Movie Review - "The Reluctant Fundamentalist".

          

This blog is a part of my classroom activity of Postcolonial Studies: Film Screening: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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Director – Mira Niar

Screenplay – William Wheeler

        Writer – Javed Akhtar (eulogy in

              Urdu) Mohsin Hamid (Screen

               Story and Novel) Ami Boghani

        (Screen story)

 Starring – Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson,

                                    Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland

                                                                       

  

                              “The Reluctant Fundamentalism”,  In the movie we see Islamic fundamentalism is obviously opposite to the modern west in that it reject individual autonomy, and democracy in the name of Islam .

                             The Reluctant Fundamentalist goes for on unknown terrorist, in its use of ethnic profiling and stereotyping it show the increased suspicious and anger prompted by terrorist. attacked as conductive to psychological state that motivate terrorist activity.

                           Changez retrospective narrative, which accounts for his opposition to the west maps psychological cross culture, tension on to the present moment, of telling contribution to the mounting suspense, after encounter as an uncertainty about what is happening, or will happen after the part of company establishing that exchange.

                           Religious fundamentalism as a form of political, Revival is crucial to the political dimensions of the plot and tension between Fundamentalist and unlighted secular corrector at the end of the novel.

                            Jim cross (leader)say remember fundamentalism it’s menace profit. Here market fundamentalism and religious fundamentalism both are looking together, they in way  doing same terrorism that tryst to narrated same thing.

                           Frame narration story within a story ,one day suddenly professor N.C.Renner in the American professor working, in a Lahore university.  he is coming out of cinema theatre and he has abduct , and suddenly CIA  Boby Lincon named a journalist and for  a suspect is Changez khan.  he is a protagonist , boby lincon  making a interview, whole film is a going on a like interview it is one narration.

                        Boby Lincon  is a taken interview of a changes khan.

                                                                     

 And then flashback in introduction of a changes khan who is a changes khan. In the interview there is one dialogue  I liked most and also very interesting , changes khan speak , “ Nazre bhi dhokha kha sakti hai “.  

                       Doing the corruption for company benefits or profit of the company is doing a less staff and making a profit for company . it’s a successes story of the any changes khan , how many people are unemployed.jim cross is leader there success is a job less of so many people .

                      And there is a library , it is also increasing the cost therefore it will also have to do privatization. They father was poet and Changez khan  he is a business man in  the conflict between  Literature and market there conflict is very inter vowel. That is why librarian asking their what is doing he was say my father is poet he belongs to a Urdu traditional of literature . he say you will see the library such that it will not be profitable it is harmful.

                     At that time he give example, that you are modern janissaries it say for, by kidnapping a Christian child and making him a Muslim and fight in front on Christian. It’s become market fundamentalism. Private corporation houses, America , 9/11 , Urdu tradition, the literature, the conflict between father and son.     These all are beautifully inter viewed. And what is going on now.

                   Conflict of fundamentalism market , religion, literature  and business every thing it’s enter vowed in  deferent capacity.

                                                                   

                     In movie lot’s of scene is postcolonial concept, how identity take place in the movie it’s  very significance.  And also there  identity how they harm.  they suffer a lot every where.   The feeling of being “Other” in an America becoming stronger for Changez, as his beard has became his identity of being Muslim. Before 9/11 he was a clean shaved guy, but when everyone make him feel that he is a Muslim, he started keeping beard, maybe he was also showing a kind of patriotism towards his country as Americans were showing.

Thank you….