My name is Khan

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Movie
German title My name is Khan
Original title My Name Is Khan
माय नेम इज़ ख़ान
My Name Is Khan.jpg
Country of production India
original language Hindi
Publishing year 2010
length 155 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Karan Johar
script Shibani Bathija
Niranjan Iyengar
production Hiroo Yash Johar
Karan Johar
Gauri Khan
Shah Rukh Khan
music Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
camera Ravi K. Chandran
cut Deepa Bhatia
occupation
synchronization

My Name Is Khan ( Hindi माय नेम इज़ ख़ान māy nem iz kh ān ; shorthand MNIK ) is an Indian Bollywood film that premiered on February 12 at the 2010 Berlinale . The director was Karan Johar based on a script by Shibani Bathija , producers were Hiroo Yash Johar and Gauri Khan . The main characters are Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol . The shooting was jointly supervised by Dharma Productions and Red Chillies Entertainment . The distributor is FOX Star Entertainment , which bought the film rights for 1 billion Indian rupees , making it the second most expensive Bollywood film after Blue . My Name Is Khan was the most successful Indian film abroad in 2010 and the most anticipated film in India of the same year. The cinema release in Germany was on June 11, 2010.

action

Rizvan Khan, an Indian-American man from a Muslim family, is Asperger's - Autistic . He cannot lie, takes everything literally, does not understand irony, can only show his feelings to a limited extent and cannot empathize with what others think or mean. He can only allow physical contact to a very limited extent. It is also based on exact times. On a trip he is suspected of being a terrorist due to racist attributions and his atypical behavior (due to his impairment). It is searched by customs, but nothing is found. Customs officers ask him where he is going, to which his answer is: To the President of the United States (at this point George W. Bush ). The officers let him go, one of them mocking Rizvan; he should order a Howdie from him for the president . Rizvan takes this very seriously, he writes down the man's name and wants to greet the president. Later that evening, Rizvan continued to write in his diary, which he formulated as a letter to his wife Mandira. The diary begins with Rizvan's youth.

Even as a boy, Rizvan is very intelligent, which is particularly evident from his extraordinary talent in the areas of cognition and memory that goes along with his Asperger's Syndrome. But since his social disorder was never diagnosed, he is thought to be insane. Only his single mother understands what he is made of and tries to give him a good education. Eventually, a professor realizes Rizvan's ability to learn and becomes his mentor. Rizvan is quickly fluent in English and continues to develop his talent for repairing mechanical and electronic equipment. Since he will soon be offering his services for money, he can help feed the very poor family, which is why his mother is very proud of him. Rizvan's younger brother Zakir feels disadvantaged because the mother's attention is often only on Rizvan due to the impairment. He thinks Rizvan is preferred, but in fact his mother just wants to see Rizvan get through life while his brother is already able to cope with his own life. But the resentment and jealousy are more available and so Rizvans leaves brother as an adult India and moved to San Francisco . There he gets married and wants to have as little to do with his brother as possible. This is sorry for the bad relationship. However, it is not possible for him to explain this feeling to his brother. Rizvan also remembers something else: his mother once told him that he should never forget that everyone is the same, that under no circumstances should one distinguish between Hindu and Muslim. Only their actions distinguish people. So there are only good people who do good and bad people who do bad.

Right now: Rizvan is looking for somewhere to stay for the night, but the motel he reaches is already full. The operator is a Hindu Indian. Since he also suspects a Hindu in Rizvan, he wants to offer him a place to stay in his own house. Suddenly there is noise in front of the house as someone tries to break in the windows of the motel and shouts anti-Muslim slogans. The motel owner runs outside and shoots a fleeing car with his rifle. He also complains about Muslims who, in his eyes, are responsible for the fact that he is threatened because he is mistaken for a Muslim. Rizvan gets scared and runs away. The man is confused and calls after him, so Rizvan turns back briefly and reveals himself as a Muslim based on his name; he literally says: "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist." He repeats this sentence many times over the course of the film, but for now he only leaves the shocked motel owner behind. He continues to remember ...

After his mother dies, Rizvan's brother takes him a little reluctantly in with himself and his wife Hasina. After all, it is Rizvan's sister-in-law (a psychologist) who diagnoses Asperger's Syndrome and wants to help him lead a normal life. Rizvan gets a job as a cosmetic salesman in his brother's company. On the one hand, the position is unsuitable for him, on the one hand, because it is cognitively under-challenged and, on the other hand, it is inappropriate due to his social difficulties; on the other hand, it enables him to earn money. So he wanders through the city and at some point ends up in front of the hairdressing salon where the pretty Mandira works. Before he has even exchanged a word with her, Rizvan is in love with her. When they first met him in the salon, he said he had Asperger's Syndrome. After a short time he can win their friendship. The two meet more often, and Rizvan also befriends Mandira's son Samir (nickname Sam), whom she raises alone.

