I Am Gorjazz

Tonight, my heart weeped. For every child facing terror in the face. For every woman who has lost a son. For every Muslim facing persecution. For every human being fighting to be accepted. For every person that speaks – and acts – without knowledge. For every mother whose only knowledge is love. For every leader who sees injustice being done and yet does nothing. For every child who learns about hate through their parents. For everyone who sees race as a barrier to happiness. For every culture who thinks theirs is the most supreme. For our humanity. For our souls.

Tonight, my heart weeped. For every single human being who does not realize that the choices they make come with repercussions. For every single human being who does not realize they have the power over that choice. For every single human being who does not realize they can choose to not make that choice. For every single human being who does realize.
Tonight, my heart weeped. For me and for you. For us.

What started as an outing to watch ‘my knight-in-shining-armour’ clad in his button-down white shirt turned out to be a slap in my face. I vehemently did not want to read any write-up, review, comment – even synopsis! – about this movie. All that mattered was that Shahrukh Khan was in it and that was more than enough for me. I was not even interested in my usual orange twister and twisties combination. All I wanted to see was Shahrukh Khan. As I sat through the first feel-good hour of his latest box-office movie ‘I Am Khan’, I thought, “OK, this is weird - no singing and dancing scenes…amazing!”

However, I was not prepared for all the singing and dancing my tortured insides endured during the 2hour and 45minute movie. I was not prepared for Sam fighting against ignorance and having a 13-year old son myself, this was too much for me to bear. My heart ached a phsical pain. I literally felt a sharp dagger thrust into me and I was bleeding from the pain. I can only remember one other time when I had that kind of pain in the past decade of my life, and that was from a real-life experience. This was a blinking movie!

‘I Am Khan’ is life-changing for me.

Though some would be cynical about the apparent storyline, it is the salient meaning that I am referring to. The message that I took home. The message that is dissolving itself into my being as I pen these thoughts down. Not the fact that love is the ultimate ‘weapon’ or that knowledge is the key to acceptance - simple ‘take-homes’ that we can all relate to in this complicated world where we know, there has been a breakthrough in the understanding of our ‘differences’ - all brought about from the horrors of 9-11. These are all obvious messages.

What was life-changing for me to realize is that no matter how we dissect life according to socio-economic status, colour, creed, castes or even hair colour – there will always just be two kinds of people – good people and bad people. People who see the beauty in others. And people who destroy the beauty in others. And every single day of our lives, we have to consciously – or subconsciously – make this decision to be either one. Sometimes the choice needs to be made more than once in the course of our day. There, in between these moments, lies the secret to humanity. The power to choose.

A must-see movie for every single human being. Leave the twister and the twisties. Just bring in your heart and allow it to be filled.

Good or bad? THE CHOICE IS YOURS.

This is my twosenworth.