This essay presents its breakdown in the understanding of interracial relationships as I analyze the meeting points of race, class and gender following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York City (9/11) as seen in Karan Johar’s 2010 film, My Name Is Khan (MNIK). My Name is Khan is unique in every sense of word. A Muslim man with Asperger’s Disorder must deliver a message to the president of the United States to get back the Hindu woman he loves. The movie addresses important subjects such as the relationship between a Hindu-Muslim married couple and racial discrimination post 9/11.
As a Muslim autism patient, he has faced racial discrimination ever since he was a child as it was shown as a scene of riot between