Re: Reluctant Fundamentalist – The Movie
it is going to be a REALLY dumb movie. They will shoot this in india, with indian actors playing pakistanis. When I first heard about ms. Nair buying rights to this a few years ago, I IMMEDIATELY knew it was going to be an absurd effort, shot in india.
The thing about shooting stuff in india, you have to deal with indian movie industry. It tends to get tainted, and the free and independent spirit takes a backseat. You have to do things their way, or your projects are sabotaged. This film is going to suck. The acting will be horrible. I just KNOW it.
edit: plus here’s how i know: I wrote the original script converting the book into a 120 minute film, and then wrote the second verison of it. Mira’s office actually opted out of the original story of the novel, and wanted to make it a love story. It’s been two years and i’ve had no further involvement with her company, but they brought in idiot “writers” from bollywood (people who don’t have a clue to the aesthetics of writing proper film scripts, and people who make movies as they shoot!). Chances are, that this will be an bolly/lolly style musical. Achaar daalain gay woh log, sadly.
O what a waste!! And pls MIra Nair is sooo over rated. She actually stole Sohail Sahib’s old song for her movie Monsoon wedding , without ever giving him any credit for that beautiful song sung on Shabnam & Nadeem ( cant remembr any names rite now, 2 in t/ morning!!) XCept Mississippi Masaalaa, everything is soo overrated and aftr DR Lulwrth’s acct. I’m even more dissapointed!