Shahrukh Khan says Asperger’s Syndrome made his character very interesting in ‘My Name is Khan’

‘My Name is Khan’, that’s now beckoning us to book our tickets, is a SRK-Kajol-Karan film that is set on the backdrop of 9/11 terrorism and how the innocent Muslims were suspected by US officials.

However, the character of Shahrukh, Rizwan Khan suffers from a mental illness called ‘Asperger’s Syndrome’, a form of autism and this is the kind of role ‘King Khan’ has never essayed before. An ecstatic Shahrukh quips,

”The most interesting part of the fact as an actor is that I’m playing a character who’s got Asperger’s. It’s also not in any which way to show it in a light which is not nice…but for an actor that’s a great thing to do, you know, to play a (person with a) disorder like this which very few people know about. And whenever you’re dealing with a disorder or a near…atypical situation, the first thought is that the sort of parameters you have to set that in no which way you are derogatory or deriding the disorder.

You have to make the protagonist very proud of what it is. The second part is you have to come as close to reality in depicting that characterisation and so one had to study a lot and one does get worried…

Of course, having said that, I have taken a few cinematic liberties with it, because I’ve used three or four traits which may not exist simultaneously in one person and tried to create onecharacter who has Asperger’s, called Rizwan Khan.”

So, that’s what Rizwan Khan is all about…….. A man who shows resilience amidst the ill-fated luck that conspires against him……..