There's a double meaning to the title of "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," filmmaker Mira Nair's great, gripping and complex drama based on the 2007 novel by Mohsin Hamid about the roots of extremism.
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is a 9/11 film, or more accurately a post-9/11 film, a movie about the impact on one man of the al-Qaida attacks and the American reaction to them. The story of Changez ...
If you think your job is tough, imagine the poor studio marketing shlubs tasked with selling an emotionally fraught character study about an enterprising young Wall Street hotshot turned intense ...
Mohsin Hamid's slender, gemlike novel receives illuminating but heavy-handed screen treatment. Adapted by William Wheeler (with Mohsin and Ami Boghani receiving story credit), the novel took the form ...
In Pilibhit, Changez Khan was allegedly assaulted by Sanjay Mishra and his associates. Although hospitalized with serious injuries, Khan faced molestation charges instead of receiving justice. Police ...
Bareilly/Pilibhit: A man, in his 20s, was allegedly brutally beaten by a right-wing activist identified as Sanjay Mishra and his associates in Puranpur town of Pilibhit on the night of Sept 1, and ...
Director Mira Nair's film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is based on a novel first published six years ago. But in the shocking aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, the movie arrives amid intense ...
Either by accident or cunning design, the 19th Bradford International Film Festival opens with a new film by UK director Michael Winterbottom and closes with a film starring Riz Ahmed, whose first ...
As the country struggles to understand what could have motivated two seemingly assimilated young Chechen-Americans to plant a bomb at the Boston Marathon and cut a swath of destruction through the ...