My Name Is Khan (2010)

• Year: 2010
• Released: 12 Feb 2010
• Country: India, United States, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong
• Adwords: 25 wins & 32 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188996/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/my_name_is_khan
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/my-name-is-khan
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Hindi, English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Runtime: 165 min
• Writer: Shibani Bathija, Niranjan Iyengar
• Director: Karan Johar
• Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Sheetal Menon
• Keywords: based on true story, based on a true story, religion, autism, disability,

	7.9/10
	50/100
	83% – Critics
	83% – Audience

My Name Is Khan Storyline

During November 2007, San Francisco-based autistic Rizwan Khan, en-route to meet the President of the USA so that he can convey that his name is Khan and he is not a terrorist, recalls his life, initially with his Bombay-based dad, Dilawar Amanaullah Khan; mom, Razia; and brother, Zakir. Dilawar works for the State Transport workshop in Borivali, and Rizwan accompanies him, learns the trade, and can repair virtually anything. After his passing, Rizwan is abused by his classmates, as well as by Zakir, who feels neglected, so she hires Wadia to teach Rizwan. Years later, Zakir decides to re-locate to U.S.A., and once there, gets married to Hasina. He sponsors Razia and Rizwan, but Razia passes away. In San Francisco, where Zakri runs ‘Mehnaz Herbal Beauty Products’, Rizwan is hired as a door-to-door salesman, while Hasina concludes that he has Asperger’s Syndrome. While selling products, he meets with and is attracted to a Hindu Salon worker, Mandira Rathod, a single mother of Sameer, whose husband abandoned her and re-located to Australia. Both Rizwan and Mandira decide to get married much to Zakir’s chagrin, who asks Rizwan to leave. The trio re-locate to Banville, open their own salon, encounter racial profiling after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, are blacklisted, shunned and suffer losses, and then Sameer gets killed. Mandira blames Rizwan for her plight, while she decides to pursue Sameer’s death with Detective Miguel Garcia.When tragedy strikes, Mandira is devastated and they split. Rizvan is confused and very upset that the love of his life has left him. To win her back, he embarks on a touching and inspiring journey across America.

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My Name Is Khan Movie Reviews

Certainly NOT your typical Bollywood picture!

“My Name is Khan” is a film you simply must watch with a box of Kleenex nearby. You will shed quite a few tears and it’s an emotional roller-coaster watching it. But, it is worth it.

The film is about a man named Rizvan Khan, a Muslim Indian man who would be diagnosed has having an Autism Spectrum Disorder. While he’s much more functional than many Autistic folks, saying he has Asperger’s Syndrome isn’t quite right either. Like someone with Asperger’s, he is highly intelligent and very functional in many ways…but lacks the ability to understand social graces and nuances. But he also acts a bit odd…avoiding eye contact and behaving, in some ways, like someone classically Autistic. The fact is that there is no one way folks with the disorder act or think…and it is an excellent portrait due to good writing as well as acting by Shahrukh Khan.

After Rizvan leaves India for America, the film focuses much on his life and love life…which is very sweet and much like a traditional Bollywood romance…though set in the States. But this is only the first portion. The final half is like a completely different film…a bit like “Forest Gump” in that Rizvan goes on a trek across America…meeting some amazing and famous folks along the way. Why does he go off on this journey? See the film.

It’s pretty obvious that this film was a personal project of love by Shahrukh Khan. He is a Muslim married to a Hindu..just like the characters in the film. And, like the characters in the film, there were a lot of haters who inexplicably attacked Khan for marrying ‘an infidel’. This movie is a plea to everyone to stop this hate…and emphasizes the universal goodness (as well as wickedness). The film shows hate in India as well as America…as well as goodness. And, the film shows Muslims being oppressed…and behaving awfully…much like so many others in the film. All in all, it’s a modern morality tale…one intended to both entertain and educate the audience.

While I loved the film, as did my wife, it is not perfect. A few of the characters (particularly the wife in the story) are inconsistent and some of their actions are confusing and make little sense…and a few seem a bit like caricatures. But even then, there is so much compelling material and the overall story so good, I can easily overlook the flaws.

How Foreigners See Us

My Name Is Khan is yet another film that will put the Indian film industry on the map. And this is a new phenomenon that America will have to get used to, foreign film countries shooting in the USA and examining our society. For better or worse this is how we seem to many foreigners.

Shakrukh Khan creates a character in Rizwan Khan that many Americans will recognize if they’ve seen Being There, Rainman, and Forrest Gump. Bits from all those films will be found in My Name Is Khan. Khan is a Moslem citizen of India who emigrates to the USA and finds love and happiness when he weds a mother with a son from a previous marriage the wife played by Kajol and the stepson by Yurgon Makaar. She’s Hindu, but the different faiths don’t seem to matter. Khan suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and its challenge enough for him to make his way in the world without picking up on the subtle nuances of the differences of religions and why one group has to hate all the others.

All this changes on September 11, 2001 when some fanatical Moslems hijack some airlines and change the course of history forever crashing them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and killing a lot of innocent people, including a few hundred Moslems by all counts of the victims. As in the past here and other places bad behavior by some inflicted a stigma on the group.

