The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
Country: US/GB/IND/PAK/QAT
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland
Synopsis:
A graduating Pakistani student gets a job in New York as a financial analyst, but is called upon to reassess his attitude to fundamentalism of all kinds following the WTC attacks.
Review:
Cleverly packaged by the writers around a kidnapping by islamists in Lahore and the protagonist's involvement or otherwise in it, this thoughtful appraisal of the orthodoxies that drive our world is both present-time thriller and flashback human drama, as Changez sees his treatment at the hands of New Yorkers undergo a sea change after 9/11. Nair tellingly contrasts the lush, colourful settings in Lahore with the antiseptic interiors of NYC.
Country: US/GB/IND/PAK/QAT
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland
Synopsis:
A graduating Pakistani student gets a job in New York as a financial analyst, but is called upon to reassess his attitude to fundamentalism of all kinds following the WTC attacks.
Review:
Cleverly packaged by the writers around a kidnapping by islamists in Lahore and the protagonist's involvement or otherwise in it, this thoughtful appraisal of the orthodoxies that drive our world is both present-time thriller and flashback human drama, as Changez sees his treatment at the hands of New Yorkers undergo a sea change after 9/11. Nair tellingly contrasts the lush, colourful settings in Lahore with the antiseptic interiors of NYC.
Country: US/GB/IND/PAK/QAT
Technical: col/2.35:1 130m
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland
Synopsis:
A graduating Pakistani student gets a job in New York as a financial analyst, but is called upon to reassess his attitude to fundamentalism of all kinds following the WTC attacks.
Review:
Cleverly packaged by the writers around a kidnapping by islamists in Lahore and the protagonist's involvement or otherwise in it, this thoughtful appraisal of the orthodoxies that drive our world is both present-time thriller and flashback human drama, as Changez sees his treatment at the hands of New Yorkers undergo a sea change after 9/11. Nair tellingly contrasts the lush, colourful settings in Lahore with the antiseptic interiors of NYC.