My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist

How to travel India, from North to South, and not to speak about cinema, movies, and Bollywood?

Indian movies are great! The atmosphere unbelievable, the experience mesmerizing!

100 Rupees later (around $2), I entered the movie theater, ready to watch the latest Bollywood Blockbuster ‘My name is Khan’: a mega production worthy of the utmost Hollywood movie.

Directed by Karan Johar, the movie released created a colossal success. In less than 4 weeks, it generated around INR 700m ($20m) income, and became a must see Indian movie, following closely the example of “Slumdog” and”3 idiots”. A good sum up of the story can easily be found in IMDB and/or Wikipedia, and therefore I won’t write the synopsis.

The story is moving and teaches you a lesson of humanity; however, this movie had something of “Déjà vu”. Indeed it is no more no less than Forrest Gump, in a “Bollywood masala” (masala is an Indian sauce). Therefore, instead of the American History of the mid XX century, the story dealt with Indian Muslims of the XXI century. The movie kept it magic and the successful recipe was still working, but at the end, the after taste is disappointing. The alchemy was in somewhat; “missing”.