Earlier, there were talks that Mira Nair was hobnobbing with the idea of casting Ranbir Kapoor in her upcoming film <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em>. The latest is that Nair has ended all talks by deciding to cast Pakistan-born actor Riz Ahmed to play the protagonist in the above movie. Talking to us over the phone, the director explained, "For my film I did audition Ranbir Kapoor, but since the role demanded worldliness which I found in Riz Ahmed, I opted for him.”