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Yes, Khan is humiliated by every type of law enforcement. But that's not what happens in the film itself. The trailer for "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" shows post-9/11 America as a land of war, triumphalism, and bigotry. After a long business day in Southeast Asia, Khan sits in a dark, quiet hotel room. Including some unnecessary coincidences, we have seen this first act before in many other movies. Khan outshines his colleagues with a combination of aggression and brilliance. He seizes a major corporate job under the stern tutelage of Jim Cross ( Kiefer Sutherland). He stumbles into love with sullen artist Erica ( Kate Hudson), coping with the loss of her previous boyfriend. A poor immigrant from a colorful family abandons his roots to dive head first into the American Dream. The first part of his biography is all too familiar. The choice seems odd, considering that a man's life is in danger. Lincoln thinks he might have some answers, but Khan insists on telling his own life story first. Khan, who has long since abandoned his clean-shaven face and American business suit for a beard and traditional Shalvar-Kameez, is now the leader of a questionable Pakistani activist movement. A local American professor has just been kidnapped. Quite bulky for a journalist, with something strange in his posture, Lincoln seems out of place. He narrates his story, seen in flashback, while meeting in the Pak Tea House in Lahore with American journalist Bobby Lincoln ( Liev Schreiber). And he accomplishes much before the planes hit the World Trade Center, a crisis that challenges his materialism, leading him to step back from the many choices he's made, in his capitalist career and his love life.

Mira Nair 's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" follows the transformations of the wide-eyed Pakistani Changez Khan ( Riz Ahmed), who arrives in the US with great professional ambitions.