The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a 2012 political thriller drama film based on the 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, directed by Mira Nair, starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in lead.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a post-9/11 story about the impact of the Al Qaeda attacks on one Pakistani man and his treatment by Americans in reaction to them
Changez Khan is a middle class Pakistani from Lahore chasing his dream of success in a prestigious Wall Street valuation firm. Favoured by his boss, his future is looking to be on his planned upward trajectory but whilst on company business in the Philippines, he watches news footage of the twin towers falling and suddenly his future takes an entirely different path.
- Release Date: 18th May 2013
- Director: Mira Nair
- Kiefer Sutherland: Jim Cross
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
- Martin Donovan as Ludlow Cooper, a CIA officer and investigator
- Adil Hussain as Mustafa Fazil, a Muslim Activist and Mujahid
- Imaad Shah as Sameer, an academic intern at Lahore University
- Chandrachur Singh as Bandy Uncle
- Ashwath Bhatt as Junaid
- Haluk Bilginer as Nazmi Kemal
- Nelsan Ellis as Wainwright
- Christopher Nicholas Smith as Mike Rizzo
- Victor Slezak as Underwood
- Clayton Landey as Agent Jackson
- Roy McCrerey as Agent Ford
- Mark Oliver as an Immigration Officer
- Steven Kulesza as Shredder No. 1
- Kevin Miller as Shredder No. 2
- Javed Basu-Kesselman as Pakistani James Bond
- Ankur Chatterjee as Pakistani Cab Driver No. 1
- Ritwik Chatterjee as Pakistani Cab Driver No. 2
- Sonya Jehan as Nadia
- Gary Richardson as an American professor