My Name Is Khan - Wikipedia. My Name Is Khan. My Name Is Khan was the highest- grossing Bollywood film overseas at the time, which was then overtaken by 3 Idiots. In the overseas markets, the film grossed . Blu- ray in India, plus a DVD release worldwide followed on 1. August 2. 01. 0. Rizwan is different from other children, however. He has certain gifts, particularly a special ability to repair mechanical things. His difference leads to special tutoring from a reclusive scholar and extra attention from his mother, both of which lead to heightened jealousy from his brother Zakir, who eventually leaves his family for a life in the United States. Despite this resentment, as an adult Zakir (Jimmy Shergill) sponsors Rizwan (Shah Rukh Khan) to come and live with him in San Francisco after the death of their mother. It is at this time that Zakir's wife, Haseena, a psychologist, diagnoses Rizwan with Asperger's syndrome. Despite his limitations, Rizwan begins to work for Zakir as a sales rep for Zakir's company, a skin care product line. In the process he meets a Hindu woman, Mandira (Kajol) and her young son, Sameer from a previous marriage. Mandira owns a successful high- end salon and is drawn to Rizwan's vulnerable honesty. Despite Zakir's hostility to the match and that it is forbidden for a Muslim man to marry a woman from religions other than from other Abrahamic faiths, Khan and Mandira marry and settle down in the fictional town of Banville.
They live next door to Mark and Sarah Garrick and their young son, Reese. Both Mandira and Sameer take Rizwan's last name as their own. The Khans' perfect existence gets disrupted, however, after the September 1. New York City. Mark, a journalist, is sent to cover the war in Afghanistan and dies there, much to both Sarah and Reese's distress. At the same time, the Khan family begins to experience hostility in their community, as well as other Muslims too and Reese begins to turn against Sam as well. One afternoon, an argument between them turns into a racially motivated schoolyard fight between Sameer and a gang of older students. Reese, acting on behalf of Sameer, tries to stop the fight, but is held back and Sameer, who pushes the gang to their temper by swearing at them, is finally finished off when a gang member kicks a soccer ball at him. Sameer later dies from his injuries. The gang then silences Reese by threatening to beat him up if he tells the authorities about it. A shattered Mandira blames Rizwan for Sameer's death, stating that Sameer . When he asks her what he has to do to be together with Mandira, she sarcastically tells him that he has to tell the people of the United States and the President that his name is Khan and that he is not a terrorist. 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 and later the new President- elect. The second part of this series of articles on Eyes Wide Shut takes a closer look at the elite secret society discovered by the film’s main character, Bill Harford. Korean movie reviews from 2009. Source: Korean Film Council. Seoul population: 10.2 million. During this quest, he travels to Wilhemina, Georgia and befriends Mama Jenny and her son Joel. It is revealed that Mama Jenny's husband, Joel's father, who was a U. S Army soldier, also died in the war in Afghanistan. Later, in Los Angeles, he prays in a mosque and overhears violent rhetoric from Dr. He reports this to the FBI but there is no response at that moment. Later, while waiting in a crowd to meet President George W. Bush and repeating again and again, . He is later released after a media campaign by some Indian student reporters Raj, Komal and Bobby Ahuja who prove his innocence by unearthing his attempts to inform the FBI about Faisal Rahman. After his release, he returns to hurricane- hit Wilhemina to help Mama Jenny and her son. His efforts attract media attention and numerous Muslims come to help as well, including Zakir and Haseena. At the same time, a remorseful Reese confesses to Mandira and reveals the identities of the gang who killed Sameer. Mandira then simply says that it is still not enough. She then informs Detective Garcia who has been assisting her on the case, and Detective Garcia arrests the gang. Mandira later gets a call from Sarah to forgive Rizwan, . However, at the moment she arrives, Rizwan is stabbed by one of Dr. Faisal Rahman's followers, who accuses him of being a traitor to Islam, and Rizwan is rushed to the hospital. With Mandira's help, Rizwan survives and meets President- elect Barack Obama who tells him, . The film concludes with Rizwan and Mandira going back home. Shahrukh Khan as Rizwan Khan. Kajol as Mandira, Rizwan's wife. Sonya Jehan as Haseena Khan, Zakir's wife. Jimmy Shergill as Zakir Khan, Rizwan's brother. Zarina Wahab as Razia Khan, Rizwan's mother. Vinay Pathak as Jitesh. Parvin Dabas as Bobby Ahuja, a news channel reporter. Arjun Mathur as Raj Burman. Sugandha Garg as Komal. Sumeet Raghavan as Attacker. Arif Zakaria as Faisal Rahman. Sheetal Menon as Radha. Tanay Chheda as young Rizwan Khan. Arjan Aujla as Sameer (Sam), Mandira's son. Yuvaan Makaar as Young Sameer (Young Sam)Kenton Duty as Reese Garrick, Sameer's friend. Katie A. Keane as Sarah Garrick, Reese's mother. Dominic Renda as Mark Garrick, Reese's father. Syed Tausif Kamran as BBC Reporter. Christopher B. Duncan as President of the United States. Md. Mosaddaque Sabri as US President. Michael Arnold as Reese Garrick (as a child)Harmony Blossom as Karma Girl. Jennifer Echols as Mama Jenny. Adrian Kali Turner as Funny Hair Joel. Benny Nieves as Detective Garcia. Jeremy Suarez as Bully of Sam. Production. It's about a relationship between two people, between an individual and the State, and between an individual and the country. In short, there are the three important components: a love story, Islam, and a mild form of autism. We are all coming together to fight for a common cause . Everyone knows that terrorism has no religion and it will never have a religion. As a filmmaker, I believe that I have a social responsibility and I promise to fulfill that. As said to Madhureeta Mukherjee. In an earlier July 2. Khan also noted that the film focuses on themes concerning . It's a disabled man's fight against the disability that exists in the world. We are only trying to say that there are only good people and bad people. There are no good Hindus, bad Hindus, good Christians, bad Christians. Either you are a good person or a bad person. Religion is not the criterion, humanity is. It's telling a story with a strong message, professing humanity and goodness and putting it out on a big cinematic scale. So all put together it is definitely a different experience for mainstream India (..) All I can say is that MNIK is going to open windows and doors to many people who have stories to tell and are shy to put their story on the celluloid. Kurbaan was more darker, grittier and a grey look at a situation, whereas MNIK is a hopeful, far more positive and a lot more positivity in its finishing reels with a triumph to the human spirit. Kurbaan was very cinematic and interesting in its approach but it didn't offer a solution. Rather it just tells the problem. MNIK offers you that solution. Filming began in Los Angeles during December 2. During June 2. 00. San Francisco. Tanay Chheda portrayed Shahrukh Khan's character as a child living in the Borivali section of Mumbai. American actor Christopher B. Duncan was chosen to portray President Barack Obama. According to actor Arif Zakaria, . But we were to shoot in a mosque in Los Angeles and hard as Karan tried to convince the authorities that his film would not propagate anti- social values, he was denied permission . San Francisco's Film Commission Director Stephanie Coyote was responsible for giving permission to the crew to shoot in the film studio. His character in the film who has Asperger's Syndrome, has a way of jutting his neck out at a particular angle and wears an expression which has his eyebrows raised in every scene. As he would shoot for hours, he'd get severe migraines. Director Karan Johar admitted that . Halfway through the shooting of the film, Shah Rukh developed severe headaches as result of all the pressure it would put on his head so he had to see a neurosurgeon for that. The content of My Name Is Khan is diametrically opposite to whatever I've done in the past. They build an inexplicable energy on screen. I was zapped by how much he knew about the subject.? We've known each other so long .. Besides, I can never make a film without Shah Rukh. To begin with, it had a mainstream release in India coupled with a regular Diaspora release in UK, US, Gulf, Australia and various other countries. All the tickets were sold out in five seconds. And, this has mainly been made possible because of our synergy with Fox Star Studios.. Bollywood company is tying up with a mainstream Hollywood studio. So, there are many firsts to this venture. It is going to be released in a way no Hindi film has been released internationally before. Dish TV entered into a strategic marketing alliance with Fox Star and spend approximately Rs. India to co- promote the brand and the movie. They were invited by Fox Searchlight Pictures to do so as part of their promotion for My Name Is Khan. Jha (film critic and author of The Essential Guide to Bollywood) gave My Name Is Khan a rave review arguing that Rizwan Khan . But this film about damaged lives needs no repairing. My Name Is Khan is a flawless work, as perfect in content, tone and treatment as any film can get . Long after the wary- of- physical- touch Rizwan has finally shaken hands with President Obama, long after the heat and dust of racial and communal hatred has settled down the core of humanism that the film secretes stays with you. Yes, we finally know what they mean by a feelgood film. SRK, well, how does one describe his performance? To state that this is his best work so far would be cutting short the praise he truly deserves . No other actress could've matched SRK in histrionics the way Kajol has. In fact, SRK and Kajol complement each other wonderfully well and this film only proves it yet