`THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST' Films Scenes with Kate Hudson, Riz Ahmed
The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Mohsin Hamid, published in 2007. The novel uses the technique of a frame story, which takes place during the course of a single evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe, where a bearded Pakistani man called Changez (the Urdu name for Genghis) tells a nervous American stranger about his love affair with an American woman, and his eventual abandonment of America.
Changez, a Princeton graduate from Pakistan, succeeds on Wall Street, thriving in his adopted city. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned and his relationships tested. His involvement with pro-Pakistan demonstrations are called into question as is his connection to a possibly extremist student. After another attack, Changez's link to the student implicates him indirectly to the group responsible.
A thriller unfolds as Changez is forced to choose - a country, a way of life, where he belongs.
Indian born Director, Mira Nair, known for previous films `Monsoon Wedding' and `Amelia' is shooting the movie adaptation of the film which stars actress Kate Hudson, Actors Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber and Riz Ahmedshot on location in Atlanta, New York, Lahore, Delhi and Istanbul.
Cast and crew prepared for their scenes while at Elliott Street Deli and Pub in Atlanta, Wednesday night, October 5, 2011. Kate Hudson also brought along fiance Matthew Bellamy of the British rock group, MUSE, and son Ryder Robinson.