Let me be honest with my review here. This imbecilic movie has nothing that the 'raving' reviews promise that it does. I watched this movie without any high expectations because i somehow knew it was going to be soapy and thats exactly how it was! And i realized that all the hype was about SRK and Kajol uniting on-screen after 10 years, which I'm not particularly fond of. That said, now let me start with the actual review if the movie..
This is one of the dumber movies you ll see and the fact that it is surrounded by so much hype doesn't make it any better(actually, it makes them worse). Let me start with characterization...
The movie has a handful of underdeveloped characters. for instance, SRK's in-law, when she was shown as a student of psychology and and that she found out his syndrome i was expecting that she would have a chunky role in treating his condition but one never gets to see her in the movie alone. In every frame she appears after that she's just a insignificant person in the entourage.
Next, let me talk about the script. Karan himself seems not to be sure if he's making a love story or a movie with a 'purported' message and the scene where Kajol asks SRK to go tell everyone that his name is khan and he is not a terrorist is the most prosaic of all prosaic stuff int he movie. And the fact that it happens to be the 'MacGuffin' of the plot makes it all the more painful to watch. And SRK and Kajol marrying just like that and separating even swifter s just utterly unconvincing!
Next come the banal dialogs. The scene immediately after Sam's death in the ER when SRK comes back after referring to a dictionary or something(he finds out what spleen rupture is) Kajol tells him that Sam is dead using the most risible dialog of all 'time o' death 8.05 pm'
clichés!'That all hackers have to be fat dudes with longhair and beard in a dim lit room with lots of computer monitors around them' is a cliché you must be familiar of and is found here(more reason to hate). And there are a couple of black American ethnic stereotypes.
And the fact that Bollywood has gone this far to make a movie about a social issue in America makes me laugh even more. Don't tell me its a universal issue because you know thats not what i mean. There are a lot of social issues in India Karan and you try your hands at them. And Bollywood doesn't seem to realize how awful its movies are and that it isn't ready to go global!
Summing up: My Name Is Khan is a preposterous, overly-long, boring, eager-to-please piece of crap!
This is one of the dumber movies you ll see and the fact that it is surrounded by so much hype doesn't make it any better(actually, it makes them worse). Let me start with characterization...
The movie has a handful of underdeveloped characters. for instance, SRK's in-law, when she was shown as a student of psychology and and that she found out his syndrome i was expecting that she would have a chunky role in treating his condition but one never gets to see her in the movie alone. In every frame she appears after that she's just a insignificant person in the entourage.
Next, let me talk about the script. Karan himself seems not to be sure if he's making a love story or a movie with a 'purported' message and the scene where Kajol asks SRK to go tell everyone that his name is khan and he is not a terrorist is the most prosaic of all prosaic stuff int he movie. And the fact that it happens to be the 'MacGuffin' of the plot makes it all the more painful to watch. And SRK and Kajol marrying just like that and separating even swifter s just utterly unconvincing!
Next come the banal dialogs. The scene immediately after Sam's death in the ER when SRK comes back after referring to a dictionary or something(he finds out what spleen rupture is) Kajol tells him that Sam is dead using the most risible dialog of all 'time o' death 8.05 pm'
clichés!'That all hackers have to be fat dudes with longhair and beard in a dim lit room with lots of computer monitors around them' is a cliché you must be familiar of and is found here(more reason to hate). And there are a couple of black American ethnic stereotypes.
And the fact that Bollywood has gone this far to make a movie about a social issue in America makes me laugh even more. Don't tell me its a universal issue because you know thats not what i mean. There are a lot of social issues in India Karan and you try your hands at them. And Bollywood doesn't seem to realize how awful its movies are and that it isn't ready to go global!
Summing up: My Name Is Khan is a preposterous, overly-long, boring, eager-to-please piece of crap!