At the movies: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist comes to big screens this Friday.
From Award-winning director Mira Nair, and based on the acclaimed novel by Mohsin Hamid, comes the explosive new film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
In 2010, as student demonstrations rage in Lahore, young Pakistani professor Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed) is interviewed by American journalist Bobby Lincoln (Liev Schreiber).
Princeton-educated Changez tells Lincoln of his past as a brilliant business analyst on Wall Street.
He talks of the glittering future that lay before him. But in the aftermath of 9/11, the alienation and suspicion he is suddenly met with leads him back to his homeland.
The meeting between Lincoln and Changez follows the kidnapping of a professor by extremists, and the clock is ticking toward the deadline for his execution.
The film also stars Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland.
It opens on August 23.
