The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Theatres List

The tone of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the book, is such that retaining it for a film is near impossible. For those who are fans of the book, prepare to be disappointed if you are a stickler for such details. Mohsin Hamid apparently wrote the screen story, so much of the original flavour is retained, but given time constraints, plot points are placed more according to convenience than literature.

The premise is the same. A young Pakistani man named Changez (Riz Ahmed) sits in a tea shop and recalls his time in the United States of America. Unlike the book, where the other pe....