Yesterday I along with my seven friends from hostel went for My Name Is Khan at Kurukshetra’s brand new multiplex.(We now have CCD,Dominos and Baskin Robbins at kurukshetra..yippiiee..) The movie was great .I somehow felt it won’t be that great but surprisingly it was an amazing movie.
For certain obvious reasons. Shahrukh played an autistic man. He was superb. By far the most well played character by him. There were such trivial things focused in the movie that made me ponder more on an autistic’s life. Few of them being
His desire to know minutest details about everything around
His extraordinary intelligence
His relationships
His little brother’s achievements being over looked at
His married life
His straight request for having sex in the middle of the day
His role as a dad to kajol’s son
His simple learning from childhood which acted as a major principle in his life.. there are kinds of people ,good people who do good things and bad people who do bad things.
N how this simple principle led him to be a man that he was.
Apart from the Hindu Muslim issues, the post 9/11 life of a Muslim. One thing that really touched me in the movie was how we as humans or I would modify it and say how I as an individual live life a certain way. Behave with people the way they behave with me. Looking at one very recent event in my life, if anyone bitched about me and tried maligning my reputation, I reacted aggressively. I made sure that I ruined that person’s image to an extent irreparable and leave him/her miserable rather than being calm about the situation, thinking over it whether the person had really said so, and even if he did ,maybe what s/he said was true, maybe I needed to change my own behavior or the way I did things. Vengeance would never win you over anything. It would never make you successful. Even if it did give you the results you had wanted they would never make you happy about it from within. Most importantly it would never make you a better person.
What will leave you fulfilled and complacent is when you take responsibility of your life, responsibility of you failure and success, and love the people around you, understand that each person is different genetically as well as phenotypically. What will win you almost everything is your capacity to love people, accepting them the way they are, not trying to change them or manipulate them. Cos everything you do in your life, every result you have or will ever have in your life will obviously have people involved in it. So accepting them, being proactive is all what will make difference in a positive way in your life.
Like in the movie, Shahrukhs self perception of a ‘good boy’ made him do all the good things and pass on his message( My name is Khan..n I am not a terrorist) and also got hold of the people who killed his son(ooppss sorry 4 the spoiler)i.e., again love, help and forgive people.
So love all hate none (>…<)
God Bless
