


Kenton Duty as Reese, Sameer's neighbour.Parvin Dabas as Bunty, a news channel reporter.Zarina Wahab as Razia Khan, Rizwan & Zakir's mother.Sonya Jehan as Haseena Khan, Zakir's wife.Jimmy Shergill as Zakir Khan, Rizwan's brother.Kajol as Mandira Rathore, later Mandira Khan, Rizwan's wife and Sameer's mother.Tanay Chheda as pre-teen Rizwan "Rizzu".Shah Rukh Khan as Rizwan "Rizzu" Khan, Sameer's stepfather.Later recovers, and meets Obama, who tells him: "Your name is Khan and you are not a terrorist." Rizwan is then stabbed by one of Rahman's followers but Meanwhile, Reese finally reveals the identity of the boys who killed Sam and they are arrested shortly. He is later released after a media campaign by some Indian student reporters Raj Burman, Komal and Bobby Ahuja, who claim his innocence by revealing his attempts to inform the FBI about Faisal Rahman. Rizwan is interrogated as a terrorist suspect. While waiting in a crowd to meet President Bush, Rizwan aggressively shouts out loud: "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist!". While at a mosque in Los Angeles, he overhears a violent speech from a doctor named Faisal Rahman who is quoting his religious texts. Bush and later President-elect Barack Obama. Rizwan, taking her words literally, sets out on a road trip to first meet President George W. Shocked beyond belief, Mandira blames Rizwan, stating that Sameer "died only because of his surname." She sarcastically says that to be back together, he has to tell the people and President of the United States that his name is Khan and he is not a terrorist. One afternoon an argument between Rizwan's stepson Sameer and Reese turns into a fight between older students where Sameer is killed. Mark Garrick goes to cover the war in Afghanistan and dies there. The Khans' perfect existence gets disrupted after the September 11 attacks. Rizwan and his wife, Mandira, live next door to the Garrick family, comprising Mark and his wife and son Reese.

Rizwan Khan is an autistic Muslim man who grew up with his brother Zakir and mother Razia in Borivali, Mumbai before moving to the United States.
