Thursday, August 13, 2009

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Shahrukh Khan to Meet Obama
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Just when you thought the fantastical movies churned out by the Bollywood film industry couldn’t get any stranger, Shahrukh Khan stars in My Name is Khan. The movie, directed by Karan Johar (and starring Kajol, naturally), is set to be released this winter and casts Khan as a Muslim man with Asperger syndrome who comes to post-9-11 America only to be detained by authorities for suspicious behavior. Oh yeah, and then he goes on a quest to meet President Barack Obama (played by Christopher B. Duncan from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) in the hopes of clearing his name.

FOXSTAR would market and distribute the film in India while Fox Searchlight Pictures, which marketed and distributed the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire in the US, will release the film in United States. Slumdog Millionaire was a global success and also swept the Oscars this year. So, SRK fans could expect an Oscar for the Badshah of Bollywood too with My Name is Khan. “I’ve been waiting for my Oscar for 10 years,” said SRK. The film, which has been co-produced by Khan and Johar, examines how a life of a Muslim man from India, living in San Francisco, embarks on a remarkable journey across the United States and inspires people, inviting debate, creating an accidental revolution.
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I’m very curious to see what the response will be to this movie, both in the U.S. and abroad. I like how the article assumes “SRK fans could expect an Oscar for the Badshah of Bollywood too with My Name is Khan.” Yes, because now that the great SRK has decided he wants an Oscar, by golly he will manage to get one even if it takes a quest to the White House to do it.

On a side-note, anyone else seeing a little Khuda Kay Liye, a smidgen of Slumdog Millionaire (with Obama as Latika) and some Taare Zameen Par (which highlights issues of dyslexia) in the plot?

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1 · GurMando on August 9, 2009 05:33 PM · Direct link
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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