My name is Khan became Bollywood's most successful box office opener in the UK when it was released on February 12 2010.

It is currently number six in the UK box office charts, and  has already grossed more than £936,000 in the UK and a staggering $2.3m in the United States.

Director Karan Johar, returns with his faourite couple, Shahrukh Khan, also known as 'King Khan,' and Kajol. But this time in a not so familiar territory of candyfloss romance, rather in a serious backdrop of America post 9/11.

The movie explores a road journey through a troubled post 9/11 America towards humanism and the essential goodness of the human spirit.

In the film, Khan plays a Muslim called Rizwan Khan, who has Asperger's syndrome. He stars opposite Kajol, who plays a single Hindu mother who falls in love with him.

It begins with Rizwan as a young boy with his mother (played by Zarina Wahab) in Mumbai, who teaches him his first lessons of humanity that the world is divided into good people and bad people, as the 1983 Mumbai riots rage outside their house. It is this lesson of humanity that carries Rizwan through Mumbai to his adventurous life in the US.

Rizwan's life takes an ugly turn after his best friend and Mandira's son, Sam, is killed in a vicious racial attack for taking on Rizwan's surname, Khan. Mandira hits back, saying the worst thing she could have done was marry a Khan.

Unable to communicate and articulate his feelings, Rizwan sets off backpacking his way across America to meet the President to tell him "My name is Khan, and I am not a terrorist."

Rizwan's label as a terror suspect is swapped for nationwide hero when he exposes a terror mastermind. He is a shown as a man with a mission, as he travels to the town of Wilhelmina that is drowning in a hurricane to supervise a heroic rescue mission. He is joined suddenly by a huge crowd of other Muslim Americans, in classic Bollywood style.

The movie did, however, have a few great one liners. When he is refused entry into a presidential fundraiser for the poor in Africa that is only for Christians, he leaves behind $500 saying, "This is for those who are not Christians in Africa."

After being reunited with his wife, he eventually meets the President to tell him "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist." The movie ends with cheers from the US first African American president in a crowded rally.

The movie was released in a storm of controversy in India after a row between its star, Shahrukh Khan and Shiv Sena, a hardline Hindu party in India, over cricket. The movie's release in India was in jeopardy following the controversy, which resulted in posters being burnt in Mumbai.

Although, all the controversy worked for the movie's publicity, it seems to have failed to fulfill its mammoth expectations. Despite it being a Shahrukh Khan movie, the other 'Khan' in Bollywood, Amir Khan, steals the show with last year's super hit '3 Idiots.'