My name is Khan
"There are only two kinds of people, the good ones, who do good things, and the bad ones, who do bad things"
An Indian Muslim man with Asperger's syndrome takes a challenge to speak to the President seriously, and embarks on a cross-country journey.
In this movie we can clearly see how the US people discriminate and despise the muslim people after the 11-S and how much they suffer because of this.
Is a movie you should see because it shows the way that a minority is treated especifically after one moment on History.
Rizwan Khan (Tanay Chheda) is a Muslim child who grew up with his brother Zakir and his mother (Zarina Wahab) in a middle class family in the Borivali section of Mumbai. Rizwan is different from the other children and no one, including his mother, can understand why. However, he has certain gifts, particularly a special ability to repair any machine that is broken. His difference leads to special tutoring from a reclusive scholar and extra attention from his mother. This attention, however, leads to a heightened level of jealousy from his brother Zakir, who eventually leaves his family for a life in the United States.
Despite this resentment, as an adult Zakir (Jimmy Shergill) sponsors Rizwan (Shahrukh Khan) to come and live with him in San Francisco. It is at this time that Zakir's psychologist wife, Haseena diagnoses Rizwan as having Asperger's syndrome, a disorder which makes it difficult for people to interact socially. Rizwan also begins to work for Zakir as an herbal salesman and in the process he meets a Hindu woman, Mandira and her young son, Sameer or Sam (Yuvaan Makaar), from a previous marriage. Despite Zakir's hostility to the match, they marry and settle down in the fictional town of Banville, where both Mandira and Samir take Rizwan's last name as their own. They also live next door to the Garrick family. Sam is close with their young son, Reese (Kenton Duty and Michael Arnold) while Mark (Dominic Renda) is a journalist and Sarah (Katie A. Keane) is a friend of Mandira.
Despite this resentment, as an adult Zakir (Jimmy Shergill) sponsors Rizwan (Shahrukh Khan) to come and live with him in San Francisco. It is at this time that Zakir's psychologist wife, Haseena diagnoses Rizwan as having Asperger's syndrome, a disorder which makes it difficult for people to interact socially. Rizwan also begins to work for Zakir as an herbal salesman and in the process he meets a Hindu woman, Mandira and her young son, Sameer or Sam (Yuvaan Makaar), from a previous marriage. Despite Zakir's hostility to the match, they marry and settle down in the fictional town of Banville, where both Mandira and Samir take Rizwan's last name as their own. They also live next door to the Garrick family. Sam is close with their young son, Reese (Kenton Duty and Michael Arnold) while Mark (Dominic Renda) is a journalist and Sarah (Katie A. Keane) is a friend of Mandira.
The Khans' perfect existence gets disrupted, however, after the September 11 attacks on the twin towers in New York City. Mark goes to cover the war in Afghanistan and dies there. At the same time, the Khan family begins to experience post 9-11 prejudice in their community and Reese begins to turn against Sam as well. One afternoon, an argument between them turns into a racially motivated schoolyard fight between Sam and a number of older students. Reese tries to stop the fight but is held back and Sam is injured so badly that he dies. A shattered Mandira blames Rizvan for his death stating that Sam "died only because his name was Khan." She then tells Rizwan that she no longer wants him in her life. When he asks her what he has to do to be a part of her life, she tells him that he has to tell the people of the United States, and the President that his name is Khan and that he is not a terrorist.
I watched that movie and I loved it. I think that it´s a very special way to show to the audience the problems in the USA: the US people discriminate the Muslims and how that discrimination was harming the Muslim community (people lost their jobs, they couldn´t live in peace, they were even despised; that was why most of them decided to cut their hair, left their clothes and join the American society, forgetting their culture and traditions).
ReplyDeleteThe way in which the movie makes us think about the life; a reflection that makes us realize about how we live now and what we can rescue of that life. Think about the main character: Still with his disease he could overcome the adversities of the life and face everything what was in his way and to be able to reach his final goal and in the end He won more than what he had lost.
He shows us a lesson of overcoming that we must learn.
I have not seen this movie, but I would like to watch it. I think that the movie has a very clever idea about the discrimation to the Muslims after 9/11. The most important fact in this movie is that all the Muslims were considered as terrorist just because they were Muslims. The movie teach us the consequences of discrimination and how this affect all of us specially the Muslims that has nothing to do with the 9/11 incident because maybe some of them were killed just because of there religion.
ReplyDeleteFinally I think that we all must learn that we must not discrimate an entire community just because someona made something. We are all people and we must learn to live in peace.
I have heard about this movie before. Someone told me to watch it, and after these comments, I will do it.
ReplyDeleteDiscrimination against Muslims has always existed and this grew after 9/11. I remember that yesterday, we were talking about the culture of certain groups that have not been respected. In this case, it's belived all muslims are terrorist. But we can not generalize because we are underestimating their culture.
We know they have different beliefs, and even though they are living in another culture and maybe they have to adapt to new laws, the US goverment have to respect them don't using violence and promote non discrimination. It's known that to reach an agreement there must be a conversation, so this could be the best way to establish a good relationship between both communities. It's the best way to live together in peace and respecting the others.
Also, people have to understand that they cannot discriminate a whole culture just for one occurrence.