Eventually he decides to marry Mandira, although communication is still a bit difficult and Mandira is a Hindu . He asks her to do so, but Mandira explains that he cannot just ask for her hand. So Rizvan thinks up a possibility that should look as romantic as possible to Mandira. After her work, he waits for her in front of the hairdressing salon - and gets angry when she comes out in a yellow jacket. Yellow is a very intolerable color for Rizvan and that fact is deeply anchored in his autistic spectrum disorder. Mandira didn't know that, she apologizes to Rizvan and can calm him down. Then Rizvan wants to invite her on a date; to which Mandira replies that if he can show her a place in San Francisco that she doesn't know yet, then she will marry him. It will be a bit difficult, because Mandira has lived in the city for a long time and so the first attempts fail. One day Rizvan wakes them up at dawn and takes them up a mountain, from where they can admire the sunrise over the city. Mandira agrees to become his wife, and the two of them and Sam, who now sees a father in Rizvan, become a happy family. Rizvan's little peculiarities will soon hardly be a problem. They are good friends with the neighboring Christian American family Garrick, whose son Reese is the same age as Sam. The two are best friends. To perfect her luck, Mandira opens her own hair salon.

Happy family life is suddenly disrupted when the Twin Towers are bombed on September 11, 2001 . From then on, life for American Muslims becomes unbearable. They are excluded, disadvantaged, attacked and bullied. Mandira's shop, which bears the Muslim name Khan due to her wedding to Rizvan, is no longer visited and goes bankrupt. Only the solidarity in the family and the friendship with the Garricks let Rizvan, Mandira and Sam keep their composure. But that will be over after a few more years. After the Garrick family's father was killed as a reporter in the war in Afghanistan, his son stopped talking to Sam and called him a dirty Muslim. He transfers the blame for the fact that his father was shot to everything Muslim. But Sam tries to maintain the boy’s friendship, which is very important to him. One day he talks to him alone on the soccer field, and the situation escalates. A group of older boys intervenes and verbally abuses Sam before they beat him up. Reese tries to stop the group, but is prevented by one of the boys. In the course of the violent confrontation, Sam dies. The older boys flee and threaten the Garricks' son with death to remain silent.

While Mandira has a nervous breakdown, Rizvan apparently initially pushes the fact away by sticking to medical data. In addition, because of his Asperger's Syndrome, Rizvan cannot understand why anyone should tell them that they are a terrorist. After a police officer tries to question the couple, Mandira goes back to the crime scene to be close to Sam as she refuses to accept the fact that her son is dead. Rizvan follows her, he is helpless and cannot do anything with Mandira's deep despair. Mandira angrily yells at him that it is his fault that Sam died, that the couple killed him at the wedding because he was only killed because of his Muslim surname. Rizvan can only helplessly repeat that he is not a terrorist , but Mandira is unable to respond to him because of her blind anger. She sees herself unable to continue the marriage with Rizvan and tells him to go away. A little confused, Rizvan asks when he should come back. Mandira says to him: "Tell the president that you are not a terrorist and then you can come back from me!" Rizvan takes her at her word and goes to look for the president. Even months later, Mandira is still beside herself with grief and anger. Again and again she wants to persuade the police to continue working on the case, and after the file is closed she takes matters into her own hands.

Meanwhile, Rizvan travels across the country for months, always on the trail of the president. When his money is used up, he repairs cars for a fee. Once he met a boy who had a bicycle accident and was slightly injured. Rizvan carries him home, where he is greeted with exuberant thanks from the boy's mother, "Mama Jenny". He stays there as a guest for a few days and also goes to church with them. The fact that he is tolerated there despite his belief gives Rizvan strength. For the first time since breaking up with Mandira, he talks about Sam. Then he sings with the church. It is his and Mandira's favorite song "We shall overcome". Rizvan travels on with renewed confidence.

Rizvan is still strictly observing his beliefs. On his trip, he made the acquaintance of a Muslim couple. After they have eaten together, Rizvan says it is time for his afternoon prayer. The couple are visibly baffled and tell him to be careful because there are non-Muslim Americans all over the restaurant, most of whom are traveling on the same bus as Rizvan and could cause him trouble. Rizvan doesn't care, he goes outside the restaurant, unrolls his prayer rug and prays undeterred in front of everyone present, who stare at him like crazy but say nothing about it.

When Rizvan later prays in a mosque, Dr. Faisal Rahman - an Islamist preacher - incited some believers there with the help of a picture, whereupon Rizvan said in front of the whole group that the preacher was lying and portrayed the picture from a different point of view. He replies that their God provides the way of love and that everything else comes from the devil. He then calls the FBI , which later arrests the preacher, but initially does not respond.

It seems that Rizvan has reached the president; He is waiting in a large crowd for the speech of the president, who is on an election campaign tour . He tries to shout his message to the president, but when the crowd hears the word "terrorist" the people panic and Rizvan is arrested, repeatedly tortured and interrogated. Two Indian-American reporters who filmed Rizvan in the crowd become aware of his fate and report on him on a news program, although the owner of the station initially did not want to report on Rizvan. The whole of the USA and a US Senator learn about Rizvan about the hard-won report, including his brother and his wife. Many Muslims feel encouraged by Rizvan's story; so his sister-in-law is finally no longer ashamed to wear a headscarf in public, which Zakir, her husband, advised her after the headscarf was torn from her head in public.

