Hassan has a preternatural ability to predict where loose kites will land as well as deadly aim with his slingshot, and on Hassan's birthday, Amir gifts Hassan a slingshot made in the United States.Īmir enters the citywide kite-fighting contest, where he breaks his father's record of 14 'kills', and Hassan sprints off to 'run' for the last defeated kite. Amir participates in kite fighting, and Hassan serves as Amir's spool-holder and 'kite runner'. Amir's best friend Hassan is the son of Baba's longtime servant, Ali, a Hazara. In 1978 in Kabul, 10-year-old Amir is the son of a wealthy Pashtun philanthropist and iconoclast, known locally by the honorific title Agha Sahib, whom Amir refers to as 'Baba', meaning 'father'. Arriving home, Amir receives a call from his father's old friend and business associate, Rahim Khan, who lives in Peshawar, Pakistan. In San Francisco in 2000, Afghan-American writer Amir Qadiri and his wife Soraya watch children flying kites at a bayside park. ( February 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. The film's score by Alberto Iglesias was nominated for Best Original Score at the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007. Made on a budget of $20 million, the film earned $73.2 million worldwide. The controversial scenes also resulted in the film being banned from cinemas and distribution in Afghanistan itself. However, after concern for the safety of the young actors in the film due to fears of violent reprisals to the sexual nature of some scenes in which they appear, its release date was pushed back six weeks to December 14, 2007. Filming wrapped up on December 21, 2006, and the film was expected to be released on November 2, 2007. The child actors are native speakers, but several adult actors had to learn Dari. The majority of the film's dialogue is in Dari Persian, with the remainder spoken in English and a few short scenes in Pashto and Urdu. Though most of the film is set in Afghanistan, these parts were mostly shot in Kashgar in Xinjiang, China, due to the dangers of filming in Afghanistan at the time. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet military intervention, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime. It tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan. The Kite Runner is a 2007 American drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Benioff and based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini.

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