Acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' is based on a novel of the same name by Mohsin Hamid, and stars Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in the pivotal roles. Shabana Azmi and Om Puri will also be seen in the film. The film is about the meteoric rise and fall of a Pakistani migrant in the US. It shows a young man chasing corporate success on Wall Street and struggling between his American dream, a hostage crisis and the enduring call of his family's homeland.
Filmmaker Mira Nair joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on her movie 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'.
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06:24 PM, May 17, 2013
Lahore: A serving judge has been named by a Pakistani court to probe the murder of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died earlier this month after being assaulted within the Kot Lakhpat Jail here. Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial appointed Justice Syed Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi to investigate the matter and submit a report to the court. However, no deadline has been given to Naqvi...
04:48 PM, May 17, 2013
Lahore: Over 1,400 prisoners went on hunger strike at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore on Wednesday where Indian national Sarabjit Singh was killed, to protest against the hostile attitude of the prison staff. The prisoners refused to have breakfast or lunch, sources said. Senior jail officials were trying to persuade them to end the strike. Jail superintendent Kamran Anjum, however, denied that prisoners had gone on strike. "Some prisoners have...
05:41 PM, May 15, 2013
Islamabad: Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, polling began in Pakistan on Saturday amidst threats of violence, pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation. The vote marks the first time in Pakistan's 65-year history that a civilian government has completed its full term and handed over power in democratic elections. Previous...
07:24 AM, May 11, 2013
Lahore: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan will not be able to vote in Saturday's historic general elections because of injuries sustained in a dramatic fall at an election rally, doctors treating him said on Thursday. Doctors at Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore, where Khan, 60, was admitted after he suffered fractured vertebrae and a broken rib on Tuesday, said he needs to stay in bed for some more time....
05:51 PM, May 09, 2013
Lahore: As Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan continues to remain hospitalised after falling off a forklift that was raising him and three bodyguards to a stage in Lahore on Tuesday, supporters have been gathering outside the hospital with flowers and posters to show support to the cricketer-turned-politician. Meanwhile, doctors have refuted reports that Khan's skull was fractured in the incident and have said that he is expected to soon...
09:39 AM, May 09, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan has been declared out of danger. Imran Khan fell off his stage at an election rally in Lahore on Tuesday evening, causing him to suffer grievous head injuries. He was immediately rushed to hospital where he was administered 12 stitches. Imran Khan was being lifted up on a forklift to a 20-foot high stage when he fell off it. The cricketer-turned-politician is now...
10:13 AM, May 08, 2013
Lahore: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan suffered a severe head injury after falling off a lift that was taking him up to a 14-feet high stage at an election rally in Lahore on Tuesday evening. Two of Imran's supporters were also injured in the fall. Imran Khan was immediately rushed to a hospital and his close aides said he had regained consciousness and would require a few stitches. Pakistan...
08:10 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Twenty out of 36 Indian prisoners lodged in Lahore's infamous Kot Lakhpat Jail, where Sarabjit Singh was fatally attacked, have lost their mental balance and not been taken to any hospital for proper medical care, an India-Pakistan judicial panel has found. The India-Pakistan Judicial Committee on Prisoners, which visited Pakistani jails in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore last week, has found that 20 prisoners in Kot Lakhpat jail, two...
06:35 PM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) MPs on Friday met President Pranab Mukherjee over Chinese incursion in Ladakh. The MPs also took up with the president the manner in which the Sarabjit Singh issue was handled by the government. The delegation, led by senior leader and NDA working chairperson LK Advani, also submitted a memorandum seeking the president's intervention on both the issues. They demanded that Mukherjee discuss these issues...
05:12 AM, May 04, 2013
Lahore: A week after Indian national Sarabjit Singh was fatally attacked within a Pakistani jail, authorities on Friday suspended three senior prison officials over the incident. The Home Secretary of Punjab province suspended the three officials from service for alleged negligence that led to the brutal attack on Sarabjit within Kot Lakhpat Jail. The three officials are Kot Lakhpat Jail Superintendent Mohsin Rafique, Additional Superintendent Ishtiaq Gill and Deputy Superintendent...
01:40 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Seeking to blunt BJP critcism of "inaction" by UPA government in Sarabit Singh case, the Congress on Friday released a paper documenting actions taken by the government in the matter and accused NDA of "never raising the issue" when the Opposition alliance was in power. The three-page document released by AICC said "it started in 1990. Sarabjit was in jail all through NDA rule but never did the...
10:26 PM, May 03, 2013
Jammu: The BJP on Friday demanded compensation of Rs 25 lakh for the family of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh who was attacked and beaten to death by inmates in a Pakistani jail and said, he should be granted the status of a martyr. "A compensation of Rs 25 lakh has been demanded for the family members of Chamel Singh who died in Kot Lakhpat Jail on January 15 this year...
08:46 PM, May 03, 2013
Bhikhiwind: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday paid rich tributes to Sarabjit Singh, who died at a Pakistani hospital following a brutal attack, in Bhikhiwind at his cremation in native village. Rahul stayed with the aggrieved family for about half an hour and offered condolences to Dalbir Kaur, sister of Sarabjit Singh, party sources said. The Congress leader assured full support to the family, they added. State Congress chief...
07:19 PM, May 03, 2013
Amritsar: Doctors at the Amritsar Government Medical College who conducted the second autopsy on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh revealed that his vital organs - stomach, heart, kidneys and gall bladder - were missing in his body. "The following viscera was not present in the body of Sarabjit Singh, namely, stomach, gall bladder, heart and kidneys," the doctors told mediapersons, adding that the other viscera present in the body had been...
04:59 PM, May 03, 2013
Bhikhiwind: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was cremated on Friday with full state honours at his village in Bhikhiwind near Amritsar amidst heavy presence of politicians. Among those present at the funeral were Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. The Punjab government had announced a financial assistance of Rs 1 crore for the family of Sarabjit and declared a...
02:38 PM, May 03, 2013
Bhikhiwind: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died in Pakistan on Thursday, after being attacked in a Lahore jail last week, will be cremated with full state honours in village Bhikhiwind on Friday. Grieving his death, his sister Dalbir Kaur called for snapping all ties with Pakistan. "India must give a suitable response and snap all entertainment, sporting and trade ties. There should be no dialogue with Pakistan," Dalbir Kaur said....
10:18 AM, May 03, 2013
Lahore: Pakistan continues to maintain that there was no conspiracy involved in the attack on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in the Kot Lakhpat Jail. Najam Sethi, the caretaker Chief Minister of Pakistan's Punjab, spoke to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar and said, "The jail authorities and administration were not expecting anything like this. There was not even a hint that such a threat might be posed. We were more worried about terrorism...
08:43 AM, May 03, 2013
Amritsar: The funeral of Sarabjit Singh will take place on Friday at his village in Bhikhiwind near Amrtisar. The last rites are likely to begin in the afternoon. Sarabjit's body reached his home at night via a special government plane after another post-mortem was conducted at an Amritsar hospital. Sarabjit's body was airlifted to his village and sent to Government Hospital at Patti where a team of six doctors of...
07:54 AM, May 03, 2013
Kolkata: Angry protestors in Kolkata on Thursday burnt effigies of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, while torch rallies were held as a mark of respect to Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh who died after a brutal assault in a Pakistan jail. In central Kolkata, Congress workers held a rally outside the Tea Board office, demanding the perpetrators of the barbaric attack on Sarabjit be brought to justice. "Why did Sarabjit Singh...
04:38 AM, May 03, 2013
