I guess we Asian Americans have paper sons… and toilet paper sons! Whatever it takes, man. One story that didn’t make the cut was that a certain immigrant who shall be unnamed had to break the toilet of non-amebiasis infected White people in order to get a stool sample to pass the medical requirements for his visa. Khan reported that the script grew out of stories her immigrant father and others told her about their own sometimes madcap adventures, and the real stories of our own “hidden figures” in microwave oven development (and many other fields, of course). Lena Khan was on hand with many members of cast and crew, from stars Danny Pudi (of NBC’s Community fame), Rizwan Manji (NBC’s Outsourced), Jon Heder ( Napoleon Dynamite), and Sam Page ( Mad Men) producers Megha Kadakia, Nazia Khan and Alan Pao and production designer Michael Fitzgerald. But really, we have to Make It after all. I think we’re all ready to see that sign of the times. It leaves us all wanting to set our sights on Aquarius, as do the hero and heroine in their final scenes, symbolizing social consciousness, humanitarianism, and spiritual uplift.
The ending is less a cliffhanger than a bridge-builder, I’d say. Sami takes the physical journey from India to America he sets off on a hunting expedition in the form of killing it at work and then embarks on a spiritual journey beyond America towards some higher state (California, of course), with the promise of love and redemption, in itself not a form of completion, but rather the beginning of a new adventure. Danny Pudi plays the lead role in “The Tiger Hunter.” He jumps into the mouth of the dragon of corporate America, but deep in the belly, and even after he gets to the dragon’s head, he discovers there’s something more. He encounters gatekeepers, antagonists, and external and internal opponents, as he traverses the ocean of his aspirations towards his Penelope. (1) Immigrants, we get the job done and (2) perhaps we are all immigrants on a lifelong night sea journey, on which, as Goethe wrote, “the eternal feminine draws us upward.” Sami Malik, our Indian Odysseus, makes many journeys. THE TIGER HUNTER blends an epic hero narrative, complete with faint echoes of Homer’s original Odyssey, with an ensemble cast that embodies and enacts the immigrant ethos of collaboration and mutual aid, and the humor of personalities and cultural mixups and mashups, to reveal elemental and important truths in this era of travel bans and deportations of undocumented parents before the eyes of their young children. Make Yourself, but more importantly, Make America. It’s not “Make America Great Again.” It’s simply, and profoundly, “Make America.” Lena Khan’s delightful, timely comic odyssey THE TIGER HUNTER, were it a candidate, would get its campaign slogan right. Cognitive closings presage border closings, and other contractions of the mind and heart.
Compare “Hope,” “Yes We Can” and “Change We Can Believe In.” Campaign slogans should be cognitive openings, not closings.
They insist that there is some state of totality and completion in the great past or present.
“Make America Great Again” and “Stronger Together” were both forms of cognitive closure, or trying to screw down what should be inscrutable. If campaign slogans supply a candidate’s lift and appeal, both fell flat. Sami takes the physical journey from India to America he sets off on a hunting expedition in the form of killing it at work and then embarks on a spiritual journey beyond America towards some higher state.ĭonald Trump went too far from the very beginning.
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