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My Name Is Khan

2010 film directed by Karan Johar
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My Name Is Khan
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Summary

My Name Is Khan is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,601 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: Karan Johar[3]
  • Screenwriter: Shibani Bathija[4]
  • Composer: Shankar Mahadevan[5]
  • Genre: drama film[6], romance film[7], social film[8], epic film[9], action film[10], thriller film[11], suspense film[12], crime thriller film[13], mystery film[14], crime film[15]
  • Cast member: Shah Rukh Khan[16], Kajol[17], Jennifer Echols[18], Jimmy Shergill[19], Tanay Chheda[20], Arnold Schwarzenegger[21]
  • Producer: Karan Johar[22], Gauri Khan[23], Shah Rukh Khan[24]
  • Performer: Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy[25]
  • Production company: Searchlight Pictures[26], Star China Media[27], 20th Century Studios[28], Image Nation[29], RatPac-Dune Entertainment[30], Fox 2000 Pictures[31]
  • Director of photography: Ravi K. Chandran[32]
  • Original language of film or TV show: Hindi[33], English[34], Urdu[35]
  • Commons category: My Name Is Khan[36]
  • Soundtrack release: My Name Is Khan[37]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[38]
  • Review score: 6.7/10[39], 83%[40], 50/100[41]
  • Color: color[42]
  • Country of origin: India[43], United States[44], United Arab Emirates[45], Hong Kong[46]
  • Publication date: April 15, 2010[47], April 23, 2010[48], May 26, 2010[49], May 28, 2010[50], June 10, 2010[51], August 19, 2010[52], September 2, 2010[53], February 12, 2010[54], February 10, 2010[55]
  • Distributed by: 20th Century Fox[56], Netflix[57], Fandango at Home[58], Hulu[59], 20th Television[60]
  • Narrative location: Los Angeles[61], San Francisco[62], California[63], India[64], Pennsylvania[65], New York[66], United States[67], Maharashtra[68], Georgia[69]
  • Filming location: San Francisco[70], New York City[71], Philadelphia[72], Mumbai[73], Sacramento[74], Los Angeles[75]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[76]

  • Secondary type(s): Soundtrack[77]

  • First release date: 2010-01-04[78]

  • Genre(s): filmi, pop[79]

  • Community tags: 2010s, bollywood, filmi, hindi film music, pop, soundtrack[80]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 409dbceb-747a-48ee-b532-10865be86ab4[81]

Why It Matters

My Name Is Khan has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[82] It is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[83]

Related Entities

Arnold Schwarzenegger California film Gauri Khan Georgia Hong Kong India Kajol Karan Johar Los Angeles Mumbai Netflix New York New York City Pennsylvania Shah Rukh Khan United Arab Emirates United States Washington

References

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [82] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [83] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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