Movie Review - "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" directed by Mira Niar
This blog is a part of my classroom activity of Postcolonial Studies: Film Screening: The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Cast :-
Riz Ahmed as Changez Khan
Kate Hudson as Erica
Liev Schreiber as Bobby Lincoln
Kiefer Sutherland as Jim Cross
Om Puri as Abu, Changez's father
Shabana Azmi as Ammi, Changez's mother
Meesha Shafi as Bina Khan, Changez's sister
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) by Mira Nair. She is an Indian filmmaker and actress based in New York.She made films based on novels.
She also made one movie named The Namesake. This movie The Namesake is based on one novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri under the same title The Namesake (2004). This film is released in 2006. This film is also very good and she given appropriate justice to this film also.
If we talk about The Reluctant Fundamentalist this film is similar to the movie called New York (film) released in 2009. In New York movie hero's motif is to take revenge and here in this movie we can say that hero's motif is good to forgive everyone.
She also made one movie named The Namesake. This movie The Namesake is based on one novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri under the same title The Namesake (2004). This film is released in 2006. This film is also very good and she given appropriate justice to this film also.
If we talk about The Reluctant Fundamentalist this film is similar to the movie called New York (film) released in 2009. In New York movie hero's motif is to take revenge and here in this movie we can say that hero's motif is good to forgive everyone.
Movie Review - "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
The Fundamental Reluctant” is movie released in 2014, directed by Mira Nair, it is not less than any Hollywood movie, its script is written by Mohsin Hamid, Mohsin is well known English writer in Pakistan who’s achieved readers of the world. This movie is all about political controversy and 9/11 attack, idea of East and West, American dream of Changez. Professor of Pakistan University Changez and Bobby Lincoln played a vital role in the movie.
Changez Khan, the hero of the novel, in frame narration story move forward, as Changez who at present live in Pakistan, tells his life story to an American journalist who is also secret agent of CIA.
When Changez lives in America, he has to suffer a lot. he is very happy to get a job in an American company but then he realizes that whatever order is given by his boss is to be completed by him. He feels that Erica is also not faithful with him. She publishes some of his photos stating that “I had one Pakistani”. American police caught Changez doubting upon him as there were controversies regarding Muslims and Al Qaeda.
Three people, Changez, his boss and a African man are going somewhere and police asks to show them their passports and prove their identity. When they come to know that Changez is Pakistani, they take him and check his body. This shows that how a Pakistani man has to suffer in other country.Changez feels that hypocrisy, ignorance is there in America and so his dream breaks. He has to prove his identity everywhere in America.
While concluding this we can say that the movie gives message to remove the colonialism between different nation and “to live and let the live”. This movie is related with the reality of the colonial nations and their capitalism and effect of “ Third world “ country people that how to live life by becoming equal but truth is always bitter and it harmful for Ego and Super Ego which leads us towards the difficulties of two different countries.
Here is the full movie
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