Last week started with huge expectations for the SRK fans and the movie goers. MNIK generated more publicity, thanks to shiv sena, who managed to help SRK indirectly by providing the much needed publicity.
I have not watched an SRK movie on the very first day. On watching the trailers of the movie I thought the movie would have some substance. The ratings provided by Times and other websites for the movie, fired us with enthusiasm. So we booked the tickets for the first day.
When you have huge expectations even an average performance could look dud. MNIK is not an exception. Right from the beginning I could not connect to the film. SRK has tried to act really well, as a person suffering from Asperger's syndrome. But there seems to be no connection to the character, the plot and the disease.
Karan Johar seems to be a confused man. He has taken a very heavy topic i.e muslim’s being treated as a terrorist in US. However, there seems to be no strong scenes to portray that they are treated badly. Most of the incidents portrayed in the film were silly. Seems he expected Kajol to create the magic which DDLJ had cast on the audience. But there is no such magic.
In fact there are a lot of irrelevant scenes in the movie, such as SRK shouting that he is not a terrorist during the visit of US president, helping kid in Georgia, Sam (Kajol’s kid) dying in the movie etc. No one was able to connect to the scenes or appreciate its relevance in the film.
When I heard that there was controversy over releasing the film in Mumbai, I thought SRK would not need or use such publicity. But after watching the movie, I guess shiv sena has a great role to play in providing publicity for that movie, without which it could have run out of theatres by now.
5 comments:
First things first...this movie did not need any publicity from shiv sena...all shiv sena did was to prove that time has come for people to take strong stand agaisnt whats right and not just bow under pressure...
Now coming to the movie....it was no romantic chic flick or comedy but a serious movie which was thought provoking. The movie might not be well connected but all the incidents showed in the movie had some message to convey...like how his mom explains him the difference between hindu n muslim...gud and bad...even a person suffering from Asperger's syndrome could understand this and follow it in his life...but people like us ( i mean the general population) are busy fighting among ourselves on the grounds of religion.....how even kids are influenced by the predujices of the mean elder world....etc...
there were so many such ideas conveyed in that muv that I can write an entire post on it...so wont scribble more in ur comments section....
n fyi..
http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_my-name-is-khan-sets-new-box-office-record-in-us-and-canada_1347933
Well, since ananths review is bad, i will surely like the movie :) let me watch n then comment again :)
May be the movie is not all that great, but i dont think shiv sena helped them.. It was kajol and sharukh pair, that made ppl run for the movie.. probably, this time it didnt work that big like DDLJ..
Well, I didn't see the film - but reading your review and looking at what's happening to the film in Mumbai - that it is running empty - I guess Mumbaikars think your way :)
On Shiv Sena, I tend to agree with Pallavi's comment. Though I don't agree with Shiv Sena's stand, Bal Thackarey is too much of a hot potato to give publicity to a movie.. His aim was I think to get publicity for himself as Raj Thackarey was getting so much of it... :)
hey guys, no need to take my view on sena in this post seriously, it has to be taken in the lighter vein.
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