My Name Is Khan Analysis

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My Name is Khan Film Analysis My Name is Khan is the story of an Indian Muslim man, Rizwan Khan, who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, which is a highly-functioning form of autism that complicates socialization. After the death of their mother, Rizwan moves to San Francisco with his older brother, where he meets a Hindu single mother, Mandira, and her young son, Sam. Eventually, the two get married and settle down in the small town of Banville, a place where they experience post 9/11 prejudices. One day, this prejudice emerges into a racially motivated fight between Sam and a group of older boys, and as a result, Sam dies. Shattered from her son’s lost, Mandira blames the death on Rizwan, due to Sam’s last name being Khan, and she threatens to leave him if he does nothing. In desperate hopes to fulfill his wife’s request, Rizwan accepts the challenge and embarks on a cross-country journey to tell the people of the United States and the President that “my name is Khan and I’m not a terrorist.” Unquestionably, this Indian love story augments the material covered in class lectures through its multitude of perspectives, opinions, and facts that revolve around the global issue of discrimination and intolerance towards a race of people, Muslims, completely unassociated with the evils of terrorism. It sheds light on an individual’s relationship with the country. More specifically, it reveals a disabled man’s fight against the disability that cripples and exist in the world we live in today- Islam and the way society look upon it through biased and uneducated lenses. My Name is Khan represents how the Western World’s perception on Islam has changed over the years due to 9/11. Essentially, the movie augments that people should not be racially profiled on the account of religion and a selected few, but instead, on the basis that we are all equal and should be willing to
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