My name is not Khan, I am Mr Kaul

[coffee_rules]

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indus-calling/entry/my-name-is-not-khan My name is not Khan, I am Mr KaulTarun Vijay, 22 December 2009 , 08:55 AM IST I am not Khan. My name bears a different set of four letters: K A U L. Kaul. As those who know Indian names would understand I happened to be born in a family which was called Hindu by others. Hence, we were sure, we would never get a friend like KJ to make a movie on our humiliations, and the contemptuous and forced exile from our homeland. It's not fashionable. It's fashionable to get a Khan as a friend and portray his agony and pains and sufferings when he is asked by a US private to take off his shoes and show his socks. Natural and quite justifiable that Khan must feel insulted and enraged. Enough Masala to make a movie. But unfortunately I am a Kaul. I am not a Khan. Hence when my sisters and mothers were raped and killed, when six-year-old Seema was witness to the brutal slaughtering of her brother, mother and father with a butcher's knife by a Khan, nobody ever came to make a movie on my agony, pain and anguish, and tears. No KJ would make a movie on Kashmiri Hindus. Because we are not Khans. We are Kauls. When we look at our own selves as Kauls, we also see a macabre dance of leaders who people Parliament. Some of them were really concerned about us. They got the bungalows and acres of greenery and had their portraits were worshipped by the gullible devotees of patriotism. They made reservations in schools and colleges for us. In many many other states. But never did they try that we go back to our homes. They have other priorities and 'love your jihadi neighborhood' programmes. They get flabbier and flabbier with the passing of each year, sit on sacks of sermons; issue instructions to live simply and follow moral principles delivered by ancestors and kept in documents treated with time-tested preservatives. They could play with me because my name is Kaul. And not Mr Khan. I saw the trailer to this fabulous movie, which must do good business at the box office. There was not even a hint that terror is bad and it is worse if it is perpetuated in the name of a religion that means Peace. Peace be upon all its followers and all other the creatures too. So you make a movie on the humiliation of taking off shoes to a foreign police force which has decided not to allow another 9/11. The humiliation of taking off the shoes and the urge to show that you are innocent is really too deep. But what about the humiliation of leaving your home and hearth and the world and the relatives and wife and mother and father? And being forced to live in shabby tents, at the mercy of nincompoop leaders encashing your misery and bribe-seeking babus? And seeing your daughters growing up too sudden and finding no place to hide your shame? No KJ would ever come forward to make a movie, a telling, spine-chilling narration on the celluloid, of five-year-old Seema, who saw her parents and brother being slaughtered by a butcher's knife in Doda. Because her dad was not Mr Khan. He was one Mr Kaul. Sorry, Mr Kaul and your entire ilk. I can't help you. It's not fashionable to side with those who are Kauls. And Rainas. And Bhatts. Dismissively called KPs. KPs means Kashmiri Pandits. They are a bunch of communalists. They were the agents of one Mr Jagmohan who planned their exodus so that Khans can be blamed falsely. In fact, a movie can be made on how these KPs conspired their own exile to give a bad name to the loving and affectionate Khan brothers of the valley. To voice the woes of Kauls is sinful. The right course to get counted in the lists of the Prime Minister's banquets and the President's parties is to announce from the roof top: hey, men and ladies, I am Mr Khan. The biggest apartheid the state observes is to exclude those who cry for Kauls, wear the colours of Ayodhya, love the wisdom of the civilisational heritage, dare to assert as Hindus in a land which is known as Hindustan too and struggle to live with dignity as Kauls. They are out and exiled. You can see any list of honours and invites to summits and late-evening gala parties to toast a new brand. All that the Kauls are allowed is a space at Jantar Mantar: shout, weep and go back to your tents after a tiring demonstration. Mr Kaul, you have got a wrong name. A dozen KJs would fly to take you atop the glory - posts and gardens of sympathies if you accept to wear a Khan name and love a Sunita, Pranita, Komal or a Kamini. Well, here you have a sweetheart in Mandira. That goes well with the story. And you pegged the movie plot on autism. I wept. It was too much. I wept as a father of a son who needed a story as an Indian. Who cares for his autistic son, his relationship with the western world, his love affair with a young sweet something as a human, as someone whose heart goes beyond being a Hindu, a Muslim or a proselytizing Vatican-centric aggressive soul. Not the one who would declare in newspaper interviews: "I think I am an ambassador for Islam". Shah Rukh is Shah Rukh, not because he is an ambassador for Islam. If that was true, he could have found a room in Deoband. Fine enough. But he became a heartthrob and a famousl star because he is a great actor. He owes everything he has to Indians and not just to Muslims. We love him not because he is some Mr Khan. We love him because he has portrayed the dreams, aspirations, pains, anguish and ups and downs of our daily life. As an Indian. As one of us. If he wants to use our goodwill and love for strengthening his image as an ambassador for Islam, will we have to think to put up an ambassador for Hindus? That, at least to me, would be unacceptable because I trust everyone: a Khan or a Kaul or a Singh or a Victor. Who represents India represents us all too, including Hindus. My best ambassadorship would be an ambassadorship for the tricolour and not for anything else because I see my Ram and Dharma in that. I don't think even an Amitabh or a Hritik would ever think in terms Shah Rukh has chosen for himself. But shouldn't these big, tall, successful Indians who wear Hindu names make a movie on why Kauls were ousted? Why Godhra occurred in the first place? Why nobody, yes, not a single Muslim, comes forward to take up the cause of the exiled and killed and contemptuously marginalized Kauls whereas every Muslim complainant would have essentially a Hindu advocate to take on Hindus as fiercely as he can? If you are Mr Khan and found dead on the railway tracks, the entire nation would be shaken. And he was also a Rizwan. May be just a coincidence that our Mr Khan in the movie is also a Rizwan. Rizwan's death saw the police commissioner punished and cover stories written by missionary writers. But if you are a Sharma or a Kaul and happened to love an Ameena Yusuf in Srinagar, you would soon find your corpse inside the police thana and NONE, not even a small-time local paper would find it worthwhile to waste a column on you. No police constable would be asked to explain how a wrongly detained person was found dead in police custody? Because the lover found dead inside a police thana was not Mr Khan. No KJ would ever come forward to make a movie on 'My name is Kaul. And I am terror-struck by Khans'. Give me back my identity as an Indian, Mr. Khan and I would have no problem even wearing your name and appreciating the tender love of an autistic son. ------------------------------------------------------ F u ck you Mr. Khan and Mr. Johar.

