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May 17, 2013 · With Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland. A young Pakistani man chasing corporate success on Wall Street finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.
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Apr 25, 2013 · Reviews. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Omer M. Mozaffar April 25, 2013. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Mira Nair 's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" follows the transformations of the wide-eyed Pakistani Changez Khan ( Riz Ahmed ), who arrives in the US with great professional ambitions.
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Anse Rainier, an American professor at Lahore University, is kidnapped and held for ransom. Bobby Lincoln, an American journalist in Pakistan, arranges to interview Rainer’s colleague Changez Khan, whom he suspects is involved in the kidnapping. Meeting Lincoln at a café, Changez declares his admiration for America’s "level playing fields" (though ...
The soundtrack album for The Reluctant Fundamentalist was composed by Michael Andrews. On selecting Andrews, Nair said: "I called him up from Delhi. We didn't waste time and were very direct. I asked him how far east he had traveled and he said, 'San Diego!' And I just started laughing."[citation needed]He layered the film's score with traditional ...
Initial screening
IFC Films and Cathay-Keris Films co-financed The Reluctant Fundamentalist, with IFC Films handling the North American distribution and Cathay handling the international release. The film had its premieres at 69th Venice International Film Festival and at the 37th Toronto International Film Festivalin late 2012. In Venice, Nair said she hoped the film reflected the fact that "the modern Pakistan is nothing like what you read in the papers" and that she hoped to bring "some sense of bridge-maki...
Worldwide screening
The film screened in festivals in the United States, Denmark, Venice, Toronto, London, Sweden, and Munich in early 2013. It was released in the United States on 26 April 2013, in India and Canada on 17 May 2013, and in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2013. In Pakistan, the film was released in Urdu as Changez on 24 May by Express Entertainment.
Box office
The Reluctant Fundamentalist earned $30,920 in its opening weekend in limited release in the United States, and went on to gross a total of $528,731. Its worldwide gross was $2,167,020. In India, the film was released in 300 theaters by PVR Limited and grossed $273,299. In its opening weekend in Sweden, the gross revenue was $12,286.
Critical response
The Reluctant Fundamentalist received mixed reviews from critics. As of November 2022[update], the film holds a 57% approval rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes based on 99 reviews, with an average rating of 6.10/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "The Reluctant Fundamentalist is technically proficient with solid acting and cinematography, but its message is so ambitious and heavy-handed that some of its power is robbed." At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean...
Accolades
The Reluctant Fundamentalist won the Audience Favorite—World Cinema award at 2012 Mill Valley Film Festival, while Nair was honored with the Mill Valley Film Festival Award that year. The Reluctant Fundamentalist won the 1st Centenary Award at 43rd International Film Festival of India. The Reluctant Fundamentalist won Truly Moving Picture Award at the 2013 Heartland Film Festival. The Reluctant Fundamentalist won Best Film of the Bernhard Wicki Film Award at the 2013 Munich Film Festival. The...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist at IMDbThe Reluctant Fundamentalist at Rotten TomatoesThe Reluctant Fundamentalist at Box Office MojoApr 25, 2013 · Ella Taylor. A probing conversation between Changez (Riz Ahmed), a young Pakistani activist, and Bobby (Liev Schreiber), an American agent, forms the core of The Reluctant Fundamentalist . IFC...
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Feb 20, 2013 · His American Dream shattered alongside his future with the radiant Erica (Kate Hudson), Khan is suddenly branded an enemy in the land he called home. The humiliation of being wrongfully arrested ...
Apr 26, 2013 · Pain & Gain. In New York, a Pakistani native (Riz Ahmed) finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Apr 25, 2013 · The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Directed by Mira Nair. Drama, Thriller. R. 2h 10m. By Manohla Dargis. April 25, 2013. It’s no wonder that the words Islamic and fundamentalism are often so...
