Last week, I rewatched "My name is Khan" which was released in 2010. It was my favorite movie of 2010 and almost all the movies of SRK are my favorite. The movie was released in 2010 and watching the movie again was essential to test if it is a cult classic movie.
In my opinion, we may fail to appreciate a good movie when it is released first due to having fact of vision and different trend of movies.
Some movies become big hits by following a trend. However, we realize that those movies are not great at all after the trend fades. Some movies are ahead of its time which is seemed to irrelevant today. Nevertheless, we understand the concept after passing a certain time. To test the quality of a movie, I always prefer to watch it again after some time has passed.
First of all, The story of the movie was relevant to the world at that time. western people speculate Muslim communities and Muslim people experienced discrimination and hardship in the early 2000s. Though there were reasons behind the phenomenon, acts of few people did not represent the whole community. The movie perfectly showed the situation of the community in early 2000s.
The songs of the movie were entirely blended with ongoing circumstances and "Noor-E-Khuda" was the soul of the movie. The love story between leading characters developed in a meaningful manner. The film carried some core massages including judging people in terms of good and bad, avoid considering every Muslim as a terrorist, helping everyone without seeing the religion or race of the person. Finally, The performances of main characters were unbeatable. SRK completely did justice with his role "Rizwan Khan". His way of delivering dialogues, showing emotions and innocent moments would touch everyone's heart. Similarly, the female character played by Kajol was excellent as well.
Right now, India is ruled by the extreme right wing government which tries to separate the society on the basis of religion due to getting votes and remaining in the power. But that "divide and rule" does not work in the long run. The movie will be a cult classic movie in future where people seem everything without having extremist outlook.
