Monday, February 15, 2010

"My name is Khan"

I just came back after watching the movie and apart from the superb acting the character of Mandira played by Kajol struck me as different because of the way she approached the disability (so called) in Shahrukh who was acting as a person who had Asperger syndrome. Most of us in any status of life would generally shun the person, treat him or her with pity or cruelty but never accept him but as in the case of the film Mandira accepts Rizwan completely, treats him not like a mental patient but a human being who is just a little different.
What people in this world have such understanding , will we have such maturity to treat people who if lacking in something are human beings too? How many of have the guts to be friendly to people who are different . How many of us have fallen into the compliance's of our own lives and whenever we see such people either take pity or just remove them from mind. The character of Mandira didn't she actually accepted and whats more didn't like to change it. Not many people have that gut many of us don't even have the the guts to think differently . Buts its a long drawn suffering of the society that whenever a person tries to think differently he or she have been termed as lunatic or genius . And both of these people let me tell you have a very lonely liFe . Do we remember Copernicus who first advanced the theory that it was earth which was revolving round the sun and not the vice versa.Copernicus was tried and found guilty and hanged to death , so did many unknown people , so why do we not accept people who are different. Just think back and recall the latest argument we had was because of a difference of opinions , why did it lead us to an argument because the person in front of was not of the same view , but does that mean the person in front of us is wrong . While dealing with various issues of life we forget that a coin has two sides and maybe the place we are standing just affords us one view and we need to have an open mind to accept the view which is not ours . When us common people don't have the mind to accept different points of view how will we accept people who are different .Why can't we realize that no one is same as the other its just that we God created us differently and being different is not a crime , its just nature's way of showing that God is a original creator . In Paa also it was shown how easily the young students had accepted Auro as a class mate they were friends and this is another thing we must remember that its us who pass our prejudices to our children and we must always be careful that the prejudices should be against bad mentality but not against people as a whole. It also shows that our mind should be like the mind of child who accepts all things as it and doesn't go into the analysis of why how and what. A child will go into the lap of a autistic person as easily it will go into the lap of a mother the difference he feels comes later when he learns to read the body language of the parent .
In the end all I can say is that being different is not a crime ,but treating somebody differently just because they are not same as you is a crime . In India perhaps this conditioning is rather too much and here we need to remove such barriers because " A COUNTRY CANNOT BE MADE FROM ONE TYPE OF PEOPLE IT IS MADE FROM ALL TYPES OF PEOPLE , WITHOUT THE SUBJECTS THERE WILL BE NO KING AND WITHOUT DISCIPLES THERE WOULD BE NO GOD".

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