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• The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  
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  Mira Nairs adaptation of the bestseller, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is a compelling tale of a man torn between Islamism and capitalism, says Jenny McCartney.        
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• The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Review

  
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  Riz Ahmed’s performance dominates a multifaceted picture that is a sign of the times. Prior to watching The Reluctant Fundamentalist , I had no idea that it was originally a novel or that it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a literary prize that has gone to such novels as Life of Pi and The English ...
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• Wknd Box Office: The Great Gatsby, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Peeples, Upstream Color

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 546
  By Debbie Schlussel Nothing new that’s notable or good at theaters, this weekend. * “The Great Gatsby“: Should have been called, “The Great Glitz-by,” or “The Jay-Z-izing of F. Scott Fitzgerald.” ‘Cuz that’s all it was, a bright, loud, horribly miscast, rushed-and-yet-long 2.5 hours pretending to be ...
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• Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist – An examination of Middle East angst

  
  Nerdvana — Authority: 144
  Many Americans don’t care how terrorists like the Boston Marathon bombers develop the mindset that leads them to commit their heinous acts – but they should. We’re told that, “they hate our freedom,” but their hatred of the United States really has nothing to do with our liberty. The Reluctant ...
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• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)

  
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  Our Film Review: Some films are on really dangerous grounds in terms of content and rely on the judgments of a director and their cast, in order to work. Take Chris Morris ’ Four Lions , a dark comedy about suicide bombers. Well this adaptation of Mohsin Hamed ’s 2007 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist is ...
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• The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  
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  Most of the world is familiar with the so-called “American Dream”: you move, you build, you conquer, and hopefully, you succeed. Or something like that. What about other nation’s dreams though? “What is a Pakistani Dream; one that doesn’t involve immigration?” This is the speech that Pakistani professor ...
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• UCLA Extension Novelist Glad She Didn’t Listen to Mom

  
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  Mom had different hopes for LA journalist and author Allison Singh Gee . As the writer recalls in a delightful Q&A with the South China Morning Post , for whom she wrote extensively in the 1990s and still freelances occasionally today, it was all about TV and airborne glamour: “My mother wanted me to be ...
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• UCLA Extension Novelist Glad She Didn’t Listen to Mom

  
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  Mom had different hopes for LA journalist and author Alison Singh Gee . As the writer recalls in a delightful Q&A with the South China Morning Post , for whom she wrote extensively in the 1990s and still freelances occasionally today, it was all about TV and airborne glamour: “My mother wanted me to be ...
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• Review: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’

  
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  The 2010 film Four Lions is about a British cell of Islamic fundamentalists plotting to plant homemade explosive devices at—among other targets—the London marathon. It’s an uproarious comedy. Too soon after the Boston bombings to recall this scathing movie? Maybe, but it shouldn’t be—Chris Morris’ ...
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• Mira Nair On The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  
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  (http://kamlashow.com/podcast/wp-content/uploads/MiraNair-150x150.jpg)Mira Nair (http://www.mirabaifilms.com/mirabai/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=28)s latest films is The Reluctant Fundamentalist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfC45oq_drU).  The picture is based ...
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• The Reluctant Fundamentalist: How a Nice Islamic Guy Got Mixed Up in Terrorism

  
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  A teenager comes from a Muslim country to live in the Northeastern U.S. He goes to school here, enjoys a measure of success and moves in with his American girlfriend. But he feels the lure of radical Islam in the post-9/11 U.S. and embraces a kind of jihadism. When an act of terror erupts, he quickly becomes the ...
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• The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mira Nair and Riz Ahmed Talk Timely Tale

  
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  The Reluctant Fundamentalist arrives in theaters from director Mira Nair ( Amelia , Vanity Fair ), based on the bestselling book by Mohsin Hamid, and according to its helmer, the timing could not be better. “The more you speak of that part of the world as the others, the screaming mullahs rather than ...
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• The Making of The Reluctant Fundamentalist

  
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  Courtesy of our friends at IFC Films, Filmmaker has posted a behind the scenes featurette on The Reluctant Fundamentalist on our YouTube page. The film, which opens tomorrow in NYC and LA, tells the story of Changez (Riz Ahmed), a Pakistani man whose life in America was inexorably altered by 9/11. At the time of the ...
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• ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ Author Talks About Living a Hybrid Identity

  
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  What happens when an immigrant becomes disillusioned with his adoptive country? This is subject of director, Mira Nairs latest film "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," adapted from a novel by Mohsin Hamid.
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• Meet Award-Winning Filmmaker Mira Nair | 04.24.13

  
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  ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ Filmmaker Mira Nair & Actor Riz ahmed by  SAJA HQ  in MOVIES Acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair ‘s newest film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist , opens in selected cities this weekend. Meet the director who brought you such hits as Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake ...
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• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Dir. Mira Nair, 2012, US/UK/Qatar) - The Changing Man

  
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  Director Mira Nair’s latest feature is somewhat of an uneven film but it is an important one in the context of post 9-11 cinema. Based on the best selling novel by Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist re-situates Nair’s Diasporic gaze to a post 9-11 geopolitical context in which commerce, politics and ...
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• Tribeca: Mira Nair talks ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ and the Boston bombings — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

  
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  The Reluctant Fundamentalist premiered last year at the Venice Film Festival, but it will be a very different screening experience
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• Tribeca 2013 Preview: 3 to See

  
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  Well folks. The Tribeca Film Festival , is open for business today! While I will not be attending any live events until Friday, ahead of the official start, I had the pleasure of squeezing in a couple of pre-festival screenings. Here are some films I feel are worth a look.   BYZANTIUM (2012) Byzantium ...
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• Metaphor and Symbol in Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Los Olvidados (1950)

  
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  The four films under consideration – Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Los Olvidados (1950) – all develop what could be called a “root metaphor” for their vision of childhood and the relationships between their protagonists and other children, ...
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