Comments on: Film: My Name Is Khan

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:36:22 +0000

I generally avoid all the ‘khans’ movies. This one for sure will be given a miss, especially after I had the misfortune of seeing Barkha’s interview with SRK after the shiv sena standoff. My god. I dont know who is the best in melodrama – SRK or Barkha?

If you’ve time you can read a transcript with liberal dose of my angst in my blog.

God! There has to be a way to censor NDTV for stupifying the mass with paid PR masquerading as news.

By: Sumedha

Sumedha — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:26:16 +0000

I felt exactly the same way when I entered the move theatre. I’d spent the last week reading about Shiv Sena and their stupidities (to put it mildly) for a research paper, and I wanted so desperately to love the movie. Plus, I was watching SRK after a loooong time, and I really like him.

The movie disappointed. I spent the first half hoping that it would get better, and the second half making bets with my friends about what would happen next. Would Obama himself visit Khan in the hospital? Would Khan brilliant foil a terrorist plot and thus endear himself to the entire US?

The movie was really bad, I agree. I realise how irritating SRK’s superman complex was after reading this post. The entire hurricane thing annoyed me to no end, not just because I didn’t realise that the movie was portraying Katrina, which is why there were no rescue workers on the scene. The whole imprisonment-torture thing was not done well: they didn’t make it important enough.

And to top it all off, the only reason why Khan had to meet the President was not because he had a point, not because he had something to say or something to prove. No, it was because his wife told him to, and “Khans never break their word”. That was the cherry on top of the average cake for me.

And it was WAY too long. It really should have ended an hour before it did.

But I realised later: it’s okay that I didn’t like the movie. I was against the Shiv Sena, I was on SRK’s side, just by spending $11 to go see the movie. I don’t need to like it to support SRK against Shiv Sena.

By: Neha Viswanathan

Neha Viswanathan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:50:19 +0000

Multimenon: I think the film is worth watching for some bright sparks in the first hour. But on the whole I wish I had waited for the DVD. But I am hooked on the whole idea of watching the film as soon as it releases.

kavi: True that. But I don’t think SRK intended that. The loss in takings for the first weekend must have hit the producers hard. But controversy helps sell.

By: kavi

kavi — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:11:24 +0000

On another note, i wonder if there was a better way of getting police protection, 24 hour national coverage and attention to a release !

The next film thats going to come up… will sure have an air of controversy around it !

By: MultiMenon

MultiMenon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:44:39 +0000

That was an honest review.Yeah,there has been much hype in for this one with the TIMES rating it a 5 even prior to its release date.I would wanna watch it anyways..

Cheers,
Nikhil

By: Neha Viswanathan

Neha Viswanathan — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:15:11 +0000

Thanks pa. I think I might have torn the screen down myself if the film was even a minute longer. Out of sheer boredom! :)

By: Kuppakkara Saibu

Kuppakkara Saibu — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:37:47 +0000

Thanks buddy for what I think to be an objective review…hmm. you may have watched the film without a shiv sainik (on a shivratri day!) threatening to tear down the screen…