Have been a little busy, but took some time out last evening to watch the Karan Johar produced Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor starrer 'Kurbaan'. Well, Karan Johar is coming of age, he has moved on from the bubble gum yuppie genre to a more thinking person's world. He tackles the complex story of terrorism post 9/11 and as perceived by the Muslim junta. The Muslims see USA as a big bully ready to go to any means to usurp the oil from the Middle East and of course we all know their short sighted military strategies which have resulted in the Talibanization of Afghanistan and the subsequent fall outs in the Af-Pak region. Not only have these military strategies blown up in their own faces but have destroyed lakhs of innocents. When the common man is angered and feels frustrated wanting to lash out at someone for destroying his small world, the merceneries are waiting to obligingly hand over an AK 47 and such also thanks to the arms lobbies of the West. This monster unleashed by the lopsided political dimwits across the globe is now about to bite their own ass and the governments have realized that they have stepped on a cobra's tail but have no clue as how to grasp its head.
A movie with some finely etched performances which leaves you feeling sad - sad for the people caught in this madness, sad for the innocents who are mauled and pulled apart for no reason other than greed, sad for a world that has become a place where you look at your neighbour with suspicion and a friend with reticence - after all who knows what he/she is involved in, sad that so few people can be responsible for the destruction of so many. Though terrorism cannot be condoned at any cost, is Islamophobia the only solution? How have we managed to destroy the very fabric of humanity and the civilized world? Two professors who get into this tangle because one of the spouses is aligned with Islamist extremism, a journalist who tries to find retribution all in a setting which is so normal and common place is what makes this movie so believable. Vivek Oberoi and Om Puri add to the high grade performances, the story is told in a matter-of-fact manner with no melodrama, the realism is hard hitting and also scary, Avantika can be anybody we know, and so for that matter does Ehsaan Khan.
Don't miss this movie, do catch it, it is one of the better movies of 2009.
I am off to a music concert on Thursday night...well, more on that later....
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