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Abstract
September 11, 2001, or 9/11, as it is widely known, was not just another day. It literally shook the world and the tremors ran deep into the obscure soils of history. The aftermath of the attack has changed the aspects of world politics, business, and life in general. In order to sensitise the world on the effects of the 9/11 attacks, many literary writers wrote novels and poems with 9/11 as the milieu. Few writers also attempted to trace counter-narratives to oppose the dominant narrative. Similarly, as twenty-first century is the age of watching many filmmakers have found a strong substance in the events related to 9/11 to make documentaries, crime thrillers, and family dramas. This has in turn opened the possibilities of undertaking literary analysis on the aftermath of 9/11 attacks on humanity. The proposed research paper intends to make a new historicist reading of Reluctant Fundamentalist directed by Mira Nair, an adaptation based on the novel with the same title written by Mohsin Hamid, Fahrenheit 9/11, a documentary film directed by Michael Moore and My Name is Khan directed by Karan Johar. The rationale behind choosing these films is that they belong to different genres including documentary, fiction, and a literary adaptation, which would foster a multidimensional viewpoint to trace the counter-narratives of the 9/11 attack. Further, this study will also analyse the treatment of race and identity in the films of the post 9/11 era.