Young Mr. Makaar is killed in a hate crime incident which changes Khan’s relationship with his mother and Khan himself through a combination of circumstances gets on a terrorist watch list. Khan conceives a mission to tell the President of the United States be it George W. Bush or Barack Obama that he is not a terrorist.

Both in my professional and family heritage I’ve got some history with these kind of events. In my former job with Crime Victims Board I had a claim involving a bias attack against a young Arab American boy the same age as Mr. Makaar. It was only when I questioned the young man and his parents I learned of the bias nature of the events. Together with the GLBT liaison with the Kings County District Attorney we went to the Bias Unit of the NYPD and got the case reclassified as a bias attack. Sad though that no one was ever arrested for the crime, but it wasn’t for lack of trying here. This was during the years immediately following the first Iraqi War and there was an upswing of attacks on Moslem Americans then as well.

After World War I, we had the Palmer Raids in which the Bill of Rights was torn up and under the Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer many suspected radicals of Jewish or Slavic origins were deported in wholesale lots. I had a grand uncle on my mother’s side who had such radical politics and he missed being deported by a hair. This was after the Russian Revolution and a number of anarchist bombings including the Morgan Bank on Wall Street and a mail bomb sent to the Attorney General himself. Duly elected Socialist members of the New York State Legislature were expelled at this time. It was not a good era.

In the tradition of Peter Sellers, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hanks, Shahrukh Khan might have an Oscar or nomination at least in his future. Two Magic Kingdom regulars from their teen shows have parts in this, Shane Harper of Good Luck Charlie plays one of the bashers and and Kenton Duty of Shake It Up playing the best friend who turns on Yurgon Makaar show far more acting chops in this than on the Disney Channel.

There is no excuse or reason, no justification at all to make war on children. If you want to fight terrorists there’s a war now in Afghanistan and probably future wars for the USA unless both we get it right and certain Moslems realize they are not taking the world over for Allah. Ditto the Christians who want to win the world for Jesus. We all have to live together and secular humanism may yet save us all.

And this review is dedicated to the late Liz Garro of the Kings County District Attorney’s office, the late John Lucyshyn my grand uncle who lived in the USA until his 90s, and to Ziad Abdel-Dayem of Brooklyn who last I heard is a married man. All three of you made the world a better place.

‘There are two kinds of people: good and bad – and that is all the difference.’

MY NAME IS KHAN is a rather long journey of a film – almost as long the journey depicted in the movie. At three hours in length it may lose some viewers, but for those who stay until the end, the message is larger than life and very important. Especially now, as the world grapples with multiple wars based on differences of beliefs under the flag of ‘religion’. As written by Shibani Bathija and Nirajan Iyengar this is a tale of growing to understand and embrace tolerance on many levels. The main character, Khan, in many ways represents Everyman – a human being, imperfect in the eyes of the world because he has Asperger’s Syndrome, who discovers the meaning of love and the importance of tolerance so necessary if this world is to stay intact.

We first meet Rizwan Khan, an outsider because of his variations from normal due to his Asperger’s Syndrome, living with his Muslim mother Razia (Zarina Wahab) and younger brother Zakir: Zakir is gifted and at age 18 leaves Mumbai to move to San Francisco for a new beginning. When Razia dies she makes Khan promise her that he will make a good life – that there are no differences in people except good and bad. Khan (Shahrukh Khan) moves to San Francisco, coping with his disabilities as best he can, finds work with in a cosmetic firm selling lotions and potions for his brother Zakir (Jimmy Shergill). One of the reasons Khan is successful as a salesman is his utter honesty, and this trait finds an admirer in cosmetologist Mendira (Kajol) who eventually, through a courtship that is as special as any ever filmed, agrees to marry Khan. Zakir condemns the marriage (Mendira is Hindu, Khan Muslim) and will not accept the couple in his and his wife Hasina’s (Sonya Jehan) home. Mendira has a young son from a former marriage and that son finds friendship that eventually betrays him: the world of the Bay Area is sick with the aftermath of 9/11 and all Muslims are suspect and disrespected. When Mendira’s son is brutally beaten to death, the Hindu Mendira blames herself for marrying a Muslim Khan, and tells his to leave, that the only way she will ever see him again is after he has met with the President of the US to say ‘My name is Khan, and I am not a terrorist.’

Mendira stays in her home struggling with the fact that her son’s murderers cannot be found. Khan sets out to travel across the country, attempting to meet the President and deliver his message so that Mendira will take him back. His journey is an examination of human kindness – he is supported by an African American Georgia family Mama Jenny (Jennifer Echols) when he helps her son, and in turn when a hurricane destroys Mama Jenny’s home, Khan returns to help her rebuild, an act that is televised and encourages many Muslims (including Zakir and Hasina) to offer help in the catastrophe. There are many other sidebar stories that occur during Khan’s mission to greet the President, each an example of how important communication and equality is life we are to dwell on one planet. Yes, the ending is somewhat saccharine, but the eyes won’t likely remain dry as the credits roll.

Sharukh Khan is extraordinary as Khan and the supporting cast is very strong, especially the beautiful and talented Kajol. Though there are flaws present, the overriding effect of the story diminishes them to the point of being inconsequential. This is a very beautiful film, one that do well being viewed by every one on the earth!

Grady Harp