This time around karan johar has tried to make a movie with a message rather than the usual love story or the family drama we normally expect from him...
He does deliver two messages that, not all muslims in the world are terrorists...and that good people are good and bad people are bad irrespective of their religions....
the messages are great in their simplicity...and it would have turned out to be a great movie if the movie was kept simple, erasing the complicated and unnecessary subplots and twists...
i loved the character of Rizwan khan, an autistic guy with asperger's syndrome (and shahrukh khan does the role well...some say it is one of his best performances..am not sure of it though..i have liked him in lot of other movies to be biased for this particular role)..and i actually had goosebumps when rizwan says it for the first time "my name is khan and i am not a terrorist".The simplicity of the character...the "ability to repair almost anything"...the way he courts mandira.....his honesty as a salesman of herbal beauty products..his ability to memorize everything.....the guy is just great...the simplicity of the way he lives touches us to the core...
But as I said, the subplots and twists and the repetition of the two messages over and over again, takes away the charm of the movie..
the movie centers around how muslims are viewed in USA pre and post 9/11....and how the selfless love of one man overcomes hurdles that come up....somehow I didnt like anything in the movie except the character of Rizwan khan, that i dont know what more to write about...
Somehow I feel that the movie lets us down...we go to the theaters with so many expectations and the movie fails to live upto those...am glad KJo ventured into a different territory and tried to make a movie thats different than the previous ones....
I just feel bad that a movie that could have turned out to be one of its kind and an all time classic fails to hit the mark!
watch it if u r a big time shahrukh fan and if u dont ever miss any of his movies..
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