FRANCIS DIANNE J.

CORTES
BSED-II

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, suffers from Asperger’s
syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism that complicates socialization. Rizwan marries a
Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at
LAX who mistaken his disability for suspicious behavior. Following his arrest, he meets Radha, a
therapist who helps him deal with his situation and his affliction. Rizwan then begins a journey
to meet US President Obama to clear his name.
When the younger brother of Rizwan who is Zakir sponsor him to come and live with him in
San Francisco. At that moment Rizwan encountered another culture, known as “Culture
Shock”.He has a big adjustment in interacting socially to the others. That leads on a heightened
level of adaptation of living.
After the adjustment, Rizwan begins to work for Zakir as an herbal salesman and in the
process he meets a Hindu woman, Mandira and her young son, from her previous marriage.
Despite Zakir’s hostility to the match, they marry and settle down in the fictional town of Banville,
where both Mandira and Samir takes Rizwan’s last name as their own. They also live next door
to the Garrick family. Sam is close with their young son, Reese while Mark is a journalist and Sarah
is a friend of Mandira. This scene present the different profession and statutes between Garrick
and Khan Family, known as the “ Subculture”.
Whenever Rizwan is different from the others, he remained a kind person he is. He set out
his journey in US state to another in order to first meet President George W. Bush and later
Barack Obama. While he was in other country he remain his love and loyalty to Allah by way of
praying the exact time to call on his Lord. Even though others reminds him to take consideration
the place and the people around him, where he is going to pray. Rizwan challenged on the central
norms and values of the prevailing culture, known as “Counter Cultures”. Because he stand, on
what he believe.
The movie reminds me that we seem to criticize and judge other people when we haven’t
walked in their shoes and never can because everyone’s life is different. It’s so easy to think our
lives are more difficult than anyone else’s. But in truth we don’t know what happens behind
closed doors and everyone has their own private struggles. I know there are times when we
need to speak the truth because a person is doing something that could hurt themselves or
others. There are times when someone want’s our opinion. But unless the situation, perhaps
the best policy is to shut up and give the people the benefit of the doubt unless there’s
something we can do to make things better for them.