REVIEW: My Name is Khan

AND I AM A COMPLETE SHAM

Why are Hindi film directors obsessed with the plight of Muslims in America? Don’t we have enough discrimination, not just against Muslims, but various other castes and communities in India to launch a thousand films? Or is it for the joy of shooting in sunny California and at other gorgeous locations all over the US that makes the plight of American Muslims a popular hunting ground for Bollywood? If Rizvan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan) had to be canonised as the messiah who integrates people, saves lives, spreads the message of love and liberates the world from all suffering with a stroke of simple-minded genius, couldn’t he just as well have taken his momentous journey across the length and breadth of India and won over hearts in his own backyard?