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Karan Johar is currently in Bangkok for the IIFA awards and once he’s back, he will get busy with his film My Name Is Khan starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, and in all likelihood, will commence shooting towards the end of the year.

SRK plays Rizwan Khan, a character, who has the Asperger syndrome, which is one of several autism spectrum disorders and is characterised by difficulties in social interaction amongst other things in the film. If word is to be believed, then Karan is contemplating changing the protagonist’s name in his film from Rizwan Khan, to something else.

The reason being that Vivek Oberoi’s character in Apoorva Lakhia’s next, Mission Istanbul, which is slated for a July release, is also called Rizwan Khan. Since Karan’s film is titled after the protagonist, the need to change the name to one that is uncommon at least as far as film characters go, seems understandable. Now, it remains to be seen whether Karan actually goes ahead and changes the name to something else or sticks to his original Rizwan Khan.

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