The only second movie* in my life that I watched first day (not the first show though) that too after trying multiple times and ways of getting tickets and waiting in the queue for more than half hour (something which I hardly like to do). The movie was extraordinarily rated on TOI (5/5) on the morning of release and also got a fabulous review on Headlines Today the previous night, convincing me to try for tickets first day itself, that too this being a come back flick of Srk-Kajol duo, made it an even more not to miss kind!
The movie though is well made, with really nice acting by Srk and show stealing music by SEL (the ‘tere naina tere naina’ keep my head filled though I don’t have a pair of headphones on my ear!!) and obviously the central theme of the movie about all muslims not being terrorists keep you glued to your seat, still I felt something was missing in the movie, certain parts of it seem not properly connected/ conveyed, and the sequence of events is also confusing on a few occasions ( at least to me).**
MNIK owes a lot to SS & its chief BsT for the publicity it got without spending that extra bit on the additional unplanned promotion of the film. No one so far has dared to stand up so firmly against the old diktats of Bombay ooops Mumbai, which Srk quite well managed to pull off with support from across the country (indirectly only).
And talking about the issue on which SS has targeted Srk and his film, I was watching a talk show on some news channel and happened to get really nice thoughts on the issue and the general reaction of educated youth of the country (remember the majority population in the country is of youth and their voice almost means country’s voice!!)
One gentleman said, since BsT has targeted Srk for making a comment which intended to invite Pakistani cricket players to India for the over hyped IPL, then he should also be targeting the respectable Government of India, its PM, President and the cabinet as such for inviting Pak for peace talks at the same time. If Srk inviting Paki’s is wrong then how can the honorable Govt of India alone be right in SS’s eyes??
One youngster from the audience also mocked at a SS member who was taking part in the talk show via video conferencing, (guess he was scared to be present there, knowing how wrong his party is and what his condition would end up being if he came to the studio in person) this youngster said the SS member something like this ‘Sir, I represent the educated youth of the country and you could well see how you and your party has become a laughing riot stuff in the country as you must have seen even during the show now, take this as a lesson and get wise!!’
Coming back to Srk and why he is not a Fattu, he chose an incredible subject for his movie which people across the world feel and want to convey but fear to do the same. He would have said this one statement a zillion times in the film making it clear enough for everyone across the world ‘My Name is KHAN and I am not a Terrorist’.
Remember he was frisked at some airport in US some time back, he also made sure he gave a glimpse of that to everyone on how he was treated (or better put, how US officials treat people on such instances).
Next he handled the SS issue really well and stood firm with his beliefs and statements by not budging to the threats given by BsT and his troop. Remember last time when our own Mr.Johar personally went to apologize for something even sillier (I get a feeling that Srk must have got some pressure from karan to apologize so that the film doesn’t get affected). But Bravo Srk! He stood to his guns!!
Finally to close this up, Srk said 2 sweet little words to all the ‘sickos’ which I loved the most ‘Shut Up’. I guess that sums it all up.
* First one was ‘China Gate’, yes of the ‘chamma chamma’ fame, that too two shows the same day
**That’s all is the review I could manage to write, just as an attempt though.
Today’s Favorite Line – ‘khush hain hum, kyunki hum phool nahi jo murjha jayen’
Today’s Favorite Song – Tere Naina (MNIK)
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Incidentally, Even I saw the movie on the 1st day (2nd show) impressed by the TOI rating.. :)
The typical KJo movie stretching and the typical bollywood lack of logic in many scenes turned me off..
oh.. lol.. look at the kind of influence newspaper ratings have on us.. & yea the move did feel a lil draggy at times.
1) If SRK so cares about pakistani players, then why didnt he select any of them during auction?
2) Sohail Tanveer in an interview with pakistani tv said bad things about Indian Hindus (After IPL incident), did SRK say anything about it?
SRK has done all this for publicity, and he knew that this movie is about muslims and most of his audience are pakistani NRIs. When he uses pakistani licking for movie promotions, then shiv sena is also right for using SRK bashing for its political gains. SRK did not apologise because if he had, then muslims would have boycotted him. He just used IPL pakistan controversy to his advantage, and NDTV promoted it because for the obvious reasons.
@ Anonymous - I am not taking anyone's side.. but i dont agree to watever u had to say..
1) SRK may or may not care abt pakistani players but as a businessman he couldnt have cared more abt them, he wouldnt afford spending on selecting them and later not having them in india due to security concerns, i guess tats the reason none of the franchise owners selected them ( tats my hunch!!)
2) SRK is neither a politician nor a newsreader to comment on watever, whoever has to say. So ur concern regarding his silence on tanveers comment is baseless. U dont expect ppl to comment on everything happening around the world.
May be he has done this for publicity or watevr, all i said is 'he is the only one who dared to speak up and stick to his words' ( u have a zillion examples of ppl who later apologized or ran for cover!!)
W.r.t ipl controversy helping to promote his movie, dude(or watever) he was not the only one who dint take pakistani players, 7 other franchise owners did the same thing!! few spoke, rest chose not to.. as simple as tat.
this is wat atleast i comprehend!!
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