Review of the movie Midnights Children and Reluctant Fundamentalist
“The rich need to be a poor and a poor need to be rich” is very famous line that occurred in one of the best Indian English writer Salman Rushdie’s famous as well as criticized Novel ‘Mid Night’s Children’, that was published in 1981, this won him Man Booker Prize.
Later in 2013 the film version of the movie was directed Oscar nominated director Deepa Mehta, the script of the movie is obviously written by Salman Rushdie himself. The drama or Movie version of the Mid Night’s Children tells the story of two individuals who born at the stroke of the midnight, when India achieved its Independence from British. One is born in rich family, second in poor family. What the line just above some line states, accordingly the rich one will live in utter poverty and the poor will grow up in rich family.
The plot of the drama is centers around these two characters are Saleem and Shiva. The story is their childhood to man, but in the course of that time it covers nearly more than 30 years. which includes some historical time in Indian as well as Bangladesh’s history, Indian history like the independence movement, two civil war with Pakistan, arising of the Bangladesh as new nation, Emergency during Indira Gandhi’s was Prime minister of India. In a sense we can see as record of history and Indian culture too.
If you are interested in Indian history, and wants to know some facts (I know it is fiction and it never can be 100perccent fact, it is there but the only condition is you have to believe in what is going on) than you should have to watch this movie, but one thing you have to keep with you is patience, I would say to Deepa Mehta and also to Salmsan Rusdie that the opening part of the movie, what is the importance of that? Doctors’ visit to that girl, it bores your reader and viewers too. Over all the movie is interesting the use of magic realism, you will come to know the intelligence of director. All the characters played very well role and I’m sure you will like the character of Shiva.
But to be frank I don’t find postcolonial aspect in the movie Mid Night’s Children. To me it’s is very well record of historical event that took place just after Indian Independence, and its director has done a wonderful job, most probably she is successful in creating the ambiance of that time, and it’s very difficult task also.
Who is the director of the movie? Indian? Pakistani? European ? Then how she can have ill intention in mind? Where did the money came from I mean producer?
And in movie there is nothing on which we have to look down.
2. “The Fundamental Reluctant” is movie released in 2014, directed by Mira Nair, it is not less than any Hollywood movie, its script is written by Mohsin Hamid, Mohsin is well known English writer in Pakistan who’s achieved readers of the world. This movie is based on his novel with the same title to movie in 2007. It’s all about a young man who is attracted by the American business culture, and then disillusioned of Americas’ reality, of racism, after the attack of 9/11, oppression of Asian, hate for religion, the real humanity and many other things movie take together in course of 128 minutes. It is the story of young Pakistani boy Changez Khan, the hero of the novel, in frame narration story move forward, as Changez who at present live in Pakistan, tells his life story to an American journalist who is also secret agent of CIA. The story starts with the abduction of American professor working in the University of the Lahore, and the journalist suspect Changez behind all this.
Why always Pakistani or south Asians are suspected when anything bad happen with European? Colonial mindset? May be yes.
Changez tells his life in America in last one decade, how he lived, and then leaved U.S. as like others he was also enchanted with the American dream: good job, earning in dollars, good house, a beautiful girlfriend and so on. His analytical mind helped him to get good and respective job in MNC. Within no time his success was touching to the height. And soon he became the CEO and partner in company in which he was working. At first he enjoy this things and then also able to get good, loving girlfriend too.
“But nothing last forever….”
The day 9/11 in his life come as the doomsday. After that day the problems started in his life until that everything was right. After that accident the real face of America and American Racism came to fore. Many times he was attacked by fanatic Americans, many times insulted, and he feel no good in living this place, he came back to Pakistan leaving all things.
Why always they think that all the bad things and terrorist attack only can do by south Asian countries? why always every Muslims is suspected as terrorist?
You can’t live, you can’t leave, you can’t sleep either, the only thing you can is tolerate intolerance. (in 2007 when there is economic depression in U.S. market at that time thousands of Asians were thrown out, and fired from job, even forced to leave.)
Postcolonial concept:- 1.Changez face racism in U.S. 2. He left the job and U.S is anticolonial act, 3. Rather he started serving his nation is voice of rebel, at the and it shows Pakistani good at heart than American,
It is better to serve in ones’ own country than to other. The term brain drain is very famous for America his policies are of that kind that the intellectual of the world should be in our power, with them, they should serve only America. In that mater Indians are the most victims/easily caught in their trap, money minded people accept it easily, as most of the medical practitioner are serving in India, the recent example is Amul Pichai became CEO of google. Not all but there are some people like Changez and like A.P.J.Abdul Kalam who belie in serving nation, this is the post-colonial voice that movie represent.
I wish that the every NRI who are serving in big MNC in foreign should see this movie, and realize that they are colonizing their own people, they are harming, oppressing, suppressing their own brothers. Realize the fervor of nationalism.
