Fresh-off-boat from Pakistan, Changez (Riz
Ahmed) finds a quality education, the girl of his dreams (Erica (Kate Hudson))
and a career of his dreams on Wall Street, in The Reluctant Fundamentalist. It is post 9/11 that the dissonances
between what he has left behind and what he has become tear apart Changez’
life. A humiliating strip-search at the airport. A buyout mandate that
displaces – renders redundant – a Turkish publisher who is the keeper of the
works of many poets, including Changez’ father. A girlfriend who turns around
and makes a public exhibition of private vignettes of the relationship with
Changez. Perhaps it is time to return to the country of birth and try and
improve matters. But, is it also time to give in to the dark clouds of
radicalism that hover around Changez. The question lingers in the air, even as
the movie trails off with the inevitable real conflicts between the two worlds
that Changez traverses
12.5/20
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