Film review : Postcolonial Film : Midnight's children, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Black Prince and Abdul and Victoria.
Film review : Postcolonial Film : Midnight's children, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Black Prince and Abdul and Victoria.
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Author Biography
Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India, on June 19, 1947, just two months before the protagonist of Midnight's Children, whose birth coincides with the moment India receives its independence. He attended school in Bombay and in Rugby, England.
Film reviews :
Midnight's children :
Midnight's Children is a 2012 Canadian - British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel of the same name. A Film by Deepa Mehta 1917 - 1977 India Colonial.
Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize, Great Britain's equivalent of the U.S. Pulitzer Prize in 1993, the novel was awarded the "Booker of Bookers," an honor accorded to the best novel to be published in the competition's first twenty-five years. The book follows the life of Saleem Sinai, who was born at the very moment in 1947 when India gained its independence from British colonial rule.
A very simple opening ...
" I tumbled forth into the world"
A story began with the given sentence. A story began with Kashmir 1917.
The complex story begins with a simple way. In the story centers on two boys born in Bombay at midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, which is the moment India abrogated British rule. One boy is born into wealth; the other’s lineage is complicated, but he would ostensibly be raised by poor wandering musicians. Except the babies are swapped at birth in the hospital because of some once love towards casteism. Saleem is the main character in the story, he raised in a well family, he narrates the story.
In the first post-Partition episode of Midnight's Children, we're briefly shown a poster of the 1957 film Mother India, the most popular and revered of all Bollywood movies.
“Midnight’s Children” was a spectacularly celebrated novel, so it’s easy to see why cutting it to pieces would be difficult. If someone else does it might be the easy way out, but sometimes the simplest path is the right one.
In the movie we can see the narration , creation and telling of nation's and individual identity and also many symbols.
Symbols
In the movie nose is symbolised like the reputation of someone. In the movie nose is used many times to talk with friends by Sameer. At that we can consider the nose as a symbol of reputation.
Tajmahal is a symbol of love. In the movie we can see Taj Mahal as periphery and poor people are at the centre of the movie. So in the movie there is a broken Taj of Nazim and mumtaj.
Trains are a symbolic part of India. In the movie the train show referred to india. The India train is a symbol of speed.
Rushdie criticised the Idea of Indira to India. Used formula of lost and found.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist :
"Fundamentalist” refers to religious identity, one unfortunately most often associated with Islamic terrorism these days. The story about an ambitious, Pakistani born Wall Street financial analyst who becomes disenchanted with the United States after 9/11 certainly suggests that most obvious reading.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a 2012 political thriller drama film based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Mohsin Hamid, directed by Mira Nair, starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in lead. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a post-9/11 story about the impact of the Al Qaeda attacks on one Pakistani man and his treatment by Americans in reaction to them.
A Pakistani professor tells a journalist his post 9/11 U.S experience. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a thriller movie. Fizwan Ahmed is the center of the movie. Novels are sustained in the literary and corporate world.
The reluctant fundamentalist is an assimilated Muslim forced into anti American radicalism by America itself.
In the very beginning classical music and kavali is presented in the movie.
Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed) is professor of revolutionary studies at Lahore University, isn’t quite what he appears. The other meaning of “fundamentalist” refers to Changez’s prior life in the states, where as a young man.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist” will make some people mad because of the way it holds the U.S. responsible for the world. Like Changez himself, the film has a complicated relationship with the superpower.
How American are treated to changez in America for the 9/11 issue. How he fought against the issue.
There is one question that ..
Have you heard of the Janissaries?
Meaning of Janissaries :
A member of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan's guard between the 14th and 19th centuries.
A devoted follower or supporter.
A Janissary meaning was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops, bodyguards and the first modern standing army in Europe.
Janissaries began as elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child slavery, by which young Christian boys, notably Armenians, Albanians, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Croats, Greeks and Serbs, were taken from the Balkans, enslaved and converted to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army.
The Black Prince :
The Black Prince is a 2017 international historical drama film directed by Kavi Raz and featuring the acting debut of Satinder Sartaaj. It tells the story of Duleep Singh, the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire and the Punjab area, and his relationship with Queen Victoria.
In the Film Edward never became king - he died before his father, Edward III - he is remembered as a great medieval military hero, with notable victories against the French in the Hundred Years War.
In the movie prince Duleepsingh plays the role of a protagonist. One thing I noticed is that this movie also focuses on how British government ruled India. Movie reflected the good side of British government though providing so many things for the prince but Prince always prefers conman life. Mother of the princes also hate British government and people. She didn't like their manner of hospitality. Normally movie work surrounding nationalism, colonialism, reflects British's manner, clothes, food, Christianity...
Victoria and Abdul :
Victoria & Abdul is a 2017 British biographical comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Lee Hall. The film is based on the book of same name by Shrabani Basu, about the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her Indian Muslim servant Abdul Karim.
In the film, Queen Victoria of any racial discrimination and glorify her as a wise and woke Empress. Their interaction is bereft of life-altering conversations, as one would expect. Frears – who has previously dealt with both, the royalty and Judi Dench, in The Queen and Philomena respectively lends Victoria a sense of dignity in quietude. Dench is unguarded and evocative, especially when she breaks down in Abdul’s company. She makes even the most stoic characters vulnerable. film about the mutual discovery and separation of two individuals, Frears would’ve walked away with a film both heartening and heartbreaking.
Conclusion :
The review of all these films from the perspective of postcoloniality. Midnight's children viewed the creation and narration of the story of the nation in the form of a fragmented allegory. The Reluctant fundamental view in the context of new Empire and effects of 9/11 on the Globalisation word order.
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