The Kite Runner: the Book, the Movie

Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, commends the delayed release of the movie that is based on the book. It was delayed for six weeks so that Paramount Pictures can move three of the boys who star in the film and their families from socially conservative Afghanistan where they fear that the boys would be targeted due to a scene in the movie. In this scene one boy becomes a victim of a homosexual rape and his best friend witnesses it but does nothing to stop it.

I read The Kite Runner a couple of years ago and it is written in such a captivating and engrossing manner that makes you feel a part of the story in such a way that when it ends, it continues in your heart for a long time to come.

The movie is expected to debut on December 14th.