Had seen this movie ‘Yasmin’ yesterday. I had borrowed it from the British Library cus the cover of the DVD showed the face of someone familiar, with the tagline, One Woman Two lives. A good cinema, this one. Nothing great in any way. But i liked the way a British director has potrayed the emotions undergone by a Muslim Girl post 9/11. The actress was the fiesty Archie Panjabi whom i had previously seen in “Bend It Like Beckham”. The plot basically revolves around this second generation Brit lady who is a Muslim, on how she handles the dual lives she’s leading. Then 9/11 happens and racism goes to an altogether new level. No Yasmin dosent become a terrorist or anything, but the movie depicts how international terrorism in general and 9/11 in particular affects normal Muslims who donot even know who Osama Bin Laden is. Just because Muslims belong to the same faith as the terrorist should they be sorry for the acts commited by those monsters in the name of Islam? That is the question the fim poses. The events change Yasmin’s attitude, her brother Nasir is brainwashed by one of those mullahs and finally goes off to Pakistan. The film ends with an emotional scene between the father and his daughter Yasmin.
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