Kurbaan

High time, wake up!!! Movies are not meant only for entertainment. This is not a romantic movie by any standards. Its a serious and a dark movie. A sincere requests to the viwers- everyone knows it has a power packed star cast, but kindly dont expect everyone to be outstanding. Please try and understand, every character in certain plot has its limit, it cant go overboard on the script.

Watch the movie not for the actors, nor for the entertainmet. Watch it for the theme of it. All the performances were awesome and Kiron Kher was outstanding. The story doesnt lag anywhere or move off the track.A very balanced movie. Sure to leave an impact in someway or the other.


Plot:


There is a Hindu damsel(Avantika) who is a proffessor in a university of New York and has come to India for her father and meanwhile workin as a proffessor again in India. She meets Ehsaan (Saif), who also happens to be a proffessor in the same university in India. The love story starts brimming between the two. Avantika's father is reluctant for the wedding of the duo due to community differences. But Ehsaan manages to persure Avantika's dad, and they together shift to New York sacrificing his job for Avantika.

The now married couple shift to a new house in an Indian locality in New York and Ehsaan takes up a job as a proffessor in the same university as Avantika's. This is where from the problems begins. The locality in which they stay has a troop of Muslims who are planning somethin illegal and somethin really big against America. Avantika unintentionally gets involved in the matter and her life gets in danger. Now the twist in the movie is something which i would like you to go and watch out for. :)

Here from starts a series of terroist activities. Meanwhile one journalist couple is effected in the terrorist attacks. Rihanna(Diya Mirza) and Riyaaz(Vivek Oberoi). Rihanna dies in the attack and Riyaaz now is on a spree for a revenge. He takes up a private mission for this. He gets himself involved in the troop while Avantika pleads for help as she is in house arrest and is helpless to act as her father is taken care of in India.

Hereafter, the movie goes through many twists and turns. A game of trust, truth and tragedies. Every person is betrayed by the other. The hatred and the cause of it is portrayed really well. Songs are soothing in the background.

My take:

I was bound to think over the issue. In a 3 hour script, they tried covering a lot of aspects and leaves the rest for the viwers. The saga of hatred across and the wars is an endless process. I had a brief discussion with my companion on this post the movie. The more you go deeper, the more you realise the complications around the entire thing. Its never one single reason or one single notion.Its never god or religion only. Its neither money and power only. There are hundreds of small and bigger aspects in every individuals Journey which triggers the inhuman,savage nature(as he says) in a person. The end result is what we see through the media. I was touched.

My Rating: 3.5/5