My Name Is Khan and The Gladiator
Today I have some music for you from a movie that is one of the greatest Bollywood movies of this recent decade. This is a movie that has so much pain, heart and emotion, sadness, and passion and love. My Name Is Khan is one of the most influential Hindi movies of our recent generation for a number of reasons. This is a movie that openly talks about ideas of terrorism and the stereotypes associated with Indian and Middle Eastern people because of terrorism. It talks about the pain and torment that many Muslims have gone through because of religious intolerance and increased profiling in regards to terrorism. This movie also brings to light social responses due to disability. This movie exposes some of the social injustices that people of all groups face and points out that stereotyping and cruelty are things that exist in the social structure of today. But this movie also highlights the power of love and care. It emphasizes the great strength that we can all cling to from family and f...