Karan Johar for the first time speaks out on the MNIK controversy, the challenge of realistic cinema and going global
Filmmaker Karan Johar, fresh from the success of My Name Is Khan visited the Screen office for a candid chat and bowled everyone with his charm and inimitable style.
Dressed casually in a black and grey T-shirt [...]
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Bollywood films quietly attracting crowds
“The idea is that you have to some way make a film that appeals to my 90-year-old grandmother and to the 9-year-old kid,” Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan told National Public Radio recently. Khan is the biggest movie star in India, which, since India has a population of over a billion people, makes him the [...]
Bahraini offers 40 tickets to MPs to watch ‘My Name is Khan’ and learn from its message
Khalid Al Khayyat, a Bahraini who works with a bank, has offered the 40 MPs tickets to watch the movie in Manama and use its message to spread greater tolerance in the lower chamber and society and foster national unity.
Manama: A Bahraini man is trying to use the Bollywoood hit ‘My name is Khan’ starring [...]
SRK’s position on IPL and defence of Islam in MNIK has made him an icon in Pakistan
Inside Nishat theatre, one of Karachi’s very oldest, on the first-day-first-show of My Name is Khan, the atmosphere is electric. Ten minutes into the film, as soon as Shahrukh Khan speaks those now-famous lines, “My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist”, the clapping and cheering begins. And it doesn’t stop. Every gesture [...]
