My Name is Khan update

Full article: Source (June 01, 2009 03:03:00 PM)
Bathija fleshed out the love story between Rizvan Khan (Khan) and Mandira (Kajol) by reading “An Asperger’s Marriage” by Chris and Gisela Slater-Walker and talking to the couple in depth. She also visited the National Autistic Society in London, and read numerous books on the subject.

“A lot of research has gone into it,” said Bathija. “Chris and Gisela’s book was one of the many I read, but it was especially informative for the Asperger’s male in a marriage with someone who is not on the autistic spectrum. The issues they addressed helped me imagine situations for the script.”

Shah Rukh Khan, too, did independent research on the topic, she said. “I gave him all the books, articles and documentaries I had used in writing the script. He has absorbed and involved a lot of that and brought it out wonderfully in his performance.” Bathija, whose screenwriting credits include “Fanaa,” “Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna” and “Kidnap,” writes her screenplays in English, and another writer is brought in to adapt the dialogue into Hindi.