Saturday, February 20, 2010

My name is Singh and I was tortured by a Khan who was not a terrorist

Everyone is writing, talking, buzzing and thinking about MNIK. That's how you define a perfectly executed marketing campaign which was carried so seamlessly that MNIK became a household mantra. But that's precisely where all good things about MNIK ends. Yes it's a dissappointment to watch the movie even on laptop sans the cinemas; not because of the threats issued by Sena but simply because it tries to make you belief on so many things which are simply not possible resulting in psychological torture.

It makes you belief that there are two type of people in this world: Good people who do all great things and bad people who will go to any extent to disrupt the good ones (Wasn't that obvious). As far as my understanding there are only one type of people and they do both type of acts.

Secondly it also depicts that passing on the message "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist" to the President of America will miraculously somehow bring in Global peace and will re-establish the basic human rights of Muslims in America which were severely restricted after 9/11.

I have stopped paying attention to goof ups in Hindi movies but can't stop me from thinking "How is live telecast of all heroic acts of Shahrukh possible when all lines of communication were cut off due to hurricane Katrina?"

Though biggest disappointment is SRK himself. He does the repeat act of old age Veer from Veer-Zara with his neck rotating as if a stepper motor has been fitted in it and his voice stammering with the same pitch and frequency. Kudos to him for brilliantly bridging the gap between Old age and patients of Asparagus Syndrome.

Would like to end this post with some captions which my friends put up after watching MNIK:
"How Lame is Khan"
"There are two type of people in this world: Wise and those who have watched MNIK"
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I am delighted to know that http://movies.rediff.com/report/2010/feb/18/mnik-faces-near-empty-halls.htm "