[veer]

god knows how KJ's movies get superhits..

[gs]

god knows how KJ's movies get superhits..

Just goes to show the intellect of aam janta ("mango" people!)

[THX_1138]

There is this fantastic movie called "savior" made in collaboration with Oliver Stone, starring an alumni of my alma mater, Dennis Quaid. The movie begins with Dennis losing his family to the actions of a muslim terrorist while on assignment with the UN in the erstwhile Yugoslavia. While the emphasis of the movie is more on his transformation from human to animal and then back to human, the movie did not shy from displaying the atrocities committed by both (rather all three sides: croats, serbs and muslims) in the Yugoslavian affair. I was quite impressed by this since most war movies, while emphasizing the suffering of a certain population usually some religious community or ethnic community, fails to demonstrate how this particular community too is guilty of abandoning civility and embracing the vengeful, hatful animal within. Roja did a good job by showing both the incivility and the humanity of the terrorists: their brutal treatment of the protagonist, but humanity in letting him eventually escape. However, one the most significant crimes against humanity, the plight of the kashmiri pandits has rather disastrously slipped under the radar. partly because they did not resort of taking up arms, or pelting stones at just about everyone except for those who were blowing up ther shops, schools, and mosques. This however, reverts back to a question i had posed previously, must India award citizenships to all Hindus?

[seedhi]

This however' date=' reverts back to a question i had posed previously, must India award citizenships to all Hindus?[/quote']No I dont think so. Apart from the fact that it might not be constitutional (though I think an amendment could be made), I dont see any need for it. Think about it - if some Hindu non-Indian wants to come to India and settle down, he can always do so. He can live here in India for 10-15 years and then anyway get citizenship. Indias arms have always been open for the Hindu diaspora, we need not be overt about it. It is more important whether the Hindus over the world consider India as their spiritual heritage and motherland.

[varun]

the plight of the kashmiri pandits has rather disastrously slipped under the radar. partly because they did not resort of taking up arms' date=' or pelting stones at just about everyone except for those who were blowing up ther shops, schools, and mosques. [/quote'] As they say, "The squeaky wheel gets the grease". If you don't make a big hue and cry about it in our country, nobody listens, and communities which can organize better, play victims better, and generally raise a large amount of noise will be catered to more. I had a Kaul roommate in uni, whose family had been displaced from Kashmir, and i only heard him refer to his family's plight once in the whole year that I knew him well. Although this tendency to look on the brighter side of life, and get on with it is quite admirable, it does tend to sweep a lot of their issues under the carpet.

