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The Reluctant Fundamentalist movie review: Reluctant storytelling that fails to tug at your heartstrings
Mira Nair’s film on Mohsin Hamid’s book is good cinema, but doesn’t live up to expectations
Cast: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Imaad Shah, Chandrachud Singh, Meesha Shafi What is the event at the turn of the century that will stay in the minds of the Americans? The September 11 attacks, of course. You would think that the election and re-election of Barack Obama as President and the death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden would have overtaken that traumatic event on the global big-news list. But world over, countless feature films and docu-dramas continue to be made against the backdrop of the 2001 attack on the United States of America. Click here to read moreClick to Comment
Mira Nair: Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson share fantastic chemistry in The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Padma Bhushan Mira Nair has a candid chat with British journalist and Indian cinema expert Ashanti Omkar about her latest cinematic release, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
At the London Film Festival you had a full house UK premiere for The Reluctant Fundamentalist and it’s now getting a full worldwide release… We finished the film in August 2012 and had it ready for the Venice International Film Festival for its world premiere Click here to read moreSalman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Sridevi attend Marathi channel launch: View pics!
The who’s who of Bollywood was present at the glitzy do!
It was certainly a starry night. And with Mallika Sherawat, Chitrangda Singh, Sridevi, Priyanka Chopra, Riteish Deshmukh, Sunil Shetty, Urmila Matondkar, Shreyas Talpade and none other than Salman Khan making their glamorous presence felt among many other B-town stars at the launch of a new Marathi channel, Jai Maharashtra, at Mumbai’s Grand Hyatt, the mercury only went up. Click here to read moreMallika Sherawat’s desi look in Dirty Politics: View pics
The sultry babe will be playing Anokhi Devi in KC Bokadia’s next which is loosely based on the gang-rape victim from Rajasthan, Bhanwari Devi
Mallika Sherawat has taken up a challenging role this time around in Dirty Politics. And it seems the babe recently cancelled her dinner party with US President Barack Obama for promoting the movie. Click here to read moreMira Nair’s Salaam Bombay premiere: Revisiting a masterpiece!
Mira Nair held a special premiere of her 1988 film recently in Mumbai. The internationally-acclaimed filmmaker also released the trailer of her next venture, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Considered one of the best movies ever made (and the New York Times made that claim, not us!), Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay was premiered once again nearly 25 years after its first release. Click here to read moreShekhar Suman completes his directorial debut Heartless
Actor-anchor Shekhar Suman, who has turned director with Heartless, has completed the filming of his maiden project
“The shooting is over and the post-production has started in full swing,” said a source. Heartless is a medical thriller Click here to read moreThe Reluctant Fundamentalist trailer: Om Puri and Shabana Azmi feature prominently in the promo!
The movie adapted from the book by the same name looks like one of the more interesting movies on the subject of terrorism
This year it’s a cool coincidence that two great books about the Asian subcontinent have been made into movies by women of Indian origin. The first was Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, which was Click here to read moreWhy is cricketer Harbhajan Singh making his acting debut with a Punjabi film?
The Turbanator of Indian cricket will be seen on the big screen soon, but not in a Bollywood movie. He will start off his acting career with a Punjabi production instead
Harbhajan Singh can make world class batsmen dance to the tunes of his unpredictable doosra, but now the talented off-spinner himself is all set to shake a leg on the silver screen. A little birdie tells us that the Bhajji will make his debut with an upcoming Punjabi film which will be produced by Akshay Kumar and Ashvini Yardi’s Grazing Goat Pictures. Click here to read more
