After the mixed response to her latest Hollywood big-budget film Amelia, Mira Nair is all set to plunge into a far more contemporary and headline-screaming work.
It’s going to be a thriller called The Reluctant Fundamentalist and will be set in Lahore, Chile and New York.
Mira had been angling for the filming rights of Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid’s novel by this name for some time now. The deal has finally come through. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is about the impact 9/11 had on the life of a young Pakistani Muslim in New York and requires an intense Muslim actor to play the protagonist, Changez, who can express bitterness, rage and acceptance within the same script-zone.
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