[Desi_Munda]

My name is not Khan, I am Mr KaulTarun Vijay, 22 December 2009 , 08:55 AM IST I am not Khan. My name bears a different set of four letters: K A U L. Kaul. As those who know Indian names would understand I happened to be born in a family which was called Hindu by others. Hence, we were sure, we would never get a friend like KJ to make a movie on our humiliations, and the contemptuous and forced exile from our homeland. It's not fashionable. It's fashionable to get a Khan as a friend and portray his agony and pains and sufferings when he is asked by a US private to take off his shoes and show his socks. Natural and quite justifiable that Khan must feel insulted and enraged. Enough Masala to make a movie. But unfortunately I am a Kaul. I am not a Khan. Hence when my sisters and mothers were raped and killed, when six-year-old Seema was witness to the brutal slaughtering of her brother, mother and father with a butcher's knife by a Khan, nobody ever came to make a movie on my agony, pain and anguish, and tears. No KJ would make a movie on Kashmiri Hindus. Because we are not Khans. We are Kauls. When we look at our own selves as Kauls, we also see a macabre dance of leaders who people Parliament. Some of them were really concerned about us. They got the bungalows and acres of greenery and had their portraits were worshipped by the gullible devotees of patriotism. They made reservations in schools and colleges for us. In many many other states. But never did they try that we go back to our homes. They have other priorities and 'love your jihadi neighborhood' programmes. They get flabbier and flabbier with the passing of each year, sit on sacks of sermons; issue instructions to live simply and follow moral principles delivered by ancestors and kept in documents treated with time-tested preservatives. They could play with me because my name is Kaul. And not Mr Khan. I saw the trailer to this fabulous movie, which must do good business at the box office. There was not even a hint that terror is bad and it is worse if it is perpetuated in the name of a religion that means Peace. Peace be upon all its followers and all other the creatures too. So you make a movie on the humiliation of taking off shoes to a foreign police force which has decided not to allow another 9/11. The humiliation of taking off the shoes and the urge to show that you are innocent is really too deep. But what about the humiliation of leaving your home and hearth and the world and the relatives and wife and mother and father? And being forced to live in shabby tents, at the mercy of nincompoop leaders encashing your misery and bribe-seeking babus? And seeing your daughters growing up too sudden and finding no place to hide your shame? No KJ would ever come forward to make a movie, a telling, spine-chilling narration on the celluloid, of five-year-old Seema, who saw her parents and brother being slaughtered by a butcher's knife in Doda. Because her dad was not Mr Khan. He was one Mr Kaul. Sorry, Mr Kaul and your entire ilk. I can't help you. It's not fashionable to side with those who are Kauls. And Rainas. And Bhatts. Dismissively called KPs. KPs means Kashmiri Pandits. They are a bunch of communalists. They were the agents of one Mr Jagmohan who planned their exodus so that Khans can be blamed falsely. In fact, a movie can be made on how these KPs conspired their own exile to give a bad name to the loving and affectionate Khan brothers of the valley. To voice the woes of Kauls is sinful. The right course to get counted in the lists of the Prime Minister's banquets and the President's parties is to announce from the roof top: hey, men and ladies, I am Mr Khan. The biggest apartheid the state observes is to exclude those who cry for Kauls, wear the colours of Ayodhya, love the wisdom of the civilisational heritage, dare to assert as Hindus in a land which is known as Hindustan too and struggle to live with dignity as Kauls. They are out and exiled. You can see any list of honours and invites to summits and late-evening gala parties to toast a new brand. All that the Kauls are allowed is a space at Jantar Mantar: shout, weep and go back to your tents after a tiring demonstration. Mr Kaul, you have got a wrong name. A dozen KJs would fly to take you atop the glory - posts and gardens of sympathies if you accept to wear a Khan name and love a Sunita, Pranita, Komal or a Kamini. Well, here you have a sweetheart in Mandira. That goes well with the story. And you pegged the movie plot on autism. I wept. It was too much. I wept as a father of a son who needed a story as an Indian. Who cares for his autistic son, his relationship with the western world, his love affair with a young sweet something as a human, as someone whose heart goes beyond being a Hindu, a Muslim or a proselytizing Vatican-centric aggressive soul. Not the one who would declare in newspaper interviews: "I think I am an ambassador for Islam". Shah Rukh is Shah Rukh, not because he is an ambassador for Islam. If that was true, he could have found a room in Deoband. Fine enough. But he became a heartthrob and a famousl star because he is a great actor. He owes everything he has to Indians and not just to Muslims. We love him not because he is some Mr Khan. We love him because he has portrayed the dreams, aspirations, pains, anguish and ups and downs of our daily life. As an Indian. As one of us. If he wants to use our goodwill and love for strengthening his image as an ambassador for Islam, will we have to think to put up an ambassador for Hindus? That, at least to me, would be unacceptable because I trust everyone: a Khan or a Kaul or a Singh or a Victor. Who represents India represents us all too, including Hindus. My best ambassadorship would be an ambassadorship for the tricolour and not for anything else because I see my Ram and Dharma in that. I don't think even an Amitabh or a Hritik would ever think in terms Shah Rukh has chosen for himself. But shouldn't these big, tall, successful Indians who wear Hindu names make a movie on why Kauls were ousted? Why Godhra occurred in the first place? Why nobody, yes, not a single Muslim, comes forward to take up the cause of the exiled and killed and contemptuously marginalized Kauls whereas every Muslim complainant would have essentially a Hindu advocate to take on Hindus as fiercely as he can? If you are Mr Khan and found dead on the railway tracks, the entire nation would be shaken. And he was also a Rizwan. May be just a coincidence that our Mr Khan in the movie is also a Rizwan. Rizwan's death saw the police commissioner punished and cover stories written by missionary writers. But if you are a Sharma or a Kaul and happened to love an Ameena Yusuf in Srinagar, you would soon find your corpse inside the police thana and NONE, not even a small-time local paper would find it worthwhile to waste a column on you. No police constable would be asked to explain how a wrongly detained person was found dead in police custody? Because the lover found dead inside a police thana was not Mr Khan. No KJ would ever come forward to make a movie on 'My name is Kaul. And I am terror-struck by Khans'. Give me back my identity as an Indian, Mr. Khan and I would have no problem even wearing your name and appreciating the tender love of an autistic son. ------------------------------------------------------ F u ck you Mr. Khan and Mr. Johar.

