Sunday, June 13, 2010

Only Good And Bad


My Name Is Khan
My Name Is Khan is a Hindie movie directed by Karan Johan and produced by Dharma Productions, released in theatres on February 12th 2010. This movie has got good responds from public and became the highest-grossing Bollywood film.
The story is about the venture of Rizwan Khan (Shahrukh Khan) to meet President of USA with flashback. The flashback begins with Rizwan Khan’s childhood where he lived with his beloved mother and little brother, Zakir Khan (Jimmy Shergill). Both Khans are moslems. Rizwan has a kind of autism but he’s genius, he can repair almost anything and his mother is like taking care of him so much that makes Zakir envious. But, in the future, Zakir goes to America for a scholarship and marries Haseena (Sonya Jehan). After their mother dies, Rizwan leaves Bombay and goes to San Fransisco to live with his brother. There, Haseena finds that Rizwan has Asperger's syndrome.
But, what kind of bollywood is it without romance? When Rizwan is doing his job for Zakir, he meets Mandira (Kajol) a Hindu widow with a young son, Sameer or Sam (Yuvaan Makaar). Mandira is Rizwan’s deepest love, so they get married and they have a close neighbor, The Garrick family.
The crisis comes with the September 11th attacks on Twin Tower in New York City. Khan family goes down, the friendship between Sam and Reese Garrick (young son of Mark and Sarah Garrick) turns bad following the death of Mark in doing his job in the middle of the war in Afghanistan. Reese blames Sam because of his moslem identity in his family name. Sam tries to make it up but it ends with his death. He is bullied by older students, which has relation with Reese, when he’s trying to talk to Reese and he dies. Mandira is quite sad and blames herself for marrying a moslem and tells Rizwan to go away and never come back unless he can tell all people and the President of the United States that he’s not a terrorist and neither is Sam. And Rizwan really goes to meet the President to say, “My name is Khan, and I’m not a terrorist.”
This movie presents complex issues, like religion riots, humanity, terrorism, friendship, and the strength of love. I can see that terrorism is not the main issue of this film, it’s more likely about humanity. It’s Khan’s principle that there are only two kind of people in this world, good and bad, no matter what the religion is. Even he marries a Hindu woman though in his origin country there is a kind of strained situation between Hindu and Moslem. I think that’s the most emphasized message that the film tries to tell us. And the film also shows how the humanity crisis is getting worse after the 9/11 attacks. Moslem people are not safe in America, it’s like all moslems are responsible for the attacks, it doesn’t matter if the victim must be an innocent kid like Sam.
What I adore from Hindie movies is that they never fail to make me cry wether at the middle or at the end of the movie. There is one scene that touches me so much in this film. I know that everybody will cry in the scene that Sam died and Mandira screamed to Rizwan but for me it’s nothing than this one, it’s when Reese tried so hard to stop the older students from torturing Sam and protected him but he couldn’t because he was tied up, he could only scream telling them to stop. And when Sam was dying, Reese wanted to help, he didn’t want to leave the dying Sam but he was forced to leave. I mean, Reese was still avoiding Sam at the time, and what touches me is the efforts that Reese made to protect Sam. Bestfriend never really hates you. Unfortunately, Sam didn’t have much time to see that.
Overall, this movie is very touching, many knowledges you’ll gain, at least you’ll know what is Asperger’s Syndrome. You may often see Shahrukh Khan as a cool man, a gentleman, but this time you’ll see him as an autism and his acting is quite brilliant.
It’s just a little awkward when Mandira’s laugh is exaggerated to show us that Rizwan loves that laugh. I know it’s so Hindies but to me the laugh is weird, it becomes not beautiful. Perhaps it’s going to be better if they replace it with just a smile or just Mandira’s speaking sound. Well, that’s what I think.



NB: baru bikin review nya sekarang, tadinya malah gak akan bikin review kalo bukan tugas salah satu matkul.. :)

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