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My Name is Khan
Director: Karan Johar
Release Date: 12 February 2010
Starring: Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Yuvaan Makaar, Zarina Wahab, Tanay Chheda, Jimmy Shergill
Language: Hindi, Urdu, English
Country: India
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My Name Is Khan is a 2010 Bollywood film directed by Karan Johar, with a screenplay by Shibani Bathija, produced by Hiroo Yash Johar and Gauri Khan, and starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol. It is overseen by both Dharma Productions and Red Chillies Entertainment and will be distributed by FOX Star Entertainment. Cinematography is by Ravi K. Chandran, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy composed the film’s score, choreography is by Farah Khan, and lyrics were written by Niranjan Iyengar. Visual Effects are by Red Chillies VFX.
My Name is Khan debuted in Abu Dhabi UAE on 10 February 2010. It released globally in theaters on 12 February 2010. It will also be screened as part of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival’s Official Selection that same month. In the months leading up to its release, the film has also been involved in some controversy related to international airport security and Indian politics.
Rizvan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan) suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, a disorder which makes it difficult for people to interact socially, and comes to live with his younger brother (Jimmy Shergill) in the US after their mother dies. He can?t express love and is uncomfortable interacting with people.
In San Francisco, he meets hairstylist Mandira (Kajol), a free-spirited woman who lives with her six-year old son, Sameer or Sam (Yuvaan Makaar), from a failed marriage. While Rizvan falls in love with Mandira, she too grows fond of the good-natured Rizvan. An unlikely romance later, Mandira gets married to Rizvan, and move to suburban Danville, California.
The Khans’ perfect existence gets disrupted, however, after the September 11 attacks on the twin towers in New York City. The family experience prejudice in their community, and Sam gets involved in a tussle with a group of fellow students who beat him up in a racially motivated schoolyard fight.
Sam dies of his injuries and a shattered Mandira blames Rizvan for his death. “He died only because his name was Khan,” yells Mandira and asks Rizvan to leave her. Rizvan tries to assure Mandira that things would get better, but she tells him that as long as he remains a Khan, he would be looked upon as a terrorist, even if he persuaded the US president otherwise. Rizvan sets out on a journey that takes him from one US state to another, following the movements of the president, for whom he has a message: “My name is Khan, and I’m not a terrorist.”
Cast:
- Shahrukh Khan as Rizwan Khan
- Kajol as Mandira
- Yuvaan Makaar as Sameer (Sam)
- Zarina Wahab as Rizwan’s mother
- Tanay Chheda as Rizwan Khan (as a child)
- Jimmy Shergill as Zakir Khan
- Sonya Jehan as Haseena Khan
- Katie A. Keane as Sarah
- Benny Nieves as Detective Garcia
- Christopher B. Duncan as Barack Obama
- Parvin Dabas as Bobby Ahuja
- Arjun Mathur as Raj
- Sugandha Garg as Komal
- Sheetal Menon as Radha
- Kenton Duty as Reese Garick
- Michael Arnold as Reese Garick (as a child)
- Dominic Renda as Mark Garrick
- Arif Zakaria as Faisal Rahman
- Vinay Pathak as Jitesh
- Jennifer Echols as Mama Jenny
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