again. The Hidden (And Not So Hidden) Messages in Stanley Kubrick's . II) - The Vigilant Citizen. The second part of this series of articles on Eyes Wide Shut takes a closer look at the elite secret society discovered by the film’s main character, Bill Harford, and how it resembles real life organizations. Was Stanley Kubrick trying to warn the world about the occult elite and its depraved ways? Note: It is recommended that you read the first part of this series first. Also, gigantic spoilers. In the first part of this series on Eyes Wide Shut, we looked at main characters of the film and the symbolic world Kubrick created around them. We saw that Bill and Alice Harford are a married upper- class couple that was not immune to the temptations of adultery. We also saw that the couple was in contact with the upper- echelon of New- York and its decadent ways – a world that fascinates Bill, but that has a dark side, one that is kept from the public. In this article, I will jump straight to the most unsettling part of the movie: The secret society ritual. When Bill learns that his wife has considered cheating on him, he embarks in a strange series of encounters (which I will analyze in the third and final part of this series), eventually ending up in a luxurious house in Long Island where he encounters a large gathering of masked individuals partaking in an occult ritual. Since he was never initiated into that secret society, Bill was not even supposed to know that it existed, let alone bear witness to one of its “meetings”. So how did he find out about this thing? Well, a little birdie told him. Nick Nightingale. At one point during his strange night out, Bill meets his old friend Nick Nightingale at a jazz cafe. The professional piano player reveals to Bill that he is sometimes hired by mysterious people to play, blindfolded, during mysterious parties that are full of beautiful women. This juicy piece of information intrigues Bill to the highest degree because, since his talk with his wife, he is appears to be looking for some kind of . Nick ultimately makes a big mistake and agrees to provide Bill with all of the information needed to access the venue. A nightingale is type of bird that is known for singing at night, just like Nick Nightingale “sings” secret information at the start of Bill’s fateful night. The password to enter the ritual is “Fidelio”, which means “faithfulness”, a main theme of the movie. More importantly, as Nightingale points out, “Fidelio” is the name of an opera written by Beethoven about a wife who sacrifices herself to free her husband from death as a political prisoner. This password actually foreshadows what will happen during that ritual. After getting the details from Nightingale, Bill rents a costume at a store named “Rainbow” (more about the store in the next article) . The building used to film the outside scene is Mentmore Towers in UK. The location selected to film the elite scenes is quite interesting. Mentmore Towers was built in the 1. The Rothschilds. By selecting this location, was Kubrick trying to show his audience the “real world” equivalents to the ultra- elite shown in the movie? Incidentally, the name of Bill’s connection to the elite, Victor Ziegler, is of German- Jewish origin, like Rothschild. It has been documented that the Rothschilds do actually partake in masked events very similar to those shown in Eyes Wide Shut. Here are rare images taken from a 1. Marie- H. Invitations were printed in reversed writing. One wonders if this party “degenerated” into something resembling what is shown in Eyes Wide Shut. In the movie, when Bill enters the mansion, he mixes with a crowd of masked people silently watching the ritual. One of these people appear to instantly recognize Bill (or the fact that he doesn’t belong here). A couple wearing Venetian masks (more specifically “female jester” and “bauta” masks) slowly turn towards Bill and nod in a very creepy matter. Is this Ziegler and his wife? Kubrick likes to keep things mysterious. Venetian masks were originally worn during the Italian Renaissance in Venice and were a way for the powerful elite of the time to indulge in debauchery without reprisal.“Though the precise origin of the mask- wearing tradition can. Its position on the Mediterranean sea opened it up to a myriad of trading opportunities across Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor, and its powerful navy allowed it to exert the military force necessary to defend its vast wealth. In a city- state so prosperous, it. The Venetians, the theory goes, adopted the practice of wearing masks and other disguises during the Carnival season as a way of suspending the rigid social order. Under the cloak of anonymity, the citizens of Venice could loosen their inhibitions without fear of reprisal. Masks gained so much popularity that the. However, as word of the famed Venetian Carnival spread, more and more outsiders flocked to the city every year to take part in the festivities. The Carnival celebrations became increasingly chaotic and debaucherous as the years progressed until their decline in the 1. Century.”