An identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish.An identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish.An identity crisis comedy centred on Mahmud Nasir, successful business owner, and salt of the earth East End Muslim who discovers that he's adopted - and Jewish.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
James Krishna Floyd
- Gary Page
- (as James Floyd)
Ravin J. Ganatra
- Fahad
- (as Ravin Ganatra)
Chris Wilson
- Security Guard
- (as Karl Wilson)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDavid Baddiel: The movie's writer can be seen on the TV show The Wright Stuff (2000), which Mahmud watches.
- GoofsAfter Mahmud sees that Lenny has parked his taxi cab on his parking cones, he begins to walk over to Lenny's house to confront him about it. On the way, he walks past a car and the camera crew is reflected in its side.
- Quotes
[Mahmud tells Lenny his real name]
Lenny Goldberg: Solly Shimshillewitz? Why didn't they just call you "Jewe-jew-jew-jew-jew" and be done with it?
- Alternate versionsMahmud's road-rage scene from the outset has been sound-dubbed for strong language (UK video version), with the C-word being uttered only once. In the UK cinema print, Mahmud shouts the C-word many times towards the taxi driver.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Breakfast: Episode dated 6 April 2010 (2010)
- SoundtracksClose Your Eyes
Performed by Joel Freedman
Written by David Gavurin & Harriet Wheeler
Produced by Howie B.
Engineered by Ben Thackeray'
Published by Warner Chappell Music Limited
Featured review
Excellent story, intelligent and sensitive acting, and absolutely hilarious
I rented The Infidel about 3 hours ago on pay-per-view being expecting a good but misfiring comedy about Jews and Muslims with some fairly obvious humour. However the as ever excellent Omid Jahlili (apologies for any misspellings), and Richard Schiff were the 'odd couple' of this really charming and heart-felt tale which was at times heart-stoppingly funny largely because of the deadpan delivery and wry observational comedy of the two principles. Richard Schiff teachng Omid to say 'oy' before moving on to 'vey' was so funny, but the real heart of the film was the telling of how fragile the racism of religion is and how based it is on misunderstanding, grandstanding, ego and attempting to 'secure the place in one's own community'. If it has a message it's that everyone is prey to their own culture's prejudices even when those prejudices are based on sometimes almost commicaly absurd rubbish,. A true classic. And a perfect selection of leading men.
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- Sep 3, 2010
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $2,817,080
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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