The suicide bombings in London last year are already prompting the Movie Industry to commit stories to film, however this one isn’t from Hollywood, it’s from Bollywood, and will look into the mind of one of the terrorists.
According to Reuters through Yahoo:
Mahesh Bhatt’s Suicide Bomber, to be set in Britain and India, will also seek to spread the message that Islam is a religion of peace, mercy and forgiveness, the leading director told Reuters on Wednesday…
…”The film will be an attempt to clarify Islam is not demonic and to delve into the mind of a young suicide bomber to try to find out what drives him to reject life for a violent death.”
Bhatt’s 21-year-old son, Rahul, will play the lead role — an Asian Muslim living in Britain who is drawn by radical ideology to kill himself and others in the name of faith, but who fails in his deadly mission and flees to India.
“There, life grabs our young man and then it becomes a struggle between (his) heart and his commitment to ideology,” Bhatt said. Shooting is slated to begin in June and the film may be ready for a December release.
The story does reveal that he’s mainly been inspired by a story in Time Magazine giving the account of a suicide bomber in Iraq before he committed his terrible act.
Like the account of a 9/11 terrorist in The Hamburg Cell this looks set to be a controversial yet revealing movie. However I just can’t help feeling that there might be a level of bias creeping in after one of the comments on the story:
“Muslims are demonized by the western nations especially after the so-called war on terror. The gulf between Muslims and the rest of the world is widening,” Bhatt said.
Woah, I’m in the Western World and I am not demonising Muslims one bit. In fact I’m intelligent enough to realise the separation of fundamentalist and Muslim, and there are many more like me. It’s exactly these kind of generalising quotes that are widening the gulf, and from both sides. I really do hope that comment was out of context, or I fear we may be in for a movie that doesn’t help us understand, and it could do more harm than good.
If you want an excellent example of how the matter can be treated then you should see The Hamburg Cell.