– Geoffrey Stanton, Guide to Venetian Carnival Masks. Since then, Venetian masks have been used in elite circles and have somewhat become a symbol of its dark occult philosophy. Even The British Royal Family appears to enjoy the same type of masks and events. Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla at Clarence House with bauta masks. That particular Royal event featured masked women who were as NOT dressed as those in the Eyes Wide Shut ritual. Models at the party attended by the Royal Family. It seems evident that Kubrick carefully selected the Rothschild- owned location and hand- picked the masks worn by participants of the ritual, echoing real- life families and events. Setting of the Ritual. When Bill enters Somerton, everything about the movie changes. There are no more colorful Christmas lights and no tacky decorations. Instead of incessant chatter between needy people, it is all about stillness and silence. Staring right at the camera (and at the movie viewers), the creepy masks are silent yet disturbing reminders showing the “true faces” of the elite. Note that the multi- faced mask on the left which is similar to the one worn at the Royal party above. The music in the movie also changes drastically. The song heard in the background is called “Backwards Priests” and features a Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy played backwards. The reversal or inversion of sacred objects is typical of black magic and satanic rituals. By having this Christian liturgy played backwards right before widespread fornication is Kubrick’s way of stating that the elite is nothing less than satanic. Here we see Nick Nightindale playing the song “Backwards Priest”, meaning that people in the ritual actually hear that music and that the whole thing is choreographed to it. Nightindale is blindfolded because the “profane” cannot witness the occult rituals of the elite. The interior scenes of the party were shot at Elveden Hall, a private house in the UK designed to look like an Indian palace. When the “festivities” begin, a Tamil song called “Migration” plays in the background, adding to the South- Asian atmosphere (the original version of the song contained actual scriptural recitation of the Bhagavad Gita, but the chant was removed in the final version of the movie). This peculiar Indian atmosphere, combined with the lascivious scenes witnessed by Bill as he walks around the house, ultimately points towards the most important, yet most hidden part of the movie: Tantric Yoga and its Western occultism derivative, Sex Magick. This last concept was “imported” by British occultist Aleister Crowley and is now at the center of the teachings of various secret societies: “Aleister Crowley’s connections with Indian Yoga and Tantra were both considerable and complex. Crowley had direct exposure to some forms of these practices and was familiar with the contemporary literature of the subjects, wrote extensively about them, and – what is perhaps the most important – he practiced them. In his assessment of the value of Tantra, he was ahead of his time, which habitually considered Tantra a degenerate form of Hinduism. Instead, he claimed that, “paradoxical as it may sound the Tantrics are in reality the most advanced of the Hindus”. Crowley’s influence in bringing Eastern, primarily Indian, esoteric traditions to the West extends also to his incorporation of the elements of Yoga and Tantra into the structure and program of two influential magical orders, the A.: A.: and the OTO.”– Martin P. Starr, Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism. The above quote stipulates that Tantric concepts were incorporated in two important secret societies: the A.: A.: and the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis). The OTO is still extremely influential in elite circles and reaches the highest levels of politics, business and even the entertainment industry. At the core of these orders is the Thelema, a philosophy created by Aleister Crowley that he summed up with the saying “Do What Thou Wilt”. According to a number of sources, their activities included mock religious ceremonies, devil worship and occult rituals. Although details are vague regarding that elite club, they were known for performing elementary Satanic rites as a prelude to their nights of fornication. These acts were however not just “for fun” or to “shock people” as some sources might claim, the members were initiates of occult mysteries and their rituals were based in ancient rites involving invocations and other forms of black magick. In short, although Kubrick never actually names the secret society infiltrated by Bill, there are enough clues to understand what kind of club he is referring to. Most importantly, he is telling his viewers: These societies still exist . He is at the center of a “magic circle” formed by young women who are very likely to be Beta Kitten slaves. Later, when Bill is unmasked, another magic circle is formed.
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