By Harpreet Kaur

photo: My Name is Khan movie poster

My Name Is Khan may have smashed all records but it left me completely mentally challenged.

It was tough work just sitting through Khan’s nods and blank stares and incoherent talking sometimes and Kajol’s giggles for no reason. It may have come easy to him, there was not much acting and Kajol seemed lost in the movie. The movie never does justice to her acting talent or does she really have it as people say.

The story line seems unbelievable, a person who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome is able to accomplice feats that are impossible by normal human beings – defying terrorists, dealing with prison, being friendly with almost everyone, helping people out, saving the world, journeying across America without any money and help…And meeting the President.

Ahhh! We normal humans cannot achieve all that. Kudos to Khan! His name is Khan and he is not a terrorist!

While Kajol is shown to be a normal woman with a son who marries Khan to seemingly find a happy married life that turns upside down after 9/11 and loses her son to hate from other school children. The rest is where she just cries over split milk.

The direction seems to have not worked its charm although the music tried to save the movie and seems to have succeeded. People shed buckets of tears at the characters and their supreme sacrifices because of the well-placed songs that seemed to push the story forward.

The spark between Kajol and Khan is gone forever there can never be another DDLJ between them again. There seemed to be no spark in both their acting and I was tired in the first 25 minutes of the movie itself.

I feel mentally lost and I never want to feel that way again, sorry guys but am going to pass Khan and Kajol the next when I see them and Yash Johar.

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