flips Ji,
yes i finished reading the book only a few weeks back although i had been wanting to read it for a long time but then oh well time constraint and all and i am not so voracious reader either.

 the 3 stars was actually given relative to the excellence of the novel. i might have been a little too stringent on rating and stuffs, but that's me . compared to other adapted plots like those of da vinci code or lord of the rings, i think the plot of the kite runner was more suited for better adaptation into a movie and they have done a fine job.

of course, you don't go through all the different kinds of emotional rides while watching a 1.5-2 hrs movie of a masterpiece novel than when actually reading the novel itself no matter how good the adaptation is. tetti matra ho.

sn di,
true that! movie making and story writing are two different formats/forms of art. to be fair, i honestly feel that they should not be juxtaposed. no two forms of art deserves to be compared. but then when a story that was once the bestseller  is captured in celluloid in accordance to the vision of a handful of people, comparison is inevitable.

haha...and yeah sum-off's stories are worth an adaptation. i hope he writes a long enough story one day and then they might go about adapting it . short stories should not be risked of going thorough adaptation unless they are ready to be treated like 'saawariya' by the vigilant audience


Bob Marley,
you are almost completely right. yes, hazaras are of mongolian origin. they are believed to be the descendants of the armies and settlers of Genghiz Khan's mongolians. they are predominantly shia muslims not suni though...
there are many online references you can go through to brush up on the history of Afghanistan if you want to. there are not whole lot of things to be understood before going for the movie..