The last part of the movie is worth watching for whole the world that gives the message that now stop stereotyping the people from a respective religion/region, all Muslims are not bad as well as all Indians are not good, and even its not necessary that all American has good heart, live the life you get, without harming anybody, live in harmony and brotherhood.
“stop ruling over humanity, let humanity rule the world”
The plot of the drama is centers around these two characters are Saleem and Shiva. The story is their childhood to man, but in the course of that time it covers nearly more than 30 years. which includes some historical time in Indian as well as Bangladesh’s history, Indian history like the independence movement, two civil war with Pakistan, arising of the Bangladesh as new nation, Emergency during Indira Gandhi’s was Prime minister of India. In a sense we can see as record of history and Indian culture too.
If you are interested in Indian history, and wants to know some facts (I know it is fiction and it never can be 100perccent fact, it is there but the only condition is you have to believe in what is going on) than you should have to watch this movie, but one thing you have to keep with you is patience, I would say to Deepa Mehta and also to Salmsan Rusdie that the opening part of the movie, what is the importance of that? Doctors’ visit to that girl, it bores your reader and viewers too. Over all the movie is interesting the use of magic realism, you will come to know the intelligence of director. All the characters played very well role and I’m sure you will like the character of Shiva. But to be frank I don’t find postcolonial aspect in the movie Mid Night’s Children. To me it’s is very well record of historical event that took place just after Indian Independence, and its director has done a wonderful job, most probably she is successful in creating the ambiance of that time, and it’s very difficult task also.
Who is the director of the movie? Indian? Pakistani? European ? Then how she can have ill intention in mind? Where did the money came from I mean producer?
And in movie there is nothing on which we have to look down.
2. “The Fundamental Reluctant” is movie released in 2014, directed by Mira Nair, it is not less than any Hollywood movie, its script is written by Mohsin Hamid, Mohsin is well known English writer in Pakistan who’s achieved readers of the world. This movie is based on his novel with the same title to movie in 2007. It’s all about a young man who is attracted by the American business culture, and then disillusioned of Americas’ reality, of racism, after the attack of 9/11, oppression of Asian, hate for religion, the real humanity and many other things movie take together in course of 128 minutes. It is the story of young Pakistani boy Changez Khan, the hero of the novel, in frame narration story move forward, as Changez who at present live in Pakistan, tells his life story to an American journalist who is also secret agent of CIA. The story starts with the abduction of American professor working in the University of the Lahore, and the journalist suspect Changez behind all this.Why always Pakistani or south Asians are suspected when anything bad happen with European? Colonial mindset? May be yes.
Changez tells his life in America in last one decade, how he lived, and then leaved U.S. as like others he was also enchanted with the American dream: good job, earning in dollars, good house, a beautiful girlfriend and so on. His analytical mind helped him to get good and respective job in MNC. Within no time his success was touching to the height. And soon he became the CEO and partner in company in which he was working. At first he enjoy this things and then also able to get good, loving girlfriend too.
“But nothing last forever….”
The day 9/11 in his life come as the doomsday. After that day the problems started in his life until that everything was right. After that accident the real face of America and American Racism came to fore. Many times he was attacked by fanatic Americans, many times insulted, and he feel no good in living this place, he came back to Pakistan leaving all things.Why always they think that all the bad things and terrorist attack only can do by south Asian countries? why always every Muslims is suspected as terrorist?
You can’t live, you can’t leave, you can’t sleep either, the only thing you can is tolerate intolerance. (in 2007 when there is economic depression in U.S. market at that time thousands of Asians were thrown out, and fired from job, even forced to leave.)
Postcolonial concept:- 1.Changez face racism in U.S. 2. He left the job and U.S is anticolonial act, 3. Rather he started serving his nation is voice of rebel, at the and it shows Pakistani good at heart than American,
It is better to serve in ones’ own country than to other. The term brain drain is very famous for America his policies are of that kind that the intellectual of the world should be in our power, with them, they should serve only America. In that mater Indians are the most victims/easily caught in their trap, money minded people accept it easily, as most of the medical practitioner are serving in India, the recent example is Amul Pichai became CEO of google. Not all but there are some people like Changez and like A.P.J.Abdul Kalam who belie in serving nation, this is the post-colonial voice that movie represent.
I wish that the every NRI who are serving in big MNC in foreign should see this movie, and realize that they are colonizing their own people, they are harming, oppressing, suppressing their own brothers. Realize the fervor of nationalism.
The last part of the movie is worth watching for whole the world that gives the message that now stop stereotyping the people from a respective religion/region, all Muslims are not bad as well as all Indians are not good, and even its not necessary that all American has good heart, live the life you get, without harming anybody, live in harmony and brotherhood.
“stop ruling over humanity, let humanity rule the world”
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