Even Mandira, who for an eternity had dedicated herself solely to the fight for justice for Sam, sees the report after the call from her brother-in-law and sets off to see Rizvan again, whom she sent away from her deep sadness and blind anger would have. Before that, the Garrick's son finally confessed, also based on the report, and reveals the names of the perpetrators. For the sake of the friendship she still has with the boy's mother, she asks the police to reduce his sentence. Now that she knows what happened to her boy, she realizes how much injustice she has done her husband and wants to tell him that. Rizvan becomes a well-known personality in the USA, hardly anyone does not know about him. A huge crowd awaits him in front of the prison on the day of his release.

After more than 15 days, Rizvan is released. Mandira is also there, but Rizvan decides at the last minute not to go to her when he spots her at a taxi because he wants to keep his promise. During his imprisonment, the African American Senator Barack Obama won the presidential election and is the new President of the United States and thus Rizvan's new contact person for his concerns.

But even that still has to wait, because shortly afterwards Rizvan hears that Hurricane Katrina caused flooding and damage in Wilhelmina, Georgia . He rushes there and tries to help the victims of the hurricane, including "Mama Jenny" and her son. The residents of the small village have barricaded themselves in the church, where they are safe from the water for the time being, but neither supplied nor protected from the cold. Many of them get sick and succumb to injuries. The dead cannot be buried and the missing cannot be searched for. Despite Mama Jenny's statement that Rizvan couldn't fix anything this time either, he stayed and did his best, e.g. B. he wants to seal the church roof, which threatens to collapse. Disaster relief is a long time coming.

This is where Rizvan's new celebrity turns into an asset. Because after his sudden disappearance, the press and pretty much every television station are looking for him for a much sought-after interview. But Rizvan is as if swallowed by the earth. Eventually the two reporters who covered him find out where he is and what he's doing. Many people come to Wilhelmina to help with the supply and reconstruction. Rizvan's brother and sister-in-law Hasina are also there and very happy to see him. Finally, Mandira also appears, but Rizvan only sees her briefly, there is no conversation yet: Because someone else in the crowd has come along: A supporter of the arrested preacher Dr. Rahman stabs Rizvan in revenge . He is taken to the hospital and when he comes to there, Mandira is sitting next to his bed. She has read Rizvan's diary letter to her, which he wrote on his trip and which describes everything that he cannot express. Mandira wants him to come home. But Rizvan insists on going to the new president.

The latter granted him a brief audience. Then Rizvan says to him: "Mr. President, my name is Khan and I am not a terrorist. "

synchronization

actor role Voice actor
Shah Rukh Khan Rizvan Khan Pascal Breuer
Kajol Devgan Mandira Natascha Geisler
Jimmy Shergill Zakir Khan Sascha Rotermund
Sonja Jehan Hasina Wicki Kalaitzi
Benny Nieves Inspector Garcia Olaf Reichmann
Arif Zakaria Dr. Rehman Michael Iwannek
Carl Marino Officer Vaughn Peter Lontzek
Sheetal Menon Radha Simone Kabst
Katie Amanda Keane Sarah Cathlen Gawlich
Dominic Renda mark Sven Gerhardt
Kenton Duty Reese Leonard Walenta

criticism

“Director Karan Johar (“ Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad ”) is not afraid of big emotions. The joie de vivre that "My Name Is Khan" exudes despite the serious theme seems too thick in some scenes - and yet the uninhibitedly romantic film unfolds an uninhibited magic that you can hardly escape. "

- Cinema

“Although the film makes some concessions to a western audience - instead of scenes in which the characters sing and dance themselves, there are just a few assembly sequences with Indian songs - but it does not ingratiate itself with the dramaturgy of Hollywood cinema. The film changes wildly from an over-the-top romantic comedy to the tragic melodrama, leaving behind narrative stringency as well as a credibility committed to realism. It seems paradoxical that real political events keep penetrating this inflated, artificial world. "

- Critic.de

Prices

Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Karan Johar 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for My Name Is Khan . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 947 K).
  2. ^ Cinema India . Rutgers University Press, (Retrieved 2007-08-01).
  3. ↑ Net Admin: Film KHAN a true story: Karan Johar . In: Bolywoodz.net . February 13, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2009.
  4. ↑ Nyay Bhushan: Fox Star to distribute 'Khan' . In: The Hollywood Reporter , August 7, 2009, p. 8. Retrieved September 5, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hollywoodreporter.com  
  5. ↑ My Name is Khan. Sprecherforscher.de, accessed on December 14, 2011 .
  6. ^ Review of My Name Is Khan on Cinema.de, accessed on June 12, 2010
  7. ↑ Review of My Name Is Khan on critic.de, accessed on December 16, 2010