| | Producer | Aditya Chopra, Yash Chopra | | Director | Kabir Khan | | Music | Pritam | | Writer | Aditya Chopra | | Lyrics | Sandeep Shrivastava | | Release Date | 26-Jun-2009 |
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Cast
John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irfaan Khan
Movie Report
New York directed by Kabir Khan is no doubt the finest film produced by premier production house, Yash Raj. The film attempts to be as real as possible. The film has a story of friendship with act of terrorism.
The film opens with Indian Immigrant Omar (Neil Nithin Mukesh) fed-up with turmoils once he's dragged into an interrogation by FBI Agents as a suspect. As an Indian Officer Roshan (Irrfan Khan) starts off shooting out questions regarding his college days, things swap back to the colorful-paradise like New York Campus. Omar makes his first time visit to New York for his studies and gradually comes across campus hero Sam aka Sameer (John Abraham) and red-hot Maaya (Katrina Kaif). Omar draws great likeliness for Maaya and get bound to letdowns. Well, Maaya is in love with Sam and Omar backs off with a pre-determined thought of not meeting them again.
But then, in the interrogation he's blown out of waters once the officer reveals - Sam is a terrorist now. With no options left, Omar is pushed to live with Maaya and Sam as a FBI undercover agent. Now it's his turn of posting the FBI Agents with Sam's every move and of course stop his mission indeed.
Rest of the film is about a bonding state of emotions, friendship and heart-breaking climax with finest conclusion.
Director Kabir Khan picks up a real incident -- innocent civilians being suspected as terrorists, soon after 9/11 -- and weaves a brilliant tale around it. The screenplay is its biggest star, without a doubt. Given the fact that NEW YORK isn't one of those routine masala fares, Kabir has injected songs only when required. Cinematography is striking.
Performance wise, Neil Nithin Mukesh is mind blowing. He has shown right emotions and gestures to ever situation in this film. Irrfan has done a tremendous job. His role is brilliant. Katrina Kaif has done a good job. John Abraham is likeable. His performance is much better than the previous films.
On the whole, New York comes under one of the best films of bollywood. Although there are some twists in the film during post intermission yet the climax of the film is gripping.
