“My name is Khan and I am Not a terrorist: SRK- Kajol….to Rizvan-Mandira

My Name Is Khan, it bring in the images of a man walking through the huge landscape of the Mexican Desert with the voice over of wanting to meet the President of USA to tell him “My name is Khan and I am Not a terrorist” While on the other hand Shiv Sena protesting and vandalizing the public properties of Maharashtra and posters of the movie. It is hard to remember if such a hype and hoopla and massacre were involved with a film in any recent past.

Now the film has moved on from just being focus of misgivings of being released to being one of the most coveted movies of our times for all the right reasons. So have the on-screen star couple of the movie since the first time they were paired together.

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Still now people haven’t been able to forget the love that the characters of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol exuded on-screen in DDLJ to dejected Anjali of KKHH who finally meets her love Rahul. SRK and Kajol have been one of the most sought after romantic pair of the Indian film industry and have epitomized the sweet – tender Bollywood style love.

But with the film MNIK the director has taken this couple’s love story to more humane level. It has managed to transcend the pop-corn romance. The maturity of this love story of the characters Rizvan and Mandira does not limit itself to the scripts and the soulful songs. Everything of the film connects with the characters from costumes to their styles to the sets of the movie.

As Shiraz Siddique, costume stylist ofShah Rukh Khan puts it the primary color of Shah Rukh’s character is blue, but with time as the character matures and goes for a life defining journey the shades of blue changes, from muted icey blues to convey the “sense of having no direction, but as you see him coming into his own the blues become deeper and stronger.” Same with the case of Mandira, from a graunchy look to a serene deeper look to portray the losses in her life and the anger because of it.

The movie has gone past the traditional USA landscapes often captured in Hindi movies, of Brooklyn Bridge and of the opulent San Francisco Bay area. Along with it the love story of Rizvan – Mandira has not even bothered to touch any of the keystones of the conventional love stories that these stars and the director has epitomized once.

They have truly broken the conventions of loving someone, they have shown even matured unconventional lovers tug at your heart strings. May be Rizvan –Mandira will become the next Raj and Simran, along with it a better understanding of the Asperger’s syndrome and an acceptance for them in our society. Letting them to have and live a normal life.

As aptly put by Kajol in an interview, “They come in wanting to watch Kajol, Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar and walk out thinking about Mandira and Rizvan.