Reflections from the pensieve

Kurbaan: something you wouldn’t want to Kurbaan your money on

3 things why you shouldn’t watch Kurbaan

1. The movie should be called Fana in New York. If you have seen Fana and New York you know the entire script of the movie. I haven’t watched Shoot on Sight so I don’t know if the story gets some of its incline from that movie as well, then it would be called Shoot on Sight in New York while going Fana.
2. The movie is very slow, it has gone tooooooo much in detail when it didn’t require that much stuff, not at all a fast paced movie.
3. If you are going in for the chemistry between Saif and Kareena you are going to be disappointed. The story doesn’t demand chemistry after a while.

If you are thinking why I m being so sarcastic or being so pessimistic about the movie at the start of my critic itself it’s because I can’t forgive a movie which makes me sleep in between. I don’t know why after Fana and just recently released New York Karan Johar and Rensil had to come up with the same script. Anyways talking about the debutante Rensil who penned the script of Rang de he does a good job on the directors seat. Now here m not contradicting my above statements, the movie is good for a starter. I m trying to compare him with others like Anthony D’souza (Blue) who made a total disaster. Rensil though does do into minutest of minute detail in the movie but the scenes though connected take too long to establish as a real sequence (as one friend quoted “it’s a documentary”). Though he tried his best I would mention a few errors in the movie (that’s the best part J I like finding errors)

• There s this scene where Saif and his colleague try to dump a body when they are intercepted by the police, now the issue is the person is dead for some good number of days, they want it dispose it off coz its stinking, yet when the police fella intercepts them he doesn’t catch a sniff (maybe he had a cold) first mistake forgiven
• The second mistake follows after this, the police guy gets shot and Saif and his friend are chased by just 2 patrol vehicles. Crap, this is America on a shootout on police you will be swarmed by police (maybe some police fellas got stuck in a traffic or their radio shot off) second mistake forgiven
• Time for another mistake, in USA the security has been beefed up big time post 9/11 so if they have the picture of the terrorist with a talibani beard I don’t think their technology is that dumb that you can enter USA with a French beard foxing all authorities and technology
• The last scenes where there’s a bomb explosion the terrorist try to run before they get cordoned off when they explode themselves. If the prime idea was being a suicide bomber why run on being challenged.

Well the movie is good in small slots, some good dialogues like one scene when an American is of the opinion that all Muslims should leave their country Vivek Oberoi states first leave ours, gives out the message in a loud way, leads to a deep introspection why terrorism from a particular religion is rampant, and ofcourse the explosions in the end which look copy book Hollywood. The movie crawls mostly on all fronts suddenly picks up and then slooooooooowws down. It slows down to such an extent sometimes that you can go grab yourself a coffee, get fresh, have a small chit chat, take your own sweet time to be seated yet when you are back you know you haven’t missed anything.

In the end we were fretting singing the song of the movie itself “Kurbaan huaaaa” the only thing our song lacked was the sobs L

Ratings

Screenplay: looks copied errrr inspired

Direction: good for a debutante

Watch it????: (“AND” conditional operator to be used) if you haven’t watched any of the above movies AND if you have the patience of sitting for 3 hours even then think twice