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Finally a Bollywood blockbuster in the theatres after so long. It’s called New York. It’s directed by Kabir Khan, whose film was Kabul Express. Now that movie had simultaneously informed, irritated and amused its audiences.
Something that is rare in hardcore Bollywood. Khan’s follow-up New York again manages to intelligently entertain, which is the first thing you may notice about the mainstream film.
It’s set in the backdrop or actually the front-stage of a post 9/11 New York. It concerns two young boys of indian origin, Muslims by birth. And a girlfriend, that’s Katrina Kaif. The three haven’t been touch since college since college and September 11, 2001, a date that changed the world and their lives.
Many years later, we find out that John’s character Sameer, a super-intelligent and athletic American guy, is married to Katrina’s Maya and also has a kid. Neil Nitin Mukesh Umar is under interrogation by the FBI. It is suspected that Sameer now runs a sleeper terrorist-cell in New York City. The FBI would like to plant Usman as its cover-agent to unearth the terror network. There is no relationship between this and the conspiracy theory film Arlington road. If anything New York is infinitely better.
Quite clearly these are career-defining roles for the central actors. And I say this because these aren’t quite the world’s best actors either, and they vaguely surprise you with such sincere performances. No surprise with Irrfan Khan of course. He plays the FBI sleuth with a swagger that could remind you of Al Pacino, no less.
The film shows how the persecution of Muslims after 9-11 was real, even if the persecution complex thereafter was an exaggeration. It’s a fairly balanced view on a subject that is easy to get rhetorical about. And we still watch a story unfold with all the masala and drama that you’d associate with commercial cinema.
It’s the sort of films that take Bollywood forward. And also one of those rare films where the picture is so much better than a fairly misleading promo. Thankfully an A-list film that gets a straight A after long.
Source:ndtvmovies
