Hello reader,
This blog is a part of my classroom activity of Postcolonial
Studies: Film Screening: The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Here is the full movie
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is political
thriller drama film based on the novel, The
Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Novel was published in 2007
and movie made on in 2012. Movie was directed by Mira Nair, starring by Riz
Ahmed and Kate Hudson in lead. The movie “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is focuses upon the theme of
racism and an American Dream of a young man Changez Khan and his journey of
becoming a reluctant fundamentalist. The whole movie is narrated in flashback
technique. The location of this movie is the streets of Lahore, Pakistan and
then it swift towards America.
The plot
begins with the kid
napping of Anse Rainier, an American professor at
Lahore University. After which an American Journalist Bobby Lincoln, a
CIA agent comes to interview the protagonist Chang Khan and he tacks interview
of Changez Khan at small café in Lahore. Story start with flash back technique
and we see the frame narrative technique was used in the movie. Changez Khan says
his whole story infruent of Bobby. He tells about his life that how he lives in
America in last one decade, and then leaved U.S. As like other he was also
enchanted with the American dream. For that he struggles a lot
and gets success. He becomes CEO of the company and he enjoy to being CEO.
We see this
film with the postcolonial perspective.
The concept
of racism we find in the entire movie. When the American colleague of Changez
Khan has been kidnapped, at that time the main suspect on Changez because he
was a Muslim tutor.
When Changez
went for interview at that time Jim mack fun on Changez, It shows the mindset
of the white people towards black people.
“Looks are deceiving”
This
dialogues is reflects postcolonial aspect of racism. Most of the time people
are judged according to their look, but looks deceives people. First when
Changez has looks like American people at that time white people have no
problem but when he has beard and appear like Muslim, it was become
problematic. After 9/11 the life of Changez was changed a lot, everyone suspect
on Changez because of he was belong to Muslim nation Pakistan.
When Changez
go to airport at that time he also becomes victim of racism. Because he was
looks like a Muslim, he becomes reason of suspect.
Very first
time Changez fill outsider in America when American police treated him as
terrorist because he has beard like Muslim. In that scene we can see that there
is a reflection of Changez on glass and WTC tower is blasting, which suggests
the blast of an American dream of Changez.
The felling of “Otherness” Changez feels in America. He becomes
stranger for America because of his identity as Muslim.
When Erica Confess her loves infruent of Change as Pakistani
at that time his felling was deeply hurt. At that time he feels inferior
infruent of her beloved because of his identity as Pakistani. His American
dream was collapses and ultimately
he stops dreaming and accepted the present.
In this movie
we find term like, racism, terrorism and post colonialism. In the movie we find
deep impact of racism and colonialism in mind of white people. The same thing
we find in the movie New-York also.
Thank You.
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