Postcolonial movies review

Movie Review : The Reluctant Fundamentalist

During the discussion of post colonial study we have watched the film 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' which was directed by Meera Nair. The film narrates the life of one Pakistani who is capable to work among American people but just being a Pakistani he suffered a lot and consider as a citizen of second world. His self respect was  vanished with his clothes. He become victim of situation and it's made great impact on him. An educated person is considered as terrorist who is actually a teacher but  he needs more security for him because other want to kill him and this security made his frame as terrorist. This movie is directed by Mira Niar and it is based on the novel with the same title written by Mohsin Hamid. The main theme of the movie is how Muslim's were disrespected after the attack of 9/11. Here the protagonist Changez Khan goes to America to earn money. He makes friend fall in love with American lady.But after the attack of 9/11,  his colleagues started misbehaving with him. We can see a postcolonial aspect here when the Muslims are disrespected by the Americans. So the movie is a very well depicted and arranged with different incidents. Overall it is a good depiction of Muslims conflict towards the Americans. So of course it is a worth to watch this movie.

Movie Review :  Midnight’s Children

 Midnight's children is the movie made from the novel with the same title which is written by Salman Rushdie. The movie deals with the political history like partition of India and Pakistan. Here with this writer adds his imagination by putting magic realism in this. In this movie,  we can see that two boys,  Saleem and Shiva born on the  independence night. All the children who got birth in midnight  of that night gets the power of telepathy. But here a Christian nurse named Marry changed  both children. So here we can see a postcolonial aspect by showing Christianity is superior over the Hindu and Muslim religion.

       Magic realism is really presented well here in this movie. Here,  Parvati saves first Saleem's life and then her child's life by magic. In this movie all characters are portrayed well specially Saleem,  Shiva and Parvati.  

    The film also talk about class of the people. Marry is just a nurse but she is motherly figure for protagonist. She  become the reason for suffering of Saleem and at the last she is introduced as mother just like English people believe that they have helped India in development. At the last three of them live like a family where Christian mother, Muslim father and Hindu son. It's seems like

                                " Dreams are lost in the melting pot"

    The movie is all about the conflict which Saleem  is doing again and again. The movie is good according to the literature aspects but its not for a fun or for all generations. Some movies have a different class to watch so it is one of them.