Do good things and good things happen. I'm just trying to be a better person. My name is Khan.

"My name is Khan and I'm not a terrorist"
These are the key words to the film, similar to "My name is Harvey Milk, and I'm here to recruit you", the statement is used umpteen hundred times, constantly trying to sound powerful, but coming off as odd and quickly written.

But, that's really all I can say against this monumental film.

We start in San Francisco international airport, a man enters, big backpack, eyes diverted from everything, rustling rocks in his hand, muttering words in a foreign language. Quick as a button he is escorted by security to a cell, searched all over, bag and clothes. He's cleared, eventually, and tells them he's going to meet the President. He first utters the line, to an astounding thump from the film's soundtrack.
After that we see periodically Rizwan Khan's travels around the US trying to meet Bush and tell him he is not a terrorist just because he is of the Islamic faith. He writes letters to a woman, detailing his life from a young child in India, suffering from an as yet undiagnosed Asperger's Syndrome, his mother cares for him, his brother hates having no attention. Rizwan is a genius child, he feels no emotions, he can't look anyone in the eyes, he hates yellow, loud noises, new places, but he's a genius.

Whence he gets to San Francisco he works fro his brother, selling beauty products to stylists, wherein he meets the love of his life, Mandira. The following 20 minutes are a light, breezy attempt at romcom, he has to find something in the city she's never seen and she'll marry him, silly but fun.

Everything is going so well until about an hour and a bit in, when the September 11th attacks happen, and bang, everything goes to shit.

Post-Intermission we get the biggest gut punch for a long time, where The Lovely Bones failed, My Name Is Khan succeeds in a violent child attack.
For the rest of the film Rizwan is traversing the country, helping people, breaking stereotypes in the minds of Americans, and as some news people follow his story, he becomes famous for his good deeds and efforts.

The film is remarkable, it's long, real long, but it never lets up pace, there is a clear divide in the two parts, but it works well, and separates the lighter moments and the real wonderful melodrama of the piece. Not one shot in the film ISN'T meticulously conceived, a thing of beauty, each shot is astounding in itself, and I for one hope a good blu ray release happens for this film.

The music is loud and sublime, the acting solid all over, the script fantastic, if a bit cheesy, but it's forgivable, and the only weak casting choice is having an appalling Obama impersonator who can't impersonate, and yet they got Bush so right.

This is a wonderful film, words will never express the brilliance, just, go and see it, find it and see it, I don't care who you are, just do it, it's funny, dark, powerful, moving, beautiful, sublime, an all round amazing film.
10/10