Drawing humour from humanitarian crisis
Sami Shah’s account of life amid and away from humanitarian crisis in Pakistan is, above all, an ode to comedy, writes Sonia Nair.
Sami Shah’s account of life amid and away from humanitarian crisis in Pakistan is, above all, an ode to comedy, writes Sonia Nair.
By Maya Borom. Mira Nair’s film adaptation of Pakistani author Moshin Hamid’s bookof the same name provides a delicate introspection into protagonist Changez’s (Riz Ahmed) struggle with his western consumerist driven identity and his eastern cultural, religious and familial background. This struggle is told as a first person narrative to investigative journalist Bobby Lincoln who […]