One of the many interests I have is watching Bollywood movies. Yesterday, I watched “My Name is Khan” starring Sharukh Khan. Anyone familiar with this genre knows that Sharukh is a mega star. He is also the same man who is currently in the news for being naked body scanned in London then autographing printouts for staff. See my earlier post. Looking at the timing of this event coinciding with the release of the movie, I now suspect that it was a clever publicity stunt. Nevertheless, it still highlights the concerns of allowing the government to use such devices on the people.
From the outset, let me say it's a great flick. It has most of the things you would get in a typical Bollywood movie. It's long by western standards at over 2 and a half hours long, but Bollywoods usually go up to 3 hours. It's an epic. It's an emotional rollercoaster. It's got singing and dancing (in small doses). It's got high drama. It's got Sharukh Khan.
The story is based on a man with Aspergers Syndrome (autistic spectrum disorder) who finds himself in the post 9/11 world being treated like a terrorist because he's brown and he's a muslim. In reality he's just a guy with a disability who only sees the world having two types of people, those who do good and those who do bad. Khan, as the hero, is on the good side, of course.
Whilst I sat and watched, I knew the audience was watching this story on one level, getting angry with the fundamentalist muslims who supposedly did 9/11 and thus polarizing the world against Islam and Rizvan Khan and his family. However, I reacted differently. I was angry from the beginning, because I knew that his disability could well have come from mercury poisoning in vaccines. Then I found myself angry by the paranoia shown by the airport security goons to Khan because of his colour, his autistic mannerisms and because his name is Khan. Why not search guys with names like Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld? They might actually find something.
I surprised myself when I saw scenes of 9/11 unfolding, the shock and horror on the faces of all who turned on the TV. I thought that as I have watched and studied so much about this day I would watch this scene like a dispassionate documentary. I didn't. It was deeply emotional. Anyway, you know how the story goes. The people of America are instantly polarized, white vs arabic/Indian, and former friends become enemies and the world lives in fabricated fear of Al Qaeda.
One question that is often asked, if 9/11 was an inside job, a false flag operation, how could the perpetrators organise to have so many innocent people killed and live with themselves afterwards? I now pose another question. How could anyone deliberately put a knife through the heart of an entire nation and kill its soul? Not only was this polarization an effect of 9/11, it was deliberately intended as a primary objective. The Bush administration needed a “catalysing event like a new Pearl Harbor” to create public support for a “war on terror” to have an excuse to invade and occupy Afghanistan and Iraq as part of the agenda for US global dominance.
I watched Khan make attempts to meet George W to tell him “My name is Khan and I'm not a terrorist”. Then I thought, he'd probably reply “Your name is can? Can of what? Can of beans?! Ha ha ha!” .
Then I see Khan attempting to meet Obama. Then in my script Obama would say “Yeah Mr Khan, I know you're not a terrorist, but I do know who is. Unfortunately, I have to protect them by never acknowledging the mounting evidence, even when presented by stars like Charlie Sheen. Despite the peer reviewed studies finding unexploded thermitic material in the dust samples of 9/11 and the 1000 engineers and architects demanding a new and open inquiry into 9/11, I have to maintain this facade of ignorance and let sleeping dogs lie”.
From the outset, let me say it's a great flick. It has most of the things you would get in a typical Bollywood movie. It's long by western standards at over 2 and a half hours long, but Bollywoods usually go up to 3 hours. It's an epic. It's an emotional rollercoaster. It's got singing and dancing (in small doses). It's got high drama. It's got Sharukh Khan.
The story is based on a man with Aspergers Syndrome (autistic spectrum disorder) who finds himself in the post 9/11 world being treated like a terrorist because he's brown and he's a muslim. In reality he's just a guy with a disability who only sees the world having two types of people, those who do good and those who do bad. Khan, as the hero, is on the good side, of course.
Whilst I sat and watched, I knew the audience was watching this story on one level, getting angry with the fundamentalist muslims who supposedly did 9/11 and thus polarizing the world against Islam and Rizvan Khan and his family. However, I reacted differently. I was angry from the beginning, because I knew that his disability could well have come from mercury poisoning in vaccines. Then I found myself angry by the paranoia shown by the airport security goons to Khan because of his colour, his autistic mannerisms and because his name is Khan. Why not search guys with names like Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld? They might actually find something.
I surprised myself when I saw scenes of 9/11 unfolding, the shock and horror on the faces of all who turned on the TV. I thought that as I have watched and studied so much about this day I would watch this scene like a dispassionate documentary. I didn't. It was deeply emotional. Anyway, you know how the story goes. The people of America are instantly polarized, white vs arabic/Indian, and former friends become enemies and the world lives in fabricated fear of Al Qaeda.
One question that is often asked, if 9/11 was an inside job, a false flag operation, how could the perpetrators organise to have so many innocent people killed and live with themselves afterwards? I now pose another question. How could anyone deliberately put a knife through the heart of an entire nation and kill its soul? Not only was this polarization an effect of 9/11, it was deliberately intended as a primary objective. The Bush administration needed a “catalysing event like a new Pearl Harbor” to create public support for a “war on terror” to have an excuse to invade and occupy Afghanistan and Iraq as part of the agenda for US global dominance.
I watched Khan make attempts to meet George W to tell him “My name is Khan and I'm not a terrorist”. Then I thought, he'd probably reply “Your name is can? Can of what? Can of beans?! Ha ha ha!” .
Then I see Khan attempting to meet Obama. Then in my script Obama would say “Yeah Mr Khan, I know you're not a terrorist, but I do know who is. Unfortunately, I have to protect them by never acknowledging the mounting evidence, even when presented by stars like Charlie Sheen. Despite the peer reviewed studies finding unexploded thermitic material in the dust samples of 9/11 and the 1000 engineers and architects demanding a new and open inquiry into 9/11, I have to maintain this facade of ignorance and let sleeping dogs lie”.
My Name is Khan continues the trend set by Bride & Prejudice and Slumdog Millionaire which repackaged Bollywood fare for the western palate. It's got sub-titles so don't forget your glasses. I recommend you don't go the large size drink from the candy bar. You'll be busting your bladder by the end because you won't want to duck out to the john incase you miss something.
Highly recommended.
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