Watched two movies recently the acclaimed Pakistani movie Khuda Ke Liye and the animation movie Horton Hears A Who.
I was quite eager to watch khuda Ke Liye since it was a Pakistani movie which was released in India.
The movie is all about Islam and terrorism. One thing I came to know through the portrayal of the heroine’s father is that hypocrisy is a sub continental thing.
This bloke is shown to live in London, drinks beer and has a white woman as his wife, but he wants his daughter to marry a Pakistani and not her white boy friend.
He manages to cheat her into marrying a wannabe Jehadi.
It captures the story of the wannabe Jehadi; how he is misguided by a false maulana.
The other protagonist is his brother who is shown as a victim of post 9/11 hate crime.
Naseeruddin Shah has got a small cameo to play in it, but he packs a punch in the role he plays.
Horton Hears A Who is a wonderful movie its got a good social message to it. Somehow I feel that animated movies give a much better social and moral message.
I know lot of folks who would shun way from wathcing an animated movie because they feel cartoons are only for children and grown ups should watch Tashan.
They wont even try watching one animated movie, passing judgements without even understanding stuff is very common.
They really dont know what they are missing.
This movie tells us to respect a person no matter how small he might be.
Thru the character of the Kangaroo it shows the generic makeup of our society, where people laugh at you just becasue they dont understand things even if you are right.
It tells us that if we are right then take courage and stick to it like Horton and the mayor of Whoville.
