The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist Directed by Mira Nair Written by Mohsin Hamid, Ami Boghani, and William Wheeler USA, 2013 At this point, it’s fairly trite if accurate to acknowledge how drastically the world has shifted since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. An equally cliched argument is how the United States has, since that ill-fated …

  The Reluctant Fundamentalist India, Pakistan, USA 2012 Written by William Wheeler Directed by Mira Nair The Reluctant Fundamentalist deals with timely and important concerns like terrorism, prejudice, and paranoid xenophobia.  And yet it undermines its relevance by packaging its premise in an overtly dramatized narrative.  There’s no question that the filmmakers want to handle …