Movie screening- 1] Midnight's children and 2] The Reluctant Fundamentalist

On 9 September 2018, we had a movie screening of "Midnight's children" and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" at the Department of English, MKBU. So, this blog is a review of two movies from the post-colonial perspective, as a part of academic activity.

1) Midnight's children

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.

2) The reluctant fundamentalist

The ‘ Reluctant Fundamentalist’ movie released in 2014,directed by Mira nair.it is not less than any Hollywood movie,its script is written by Salman Rushdie and mohsin Hamid.

          The Reluctant Fundamentalist" follows the transformations of the wide-eyed Pakistani Changez Khan  who arrives in the US with great professional ambitions.The story is recounted in flashback by Changez.

       This movie all about political controversy and 9/11 attack ,idea of East and West , American dream of changez.changez kham leading main role in this movie.This movie reflects relationship between Pakistan and America.As we realize that America is a capable country contrasting Pakistan .                                                                 As we probably an aware in Postcolonial theory .one country tries to control another country .so as we realize that America control Pakistan. furthermore ,in this film principal character 'Changez’ endure a great deal since he is from Pakistan.in America he is capable and intelligent individual as opposed to other individual in his office,yet he confronts great troubles in America.For instance 'Changez' allow due to his standpoint and his body looks up at air terminal and it is offending for any individual to be exposed and giving the confirmation that he is not terrorist.so,we can see Power of East and West in this movie.In this movie the character of chngez khan is an intriguing one.