My Name Is Khan
2010, PG-13, 160 min.
Directed by Karan Johar, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Jimmy Shergill, Tanay Chheda.

Not reviewed at press time. A child with Asperger’s syndrome grows up in Mumbai and lives as an adult in San Francisco, where he falls in love, marries, and begins a successful business until the events of 9/11 separate the couple and he must embark on a journey to win her back. For a change, this Bollywood film has an American distributor stateside: Fox Searchlight, the company that took a chance on Slumdog Millionaire. Nevertheless, Searchlight chose not to screen this film for press.

This article appears in February 12 • 2010.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.