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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (29-Aug-2012)

Director: Mira Nair

Writers: Ami Boghani; Mohsin Hamid; William Wheeler

From novel by: Mohsin Hamid

Keywords: Thriller, Pakistan

Film adaptation of the 2007 novel of the same name follows a Pakistani businessman as he struggles with his faith and identity in the wake of 9/11.

ABSTRACT
Changez, a prodigious Princeton graduate looking to make a name for himself on Wall Street, witnesses his life getting thrown for a curve when the attacks of September 11 transpire while he is away on a business-related excursion in the Philippines. Subjected to an automatic strip-search upon arriving back in New York City, Changez finds his heretofore positive opinion of his adopted homeland subject to sudden change when he is forced to adjust to the realities of a society now viewing its Middle Eastern denizens with marked suspicion.

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Riz Ahmed
Actor
1-Dec-1982   Four Lions
Martin Donovan
Actor
19-Aug-1957   The Portrait of a Lady
Nelsan Ellis
Actor
30-Nov-1977 8-Jul-2017 Lafayette Reynolds on True Blood
Kate Hudson
Actor
19-Apr-1979   Almost Famous
Mahmood Mamdani
Author
?   When Victims Become Killers
Om Puri
Actor
18-Oct-1950 6-Jan-2017 East is East
Liev Schreiber
Actor
4-Oct-1967   Actor, voiceover talent
Kiefer Sutherland
Actor
21-Dec-1966   24

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