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Picture 18
2. Keeping Indian’s tradition; paints her skin as a new bride.
Every new bride wants to look beautiful and perfect on her wedding day. One of Indias traditions in the wedding for bride is to paint some beautiful shades over
her hands with a skin ink named henna. Mandira’s hand also painted by henna as a
sign of a happy Indian’s newlyweds. It means she identifies herself that she is Indian immigrant which still reminds her own culture even she stays in another country. this
culture can be shown at the picture 19.
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Picture 19
3. Speaking and Singing Indian’s language
In Mandira’s daily life, she speaks Indian with all Indian’s fellows which all of them also an immigrant like her. As like as Khan do, Mandira still use Indian’s
language although she stays in America. Although English is the majority language that all most of her salon guest is native America, but she often uses Indian’s
language whom also come from India around them. Here is one example taken from the dialogue in one scene when she talks with her friend
Madam Rita, which showed this representation:
Dialogue 14: In Karma’s salon
Mandira : “To yaha aaree hai tum? To he paas meri jaatihu”talking to madam
00:29:46,001 -- 00:29:47,514
Madam : “
Thik”
The dialogues above is happened when Khan comes to Karma’s salon and talks to
Madam Rita, then Mandira comes and stops Madam Rita’s joke. Besides speaks in original language, Mandira also likes to sing Indian’s song. Together with
Khan, she always sings it to motivate herself in doing anything. With the same lyrics, she repeats it randomly as often as possible if she feels down. The lyric is:
“hum hongge kaami aap, hum hongge kaami aap eik din, ohoo manme hai wishvaas, poora hai wishvaas, hum hongge kaami aap eik dinn”Scene 2
4. Hindu’s tradition; keeping pray and worship
Every religion teaches all people in the world to do a good deeds and faithful of their religion. It also can be ascertained each religion has a different way of
worship. As a creature of God, every people should pry and faith to each God they believed in a different way that also has been determined by the respective religion.
As like Mandira, she was in an environment where Christian is the majority religion. Although she is a Hindu, Like Islam, Hindu is the minority religion in America, she
still keeps praying on His God in her religion way, Hindu tradition. It can be seen from the scene the writer takes from the movie when Mandira blesses her son with
blowing her son’s face on and gave some blessing cake to her son after praying. She uses some of candle light and some myrrh for praying. This representation can be
seen from the pictures below.
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Picture 20 Picture 21
From description above, Rizvan Khan and Mandira Khan are two characters in the movie which both of two characters are assimilated. They represent a little
American from their costume style, cuisine, and language. They can pass their life in America but still keeps their culture. Based on the theory that has been described in
previous chapters, the identity of Indian immigrants are the people who work hard, and often gather with their community. There are several scenes in this film also
shows the identity of Indians who became immigrants in America
.
From activity aspect, Indian people are collectivist people. Then, they like to work in groups and always enjoy working as members of a group. This aspect is can
be seen from the scenes in the movie. It showed from Mandira Khan, if we look at the scene takes place in Karma’s salon, most of the workers of the salon are Indian.
Rizvan’s bhai also do the same thing. He has some of beauty products
company and he employs a lot of Indian people and one of them is Khan. One of the most notable scene shows the Indian’s identity is when Rizvan Khan helps the people
affected by natural disasters in Wilhelmina, many Indian people who finally got together and moved to join to help and come directly to that place. This shows that
Indian people would prefer to live in their community in the place they migrated. Based on Judy Giles and Middleton’s book, the writer takes conclusion that
both of two characters included of negotiated. While a negotiated would not accept
whole of two cultures, such Indian or American cultural identities, but negotiate both.
CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
My Name is Khan is a film by Karan Johar, one of famous Indian film director. The abstract of this film takes the issue of Muslims’ theme in America are
often associated with terrorism. Absolutely, this film tells about the life of Rizvan Khan, a Muslim who suffers from Aspergers syndrome and tells a lot about the
extraordinary love journey of him in America to meet with the President and to tell him that Muslims are not terrorists since the death of Sameer, his step’s son. Muslim
life in America becomes uncomfortable after the attacks of 9 11 WTC. The first thing, the writer analyzes in this research is two characters in the
film; Rizvan Khan and Mandira Khan. Both characters have an important role in every steps of the story, because they often appear in every scene and perform with
the conflict and through their dialogues and acts which build the story in the film. Rizvan Khan is an Indian immigrant since his mother’s death. He is a man
afflicted with asperger’s syndrome, a type of autism which allows him to lead a relatively normal life, but even so, since he was child he is really intelligent and
genius. He could speak English well. He also could repair any machine since he was
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