Last Friday I went to watch the movie ‘NewYork’. It’s a movie directed by Kabeer khan based on the events which followed the WTC twin tower attack in US. Though it’s been long since the incident took place and the culprits of the heinous crime have been brought to book long back, when you watch the movie you get to realise that the subject touched in the movie is actually something which is much more contemporary than the incident of twin tower collapse. The movie actually deals with the lives of three friends in the aftermath of the 9/11 incident and hence shows how people can be forced to change their ideology because of something they had nothing to do in the first place.
There have been many movies made on the 9/11 attack in US. Most of them dealt with the people who were directly involved with the incident. But there were some movies, like ‘Khuda ke liye’( a Pakistani movie, highly acclaimed by people and critics as well), ‘yuhota to kya hota’, etc which dealt with the lives of the people who were not linked to the attack but were the victims of the tragedy directly, as most of the movies showed how a close relative of the main characters died in the incident and so on. But NewYork is a bit different. It shows the indirect effect on some of the people, who are Americans, who live in America, but still get swooped into the cyclone which starts after the incident, just because they are Muslims. It forces them to turn into something they never wanted and imagined to be, just to take revenge of the injustice meted out to them.
Overall the movie is a good package. You enjoy the first half because of the bubbly character of Katrina Kaif and the fresh looks of Neil Nitin Mukesh. Second half is dominated by John Abraham. All the actors are good and have done justice to their roles. Irfan Khan is, as usual, superb in his role of an FBI officer. His effortless, still impeccable, dialogue delivery is worth watching. Katrina has matured in her acting skills. Neil is like a fresh breeze in the movie and looks no less than a Hollywood actor with his brown stubbles. Overall everyone has good amount of screen presence and they have done their job well.
But the part in the movie which I did not like was its end. The end was the saddest way an anti-climax can be written by a script writer. Looks like director felt that now it’s two and half hour, lets wrap it up. And in an abrupt manner, the movie ends, leaving many questions unanswered.
But I never expect every Hindi movie to be as good as ‘A Wednesday’. You have to give them some leeway. Overall I would say it’s a “Paisa-Wasool” movie. You can definitely spend three hours and 150 bucks without regretting it later.