To watch or not to watch "My Name is Khan". The Karan Johar brand of cinema is not one that would have me queuing up at the Box Office. That said, I just realized that I have watched every movie of his at the cinema including Kuch Kuch Hota Hai twice ! Oh darn those silly attributes of adolescence, the sight of seeing Kajol making me go weak in the knees. SRK is well....SRK, irritating at best, and is especially bad in KJo movies.
As the protagonist in Hamlet, who is not able to decide clearly about avenging his father's death but instead is influenced or manipulated by various characters, I have finally taken a decision on the following basis : -
a) Rated very poor by my college friends. It has nothing to do with the fact that they are a part of the RSS US branch and are staunch Thackeray supporters. Nope, this fact must have hardly influenced them.
b) Rated bad by Mr. Same Difference, one of the followers of this blog and a blogger himself. Now a little background about him - this bloke is a serious movie buff, with films like Hello Brother, Singh is Kinng and Jaani Dushman are often on he top of his DVD shelf. A movie is good he claims only if he is rolling on the floor laughing or one that induces bowel movements. (This hypothesis awaits practical results, if I may add)
c) Rated average 3 star by other one of my friends who goes by the very video gameish name of Sky Trooper although he hasn't got anywhere close to any sort of flying object for the past three years including the common housefly. He is a chick magnet though and have heard him sometimes envy the King Khan for attracting more girls than him. He asserts though that his counter is incremental and by 2041, will actually surpass SRK in that regard. A vital stat this, ladies and gentlemen just like the population race between India and China.
Majority wins then. Sensible reasons I suppose. Given that a mentally stable Khan is hammy enough to get on the nerves , so an autistic one would give me a nervous breakdown. Giving this one a miss. Watching the trailers again does not invoke any sort of curiosity, none whatsoever. Sorry Kajol :P . Will wait for DVD.
As the protagonist in Hamlet, who is not able to decide clearly about avenging his father's death but instead is influenced or manipulated by various characters, I have finally taken a decision on the following basis : -
a) Rated very poor by my college friends. It has nothing to do with the fact that they are a part of the RSS US branch and are staunch Thackeray supporters. Nope, this fact must have hardly influenced them.
b) Rated bad by Mr. Same Difference, one of the followers of this blog and a blogger himself. Now a little background about him - this bloke is a serious movie buff, with films like Hello Brother, Singh is Kinng and Jaani Dushman are often on he top of his DVD shelf. A movie is good he claims only if he is rolling on the floor laughing or one that induces bowel movements. (This hypothesis awaits practical results, if I may add)
c) Rated average 3 star by other one of my friends who goes by the very video gameish name of Sky Trooper although he hasn't got anywhere close to any sort of flying object for the past three years including the common housefly. He is a chick magnet though and have heard him sometimes envy the King Khan for attracting more girls than him. He asserts though that his counter is incremental and by 2041, will actually surpass SRK in that regard. A vital stat this, ladies and gentlemen just like the population race between India and China.
Majority wins then. Sensible reasons I suppose. Given that a mentally stable Khan is hammy enough to get on the nerves , so an autistic one would give me a nervous breakdown. Giving this one a miss. Watching the trailers again does not invoke any sort of curiosity, none whatsoever. Sorry Kajol :P . Will wait for DVD.
Pretty shitty movie tbh, but that is what was the expectation. What else can you expect when K Jo tries to be intellectual. K Jo and his gay partner SRK come up with this laughable factually incorrect 'master piece', and I am not even going to talk about the relevance of the alleged islamophobia the movie tries to address.. Katrina ( the hurricane variety and not the babe) rocks US months before Obama become the president. The Obama-esque character in the movie is a goon whose English diction would make Mary Joseph look like Willaim Wordsworth.
I found the portrayal of blacks in the movie quite wrongly stereotypical.Black groups should totally protest against the movie.
Raven, you have to watch this movie for all its fallacies.
The controversy with Bal Thackeray is really dumb. It shows how wrong our priorities are as a nation.
Why is it that all such US based terror movies that Bollywood produces are full of shit and moreover factually incorrect- New York, Kurrrrban ( did i miss an 'r') and My name is Khan. In New York Niel nitin mukesh leaves NYC the night of the 9-11 attacks, when its a well known fact that all exits to and from NYC were closed for 2 days post the attacks. In spite of having such large budgets, these douchebags just don't do the bare minimum amount of research.
Mail me your number. I'll be coming stateside and would camp with you for a day or two :-p