FEB 14, 2010 – THE RHYTHMS OF MY NAME IS KHAN aren’t at all what you’d expect from a Karan Johar extravaganza – or, for that matter, a standard-issue Indian melodrama. Take, for instance, the moment where Rizwan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan, in an endearing performance that organically showcases his natural hyper-energy) is almost flattened [...]
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By Subhash K Jha
My Name Is Khan
Starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Jimmy Shergil, Sonia Jehan, Zarina Wahab
Written by Shibani Bathija
Directed by Karan Johar
Rating: *****
He repairs almost anything, including irreparably damaged relationships . But this film about damaged lives needs no repairing. My Name Is Khan is a flawless work, as perfect in content, [...]
The international figures have started pouring in…
U.K.:
MY NAME IS KHAN previewed last night [Thursday] with an incredible [approx.] £ 123,000 from 89 sites. The film opened 4th in the market place, behind AVATAR, THE WOLFMAN previews and INVICTUS.
AUSTRALIA:
On its opening day, MY NAME IS KHAN grossed an impressive Aus. $ 39,000. The movie is ranked [...]
The message of “My Name Is Khan,” an effective exercise in Bollywood high emotionalism, is less political than movie-ish: there are two kinds of people in the world, good and bad, a distinction more important than any other differences, like those between Hindus and Muslims.
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BERLIN — The thing about some Bollywood superstars is that they are actually fine actors as well as charismatic performers. So it’s not surprising in “My Name Is Khan” to see Bollywood mega-star Shah Rukh Khan — he’s light-years beyond a mere superstar in Hindi cinema’s cosmology — challenge himself to expand his acting range [...]
Rarely in Bollywood comes a performance so spectacular that the movie takes a backseat and you sit back in wonder. And when that performance comes from a person you have been watching for the last couple of decades, going through the motions with a dimpled smile and outstretched arms, the wow factor is multiplied manifold. [...]
One more issue-based Bollywood releases, but this time, it has the biggest stars, the biggest director, and the biggest critic nexus to support it. Is it really as sincere about the issue as it claims to be?
The mainstream is homogenous in all major industrialised film setups. It is like the ingredients of a sip of [...]
In khushi or gham, Karan Johar always wants to please. He stuffs his goodie bag with so many little bon bons that the viewer finds it difficult to look away. It’s the same with My Name is Khan.
Not content with giving Shah Rukh Khan Asperger’s syndrome, which allows him to jump outside his skin and [...]
Mumbai MNS chief Raj Thackeray accused Shiv Sena of adopting dual standards, saying the party was insisting on an apology from Shah Rukh Khan over his pro-Pakistan remarks while keeping mum on megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s campaign for good ties with that country.
“Just because Shah Rukh Khan made one comment, you (Sena) are insisting that he [...]
To understand why, you have to see the film. But let me try to give you a peek into Khan’s world.
My Name Is Khan is the story of Rizwan Khan, an Indian immigrant in the US. Rizwan has Asperger’s Syndrome which leads to interesting, moving, sometimes even amusing consequences in his life. As a child, [...]
My Name is Khan is a film made with sincerity and sweat, ambition and conviction. It grapples with the most urgent and fraught issue facing humanity: religion. It features a striking performance by Shah Rukh Khan.
It has some scenes, especially one involving a child’s death that will bruise you. Yet despite all this, My Name [...]
Trustworthy sources inform us that Rajkumar Hirani has decided to embrace the biggest challenge of his career. Reportedly, the director of MUNNABHAI MBBS, LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI and 3 IDIOTS has decided to cast Aamir Khan as Munna and Sharman Joshi as Circuit, in place of Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi, respectively, for his new film [...]
London, Jan. 16: Many conferences on Bollywood are held in the West but the one being organised by scholars at the University of Vienna will be different in one crucial respect — it will focus solely on Shah Rukh Khan.
The conference, which is called Shah Rukh Khan and Global Bollywood, recognises that he is not [...]
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As someone who was born and brought up in South Africa, I was particularly interested to discover how Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon managed with the notoriously difficult South African accent in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus. Actually, there are many South African accents, so a distinction has to be made between Nelson Mandela (Freeman), an English-speaking [...]
If you thought that “Avatar” was just a high-tech movie about a big-hearted tough guy saving the beguiling natives of a distant moon, you might want to check the prescription on your 3-D glasses.
Since its release in December, James Cameron’s science-fiction epic has broken box office records and grabbed two Golden Globe awards for best [...]
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