• Friday, November 20, 2009

• Country:

  India

• Language:

  Hindi

2009

In Kurbaan movie (Kareena Kapoor) Avantika act as  a teacher in a university in Delhi. She has come back from New York where she teaches, because her father has suffered a heart attack. During this period, she meets a temporary Professor called (Saif Ali Khan) Ehsaan Khan. Soon they begin seeing each other love blossoms. A few months later, Avantika receives a call from her university in New York, asking her to come back for the Fall Semister. Avantika breaks the news to Ehsaan.

Kurbaan  is the story revolves around the character of (Saif Ali Khan) Ehsaan. He in turn, tells her he doesn’t mind coming to the States with her, to find a job. But first they need to get married. Soon after the marriage, they leave to start a new life in New York. They buy a house in an Indian neighbourhood and move in. Just as they are setting up home, their conservative Muslim neighbours, Hamid and Anjum, invite them over for dinner. The next morning, Salma, one of the women Avantika met the night before at the dinner, visits her under the pretext of gifting her. When Avantika invites her in, Salma tells her that she is in grave danger in kurbaan.

Nothing is what it seems. Salma pleads with Avantika to help her. What follows next, is a series of incidents that sucks Avantika into a  vortex of danger and intrigue. As her life spirals out of control in kurbaan movie Avantika realizes that she is a pawn in a huge game. And no one is to be trusted.

Maxabout Review

Social Love Story

Kurbaan starts as a love story, swiftly changes identity to a social film and keeps the viewer engaged throughout with its thriller treatment. Sensibly the romance is kept short and succinct without losing out on the chemistry of the characters. Once the terrorist activity comes to forefront, the love story is fittingly given a backseat as the story intends to highlight and discuss serious issues related to global terrorism. And while dealing with dignified social concerns, the film doesn't compromise on entertainment by adapting a thrilling story-telling technique.
 
Ehsaan Khan (Saif Ali Khan ) is a smooth-talking, handsome professor who walks into fellow professor Avantika Ahuja's (Kareena Kapoor ) life and takes over her world. He seems to be in a tearing hurry to bed her and father her children, but she is too much in love to notice or analyse, and they are soon busy building their love nest in an Asian neighbourhood in New York. Avantika's world comes crashing down when she accidentally runs into her neighbour's dead body and eavesdrops into a terror conspiracy. What happens after that is what the film is all about.
 
Saif Ali Khan has always been very good whenever he has gone wicked and here as well he comes up triumphs in a grey role. The way he changes his body language and facial expressions from a charming romantic to a cold blooded terrorist is just superb. Kareena Kapoor proves yet again why she is considered a top rated actress today. However, in many emotional sequences she appears very similar in her act to her elder sister, Karisma. After a really very long time Vivek Oberoi leaves you extremely impressed. His mature act is bound to win him many accolades and awards for sure. Om Puri as the terrorist sleeper cell head is very good. Kirron Kher after a long time gets a non-Punjabi mom role and she is has delivered one of her career best performance in this one. Dia Mirza and Nauheed Cyrusi leave you impressed despite their short roles.

Technically the film is proficient in all departments. Salim-Sulaiman's background score with Arabic overtones to it enhances each scene. The soundtrack is soulful with justifiably no lip-sync songs, which work efficiently in the background. Hemant Chaturvedi's cinematography is competent and at no point overpowers the story. The plane crash sequence is credibly executed while the bombing action sequence in the climax has intensity. It seems like there is nothing new to the movie where a nice educated person eventually is the terrorist in the film, parts of which we all have seen in Fanaa, Aamir, New York.

Taglines

• Some Love Stories have Blood on them

Trivias

• Minisha Lamba refused to do a kissing scene with Vivek Oberoi for the movie Jehaad. This didn't go down well with the director and he spoke to the production house to have her replaced. Dia Mirza stepped in subsequently in kurbaan.
• While the news of the swine flu in and around US broke out, it caused panic in the minds of residents in the States. While many people travelled away from affected pockets, people travelling to America cancelled their plans. However, the shooting of Karan Johar's Jeehad directed by debutant Rensil D'Silva continued uninterrupted. The cast and crew of kubaan also finished a major sequence at the Brooklyn Bridge, for which traffic was halted for a few hours to complete the shoot of kurbaan.