| Letters to the Editor | |
| 18 Mar 2010, NewAgeIslam.Com |
| Three idiots and My name is Khan | ||
I am into social communication and I would like to keep your readers within the loop of my communication circle. They have all the right to disagree with my views but they can still help me in my communication effort (by merely reading the full of it). People on our side of the globe underestimate the power of communication. May be, because apparently all cannot participate equally. But even if one just reads a book or a magazine or E-zine, and patronizes a communicator in some ways, one can be assumed to be participating in the communication process. -- Manzoorul Haque
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| Three idiots and My name is Khan | |
To,
The Editor,
NewAgeIslam.com
Sub: Three idiots and My name is Khan.
I am into social communication and I would like to keep your readers within the loop of my communication circle. They have all the right to disagree with my views but they can still help me in my communication effort (by merely reading the full of it). People on our side of the globe underestimate the power of communication. May be, because apparently all cannot participate equally. But even if one just reads a book or a magazine or E-zine, and patronizes a communicator in some ways, one can be assumed to be participating in the communication process.
All of us are specialists in our own fields and so everyone cannot specialize in communication but if he /she wants, he /she can. Only snag is that this field is risky somewhat, like the field of `film-acting'. Either you hit the jackpot or you land in penury. So for most people it is not worth taking a chance to stake for communication, or the social communication at least. Besides it does take years of training to be communicators, more so on social issues. So it is always better to take part on the sidelines and focus on some other professional ability as well. As I was telling, each one of us does take part in advancing communication process by reading or listening to it, which means supporting it in some ways. This way we do a more vital work than is noticed. We advance the right kind of communication that is the one that is right for us, for our families, and for our community. Since we Muslims lag so much behind, in the matter of understanding the communication process, much less appreciating and guiding it to the desired course, we can safely presume that the communications that may be taking place around us, are not of right kind for us. So as we all proceed in life, we should associate yourselves with communication at least by reading the right kind of material which actually amounts to patronizing that kind of material. I am not saying not to read any other kind. Participating in the communication process also helps in one’s career, more so in administrative and management careers, because when you manage a couple of human beings your ability to communicate decides how well motivated the group would be under you. Communication calls for good knowledge, tremendous patience and understanding, a high analytical ability etc. and so these are objectives worth pursuing. In the final paragraph I would like to discuss with your readers, the two films I have seen recently. One is `Three Idiots'. The film has conveyed a central idea of how we should groom our young persons. The storyline was powerful and film was flawless. This film will help India in the long run as the youth and the families have been forcefully conveyed a message on how to harness the human resources. The power of a well-made film is enormous today in the life of a community. But I don't know how much of our Indian Muslim youth and families will benefit from this message because our priorities are different and we in real sense lack a national perspective, unfortunate as it may be.
The second film is `My Name is Khan' which is of greater interest to us because of the issues involved but unfortunately the storyline is weak and despite enormously talented actors and a very burning topic, the film failed to create the desired impact. A colossal loss of effort and a more colossal loss for the cause in question!! Philosophical dishonesty of the pilot team involved in the making of the film, hidden somewhere down the line was the cause of failure. They made the power-actor (hero) of the film into an autistic person, and thus placed extreme restrictions on themselves to maneuver the storyline. But why did
they make their hero into that kind of an autist, so as to destroy the film? Because somewhere deep down, a Muslim penchant for truth, for absolutism (even in love of goodness) is seen by them in that light . They consider believing Muslims as morons, and I see `ourselves' as the ones who have given them a chance to think so, because we have not been able to develop a secular rationale for being Muslims. It has been a long-felt presumption, on both sides of the divide, that a very intelligent person cannot afford to be (or remain) a Muslim or vice-verse. I have come to this conclusion that this matter be precipitated and if a person is too intelligent for being a Muslim, the Muslim community should have no grudge on his exit. No grudge means, no grudge, which means no violence too; simply ignore the element. My concluding remark on the film `MNIK' therefore is that the power-actor that Shahrukh is, should have been shown as a smart Muslim guy who had perfect understanding of Islam and of the world, who by virtue of his traits as a liberal but believing Muslim, confronted an unduly hostile American milieu on account of 9/11, additionally upset with the rising profile of Asians vis-à-vis the Whites, in which he was rightly assisted by the Hindu elements (on account of their own intrinsic goodness) resulting in the victory of good over evil and protecting the right of the hero to continue to believe in Islam and yet be a liberal healthy man. Okay for now. My best wishes, Assalam-o-alaikum Manzoorul Haque |
6:56 AM
Sultan Shahin
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