan and i am not a terrorist" to the last scene where he finally meets the president every scene is stupendously shot. I am not here to promote the movie (for I am a die hard SRK fan) but I sincerely want all my friends to go and enjoy the movie thoroughly as I did. And to pen down a few scenes which stuck me and should not go un-noticed by you include the scene where Mandira (Kajol) cuts Khan's hair and with the back ground music and the lighting effect, it is a treat to watch. At the scene where he is not allowed to meet the President because he is not a Christian, the theatre applauded on the "No, no.. Honey, keep the money, for the people who are not Christians in Africa". Another heart touching line goes like.. "Ek Sikh ko Musalmaan samajh liya toh aapne apna libaaz badal diya par yahan ek Musalmaan ko insaan nahi samjha jaa raha hai aur aap apna schedule badalne ko tayyar nahi hai!"
The most amazing thing is the way in which Khan has portrayed autistic Khan's balance between insanity and intelligence. Though in some scenes including the romantic scenes with Kajol and the heroic scenes at Willemina the autistic Khan gets over driven by his own heroic SRK style but over all it is a commendable performance. And Kajol has complemented him brilliantly with another strong performance. And as usual the perfect chemistry between the two of them always keeps us asking for more! Five hours have passed and yet not over the Khan magic. The beats of "tere naina" are still echoing in my mind and my facebook message is soon going to be "cant stop listening to tere naina"
Over all it is a perfect entertainment package, Contradictory to a certain friend of mine, I strangely rate a movie as proportional to the amount of tears I shed! And generally I do that a lot on every other sad scene. But here, some emotional strings being attached to SRK, even the joyful scenes saw tears rolling down my cheeks and neighbours laughing on me! But i dont care, it was a fultoo paise wasool for me.. :D Hope it is the same for you in your very own way!
And not to forget, hats off to the man in charge, Mr. Karan Johar. Thank you..
And I just want to say it once again.. Love you Shahrukh.. :D
5 comments:
Apart from the ones you mentioned, there was another scene I liked a lot.
We have heard a lot about the treatment met out to prisoners during interrogation post 9/11. We saw that being depicted in New York. But the way Rizwan puts it is insanely amazing. "Mandira yahan pe kabhi kabhi bahut garmi hoti hai aur kabhi kabhi bahut sardi. Maine un logon se pucha agar aapki AC kharab ho gayi hai to main theek kar dunga." Too good!
Beautiful storyline and except for the last few scenes (personal opinion) wonderfully depicted!
what karan johar has done is that he has taken two tried and tested (in recent times) formulae, jumbled them together and made a movie. A differently abled protagonist and aftermath and pitiful condition of muslims who have been tagged terrorists by the world. That frankly doesnt make it a marvelous film cause frankly direction sucks in some parts. And seriously SRK hasnt acted properly in the film ( he has acted well). A person with asperger's syndrome cannot decipher signals and expressions, cannot understand othe's emotions. but here in the film SRK acts like someone without emotions, which is wrong. One should get such facts right before making a film.
@Shreetam, missed that dialogue! yeah, that is also awesome..
@fatbaby, Tried and tested hai toh kya hua, it is described in a very different way.. You might call it in a karan johar way.. And King Khan has acted brilliantly as far as my opinion is concerned. This may be driven by personal choice but many anti SRK people agreed with me on this!
MNIK is the best movie i have seen ever.. what an amazing portrayal
of a plot !! just loved srk here, he's so sweet as rizwan khan.. mind blowing performance....
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