Good first half ... Second part =copy of Newyork. Review on Kurbaan

“Terrorism” a hot topic which can easily burn anyone if not handled carefully is once again brought into plot in Bollywood with Kurbaan. With terror groups putting years of planning to come with most unthinkable ways of spreading terror we never know who can be what.

The first half of the movie is simply superb. The love story between two professors in Delhi university Avantika (Kareena Kapoor) and Ehsaan Khan (Saif Ali Khan) is shot is an elite way with eyes and emotions doing most of the talking. The onscreen chemistry is simply superb and shots without background score added spice to the scenes. The story moves in a fast pace and just half an hour since the start of the movie the couples get married and moves to US. Then comes the next set of characters, a creepy neighborhood all set to raise your heartbeats. In a well groomed scene Avantika figures out that her husband is a terrorist and there after she is put under house arrest.

All well till now, but now comes the second half when I felt the movie was very similar to “New York” in many ways which was a set back. Not just that the characters does not showcase the same level of intelligence through out the movie which make the audience feel, “ A terror group cannot be this stupid”. More over FBI is underestimated through out the movie. In one of the scene Saif kills a group of police men after a chase and escapes with a bullet shot leaving his vehicle burning and FBI is still clue less. Setting a terror plot in US cannot be this easy. In another scene FBI finds a dead body with a half burnt face and the officer says it is going to take 4 days for him to regenerate the burnt part and produce a graphic image of the victim. Come on this is the 21st century and even a beginner in photoshop can make the complete face in 10 mins.

In the end, Kurbaan has lots of loop holes which could have been patched with a little tweaking and some how the quality of the movie is not steady through out. I would recommend this movie for people who have not watched “New york” as for others the second half does not give much surprises.

The song Shukran Allah is a treat.