Boys cast in Kite Runner are in safe location in UAE

Dec 05:  Kite Runner movie based on best seller novel of same name written by Khaled Hosseini is in news more for the controversies it has created than the film itself.

The hullaballoo created over a rape scene involving two of the rival tribes in Afghanistan. Though utmost care was taken to portray the scene but it is creating ethnic disturbances.

The cloud looming largely over the future of Afghan boys cast in the movie seems to have shifted for the time as the boys have been shifted to an unidentified location of United Arab of Emirates.

The producer of the film has delayed the release of the film by six weeks to assure the boy’s future.

Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, as Hassan, who belongs to a low caste member of Hazara tribe and Zekiria Ebrahimi as Amir, Hassan’s best friend belongs to Pashtun tribe in “The Kite Runner”.

The central theme of the movie is the rape scene in which Hassan is raped by the Pashtun boy watched by his best friend Amir, thereafter the incidence a deep deep silence crawl between them, it was a sheer betrayal of friendship in which a friend stood meekly watching the other friend being abused.

But the incident does not stop here it remain the focal point one friend Hassan lived throughout his life loyal to Amir the other friend Amir carried the burden of his weakness all through his life.

The Paramount Picture, the studio behind the film has taken all the necessary step to guarantee the boys safety.

Many of its experts were in view that it was an error on their part to cast local boys of Afghanistan without going deeper in the history of Afghanistan’s culture and relationship between the two major rival tribes Hazara and Pashtun.

Earlier the boys’ families have alleged that they were misled over the controversial rape scene before the film begun.

The movie slated to be released on December 14 is making news for the performance of boys, also it is a movie based on 2003 best seller written by Khaled Hosseini.

The movie reeled in and around the life in Afghanistan from Soviet invasion to the rise of Taliban and beyond.

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