M4DERFAAKER stop abusing and Get a life.

[varun]

M4DERFAAKER stop abusing and Get a life.

Andy, multiple IDs are not allowed.

[punjabi_khota]

Andy' date=' multiple IDs are not allowed.[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical: Lol Andy :fail:

[DomainK]

Andy' date=' multiple IDs are not allowed.[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[kabira]

actually there is one movie on plight of kashmiri pandit. I can't recall the name. Should Suresh Raina use his fame and name to do something for his community??

[suraj]

actually there is one movie on plight of kashmiri pandit. I can't recall the name. Should Suresh Raina use his fame and name to do something for his community??

The movie was Sheen with Raj Babbar

[I_India]

Is there not a movie with Juhi Chawla coming out soon?

[yoda]

So is SRK or whoever preventing anyone from making a movie about the plight of Kashmiris? May be beloved boy Aamir can make one such. I do find it disturbing though that they had to mix issues like disability and terrorism.

[I_India]

When I think about my home I feel a big lump in my throat and my eyes get wet :(( Anyway is this a proper movie or mini movie kind of thing?

Synopsis: I AM MEGHA (2009) Bureau News September 17th, 2009 CAST: Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Suri MUSIC: Amit Trivedi A Kashmiri Pandit woman has to go back to Kashmir after 20 years and confront her past. A past of losing trust, and faith in humanity. A past that saw 300,000 Kashmiri Hindus leave Kashmir. Since the mid eighties Kashmir has witness the final exodus of the Hindu population. MEGHA belongs to those forgotten minorities who have become refugees in their own country. This film questions the definition of freedom and “Kashmir for Kashmiriâ€. While the film does not deny or overlook the enormity of the atrocities committed by the military and government over decades, it questions a concept of freedom that eliminates the minority community from its homeland. -Sampurn Media

[coffee_rules]

So is SRK or whoever preventing anyone from making a movie about the plight of Kashmiris? May be beloved boy Aamir can make one such. I do find it disturbing though that they had to mix issues like disability and terrorism.

The article is not about accusing Mr. Khan for not making a movie on Kauls, but about the double standards in Indian psec mentality.

[yoda]

The article is not about accusing Mr. Khan for not making a movie on Kauls' date=' but about the double standards in Indian psec mentality.[/quote'] Don't see the psec'ness. More to do with some causes getting more attention that the others. Always been the case. Some diseases get more research funding than the others, some religions know how to cry foul louder than the others, etc. Anyways, I was also responding to your last line.