Movie Review/
My Name is Khan and I am not a Terrorist By Fiz Ramdhani
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“My Name is Khan” came out in the theaters a couple of months ago, all I heard from people were, “Have you seen it? You have to see it!” or “Oh, my God! It’s really good and touching.” Now that I have seen it, the best comment that I can make is that it was all right, considering Khan did really have an important message. My good friend, Farhan Rehman— himself a Bollywood movie fanatic—once said that when Shahrukh Khan stars in a movie, people tend to oversee the quality of the movie by solely focusing on Khan’s hen
acting power. They tend to think that a movie must be great when they see the name “Shahrukh Khan” printed on the movie poster. Now, I guess I can understand what he was saying. The movie started off with Khan’s character, Rizwan Khan, searching the whereabouts of George W. Bush using the Internet. The movie ended with Khan and his wife (played by Kajol) meeting the current U.S. president, Barack Obama (played by an actor that did not even look like Obama), in one of his public appearances. The ultimate reason why
Khan wanted to see the U.S. president was because he simply wanted to say, “My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist.” I have to say, the movie started off strong as it built suspense. If you didn’t know that Khan was autistic, then you might have thought that he, indeed, could potentially intend to do some terrorist act because he always seemed to be nervous. Only after Khan narrated his life story, did I realize that Khan suffered some form of autism. Using a flashback style, the movie revealed the reason behind his intention to meet the U.S. president. It turned out that his family
King Khan, a.k.a. Shahrukh Khan, managed to deliver the profound message the movie was hoping to put forth, but failed to realize that some of the scenes were just absurd. They killed the profundity of the movie entirely. Yes, even for Bollywood movies.
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