Film review: My Name Is Khan remains on the fringes of great cinema

The other day, I managed to catch bits of Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (KANK) on TV – the first time since I saw the film when it released in 2006 – and remembered how disappointed I had been after watching it. It’s not like it was a bad movie or anything but given its interesting plot, it failed to rise above the multi-starrer entertainer it ended up being.

Four years later, KANK director Karan Johar’s latest film, My Name Is Khan (MNIK), suffers from a similar problem. It has everything a director needs to execute a grand vision – an interesting plot (Shibani Kashyap gets story/screenplay credit), good actors, excellent production values (art direction, locations etc), and is technically superior (Ravi K Chandran’s cinematography is a treat). And it’s fairly entertaining too.