Movie Review: " My Name Is Khan

        My Name Is Khan is the fourth directorial venture of Karan Johar.

 Rizwan Khan is a Muslim child who grew up with his brother Zakir and his mother  in a middle class family in the Borivali section of Mumbai . Rizwan is different from other children. His family for a life in the United States.

Rizwan also begins to work for Zakir and in the process he meets a Hindu woman, Mandira and her young son, Sameer or Sam , from a previous marriage. Mandira is a hairdresser by profession.
Rizwan Khan’s essential goodness that tells you unwaveringly – his name is Khan and he is not a terrorist. Just the super intelligent Rizwan, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism.
Rizwan takes Mandira's request seriously, and thus sets out on a journey that takes him from one US state to another, in order to first meet President George W.Bush and laterPresident-elect Barack Obama.

Reese confesses to Mandira and reveals the identity of the boys whokilled Sam. She informsDetective Garcia who has been assisting her on the case, and Detective Garcia arrests them. Mandira later gets a call from Sarah to forgive Rizwan, "I've lost my husband, don't lose him."

It’s an unlikely romance. But it’s dealt with a light touch. There they are sitting on either side of the bed after their wedding with Mandira telling Rizwan, who doesn’t like to be hugged, that this is something they can’t do without touching. It’s a scene that could quite easily have gone wrong,  it doesn’t.
Mandirra’s son Sam, Rizwan’s   best friend, is subjected to a vicious race attack because he takes on Rizwan’s surname.
This is a US where chanting the name of Allah gets you into trouble, where the word terrorist and Khan in conjunction can put you behind bars. Rizwan moves from being a terror suspect to a nationwide hero who exposes a terror mastermind. And then, the man with the mission who travels to Wilhelmina that is literally drowning in a hurricane to supervise a heroic rescue mission.
There’s Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush and Obama too. The US’ first African American president is voted in and, in that final feel good moment Rizwan meets him in front of thousands of people and his goodness is validated.
The music by Shankar Ehsaan Loy is superb. This is not a film without flaws.