It is a good insightful thought provoking analysis of the film. After watching Aamir, i kept on ruminating over the film. Like you, I kept on trying to think what disturbed me about the film. As much I agree with you that it is the silence of the Muslim community at large which disturbs the viewer, I feel that by taking such a view we are indeed operating within a stereotype, not one instated by the film, but one with which we come to watch the film. If we read the silence as one that is only indicative of the approval or connivance, such an interpretation bereft the film of its nuanced representation of the Muslim community, and their complex relationship not just with the self appointed leaders preaching them jihad, but with the Indian nation state at large. In fact I feel that the director credibly goes on to debunk this simplistic popular stereotyping of the Muslim community where they are either the extremists or the supporters of those who are.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Aamir..
A response to, "Why Aamir left me disturbed" by Saisuresh Sivaswamy at http://saisureshsivaswamy.rediffblogs.com/
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
A poem without a title
I toss and turn
But, all I smell is a burn
Is it the wind?
April has been the cruelest month
It hasn’t been too kind
But I still wonder
Will it ever leave me?
It drowns me
Sucks me up like a quagmire
My Mother says it is too much heat
Friends say it is too much thinking
He says it is all in your head
I say it is the chill
Too much crowding
Yet the silence
Too many people
Yet the loneliness
Too much wind
Yet the parchness
But I still wonder
Will it ever be?
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