Midnight’s children movie review

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Being a part of East or Third world country I would like to do postcolonial study(sorry for being bit personal) because once we were colonized by British people so that you( Instead of you I should say 'I' ) love to do post colonial studies because it is deeply rooted in our subconscious.

                                                    
Here I would review the move ‘The midnight’s children’ with the help of postcolonial perspective.

Movie is based on Salman Rushdie’s Midnight children.

First Ahmed (Mumtaz’s second husband) gives a new name Amina to Mumtaz after their Marriage. It sounds very colonial that after marriage you have control over your wife. It is consciously or unconsciously gets reflected by female director. Mumtaz accepts the new name happily because you are so much colonized and it is so deep inside you that you don’t even realize that you are being colonized and you don’t deny accepting a new identity given by a colonizer.

Nurse changes child because her lover Joseph said so. Joseph said that by changing the fortune of these two children it will be a revolutionary step. Again religion plays vital role to prove my arguments. A Christian ( No offense) is changing fortune and considers it as a revolutionary step.

When Saleem came to India we saw slum area and poor people, snake charmer, Parvati doing black magic shows backwardness of India. At the same time they show nuclear experiment of 1974 which shows progress of India.

These are some of my post colonial interpretations on this movie.

The Reluctant fundamentalist movie review

                                                               

This blog is part of my classroom activity, this is my personal blog and point I have given here is my personal POV , I’m neither against nor in favor of anything my request to reader is not to it take personally.




Directed by :- Mira Nair

Produced by:- Lydia Dean Pilcher

Written by:-    Mohsin Hamid , Ami Boghani

Screenplay by: - William Wheeler , Rutvik Oza

Based on:- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Starring:-

Riz Ahmed

Kate Hudson

Liev Schreiber

Meesha Shafi

Kiefer Sutherland (wikipedia)




The reluctant fundamentalist is a story of a young and talented man named Changez Khan who have many desire but soon his desire to achieve his dreams collapse like a castle of cards after 9/11 event. He suffers because of his identity as a khan as a Muslim and specially as a Pakistani and soon he left the city of his desire.


How his life changes after 9/11 attack:-

First when Changez returns from a business trip and there were other colleague also with him, police asks his name and after seeing his name as ‘khan’ in his passport they take him for an inquiry an asks him to take off all his cloths, we can’t describe the feeling and thought was going on in Changez’s mind at that time. There were no words from him he does this silently but we can feel it threw his facial expression that some is going on in his mind. 'My Name is Khan' is best example here; how he suffers because of his identity as a khan.

After this in his office his colleague who ones were good friends of him are not talking to him after 9/11 attack except one who is a black person. Shows friendship between a black and a Muslim or say Pakistani.


His girlfriend Erica uses their intimate details that once ‘I was with a Pakistani’ and he ends the relation with her after that.

After returning to Pakistan he starts serving as a professor at Lahore University. Anse Raviner an American professor at Lahore University is kidnapped and Boby who is an American journalist and undercover CIA informant in Pakistan Arranges to interview Changez khan who is colleague of Rainer, whom he suspects is involved in the kidnapping.

Soon Rainer was killed and Boby receives image of Rainer dead at a same time Changez was texting someone and Boby becomes suspicious and in hurry he jumps to conclusion that Changez killed Rainer and Boby shoots one of Changez’s student soon Boby comes to know that Changez was actually texting his sister.

Thing is that person was bracketed as Pakistani not as human. being as an Orientalist Edward Said in his book says that Orientalist argues against how east portrays west. Same generalization is made here also that all Muslims are terrorist. people become suspicious when you introduce yourself as ‘Khan’. I will conclude with a point that the act of suppressing someone constantly without any reason will lead person to do some thing bad.