Midnight’s children 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.

                                                   

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.