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Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children one of the most much-admired novel by Salman Rushdie. He is Diasporic writer. Who is an Indian-born British essayist and fiction writer. He says about this topic ‘Midnight’s Children’- Indian pessimism. He gives ideas of historical fact and magic realism in novel.
Midnight’s Children movie is luminously directed by Deepa Mehta, this movie is also based on this novel. The movie is a controversial one, that has tragedy, romance and comedy also.
The movie has a dramatic and mysterious touch that gets you an entire picture of Indian’s journey through all its trials. The movie is highlighting the two lives of two individuals born at the stroke of midnight when India achieved its Independence. This movie takes through all the ages beginning from the grandparents to the children. Born , poor become rich, rich become poor. Changing of the children plays vital role in changing plot of the movie. Saleem becomes Shiva and Shiva becomes Saleem, and then movie turns around their lives. Son of rich becomes poor and poor boy suddenly becomes rich. Which is fine example of class conflict in India at that time.
Here in the case of Saleem and Shiva I observed there is a crisis of superiority , why it happened ? Because one is Muslim by birth and the other one is Hindu. As we know that it is the time of Independence, and there where so many geographical problems taking place. Yes, it was the time of partition .
In movie the Characters of Parvati, Shiva and Saleem presents magic realism. Magic Realism also plays vital role in making the movie believable. If this technique won’t be used then perhaps we won’t believe in the story. Through magic realism all children brought together in the movie, and it gives novelty to the movie and makes it more interesting.
Movie is also political allegory, presenting dark side of partition, then the war with Pakistan and Emergency. So it looks like Rushdie as an outsider criticizing India. The scene of India in the movie is of slum, poverty which looks defaming India and looks towards India like western people does.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Pakistan born writer Mohsin Hamid.
The movie is also based on this novel.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist movie is brightly directed by Meera Nair Dir. The whole movie is talk about relations between East and west. The story of the movie is narrated in flashback technique by Changez Khan. The story of the movie is of young Pakistani man chasing behind corporate success. In this movie we can see that what reality has to do between film and Reluctant Fundamentalist in this film main theme.
In this movie we can see the American political affairs and news about 9/11 in America land the terrorist attacks to world trade centre. That scene is all that fundamentalism and film focus on Changez is also Pakistani everything. This attack 9/11 makes him question all his value and he becomes a logical example of anti-capitalist morals and principal.
After the attack of terrorist in America we can see how problem coming to Changez Khan’s life in New York. Here we can see the term of Orientalism by Edward Said. Orienatalism is a style of thought based an ontological and epistemological, distinction made between Orient- the Eastern part of Asia and it is opposite to Occident. And movie also talks about the how Western countries see the East countries, in movie character of Changez Khan is about what is real fact about the East countries. Also we can say that all Muslims are not terrorist, but whenever we capture any terrorist it’s Muslim. So our mind’s is concept that all Muslims are terrorist. After reading the term Orientalism the concept of mind changes that all Muslims are not terrorist but they all are first human being.
He goes back to his roots in Lahore , but he is now a different person, taking to a different world. Now he becomes third person mixture of the Pakistani poet’s son and the New York businessman. Now as a professor , he spends some time in the tea shop with his many faithful students. He works as professor but American agents doubt them as terrorist. At the end of the movie, Americans realizes that Changez is innocent.
So film challenges American theory of doubting Muslim people. It gives voice to this people.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist movie is brightly directed by Meera Nair Dir. The whole movie is talk about relations between East and west. The story of the movie is narrated in flashback technique by Changez Khan. The story of the movie is of young Pakistani man chasing behind corporate success. In this movie we can see that what reality has to do between film and Reluctant Fundamentalist in this film main theme.
In this movie we can see the American political affairs and news about 9/11 in America land the terrorist attacks to world trade centre. That scene is all that fundamentalism and film focus on Changez is also Pakistani everything. This attack 9/11 makes him question all his value and he becomes a logical example of anti-capitalist morals and principal.
After the attack of terrorist in America we can see how problem coming to Changez Khan’s life in New York. Here we can see the term of Orientalism by Edward Said. Orienatalism is a style of thought based an ontological and epistemological, distinction made between Orient- the Eastern part of Asia and it is opposite to Occident. And movie also talks about the how Western countries see the East countries, in movie character of Changez Khan is about what is real fact about the East countries. Also we can say that all Muslims are not terrorist, but whenever we capture any terrorist it’s Muslim. So our mind’s is concept that all Muslims are terrorist. After reading the term Orientalism the concept of mind changes that all Muslims are not terrorist but they all are first human being.
He goes back to his roots in Lahore , but he is now a different person, taking to a different world. Now he becomes third person mixture of the Pakistani poet’s son and the New York businessman. Now as a professor , he spends some time in the tea shop with his many faithful students. He works as professor but American agents doubt them as terrorist. At the end of the movie, Americans realizes that Changez is innocent.
So film challenges American theory of doubting Muslim people. It gives voice to this people.
