Movie review of Reluctant Fundamentalist

"The Reluctant Fundamentalist"

                  - Mohsin Hamid

Directed by Mira Nair

Produced by Lydia Dean Pilcher

Written by Mohsin Hamid

                 Ami Boghani

Screenplay by William Wheeler

                Rutvik Oza

Based on The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Starring:

Riz Ahmed

Kate Hudson

Liev Schreiber

Kiefer Sutherland

The novel “Reluctant Fundamentalist” is written by a Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid. It is based on 9/11 incident. This is adopted as a movie by Mira Nair. The protagonist is Changez Khan. The image was created by American as a superior, he has in his mind. He has an American dream. He works in America very well. But as time passes he comes to know that he exploiting his ‘‘own people’’. He himself drives thousands of people into unemployment.

  Afterward he comes to know that they are considered as a Pakistani terrorist instead of a Pakistani man. It is also constructed image by English people. Here Changez tries to remove this image through the postcolonial tool. He is coming from third world country, so he knows very well about the aspects of post colonialism. And through this tool he tries to remove the identity which is imposed or constructed. He tries to remove the identity through the basic fundamental. He comes into introduction of two different persons, who are talked about fundamental at the surface level.

For example –

Jim Cross – ‘‘we do that by focusing on the fundamentals’’ and

Mustafa Fazil – ‘‘our only hopes as a people are the fundamental truths…’’

  Everybody talked about fundamental but the thing is that nobody knows the basic fundamental. Changez tries to gave basic fundamentals like, 

      ‘‘Acts of love’’ and ‘‘Humanity’’.

  Colonial people forget these two aspects. So through the mouthpiece of Changez, Mohsin Hamid tries to reached these two aspects to the people through postcolonial. American people created the image of Pakistani as a terrorist. Moreover the component represent as a dull, dark and deserted country. The identity of them is as a terrorist. Here in this movie it shows that how the companies of America run and how they exploited other countries. Moreover hero tries to remove that identity which was imposed or created by American elites for their own profit. This movie we saw on the base of Edward Said’s “Orientalism”. “Orientalism” is also talked the same thing. He criticized on the mentality of American People that they have the habit to see Orient people as an inferior and also imposed the mentality of them on the people of Orient so they also seemed themselves as an inferior.