Movie Time : Newyork

Newyork : I couldn’t get Harry Potter tickets and as we were out in multiplex, we thought of trying Newyork. Another hidden reason to try this movie was that recently me and Shailja were in New york. Movie started with quite fast pace, some good camera moves and Hollywood action movie cuts helped this movie get more attention than we had reserved. And then movie started taking turns. Music was decent, background scores were good. Refreshing change was that there were no forced songs or item numbers or ‘need’ songs. ( Had it been KJ pic, he would have shown us few discs and clubs of NYC by interval for sure with SRK throwins his hands wide.) Till interval movie caught everyone’s attention. Script was nicely woven around turns. After interval, there were high expectations. But climax was total disappointment. Most of Indian movies fail here and this movie too didn’t prove exception. I don’t know but good and technically sound movies like Aks, RDB, Summer 2006 , they all had disaster endings. Its not about negative ending , but its illogical less-sensical ending which I am talking here.
Nevertheless, Kabir Khan deserve applauds for brilliant direction. Camera and scripts were major contributors for the success of this movie. After Kabul Express, this was his second main stream bollywood movie and he generates respect and attention. He in in my ‘to-watch’ directors list. Acting wise John, Irfan and Karina did good job but Neil Nitin Mukesh was the show stealer. He got looks and talent. Overall this movie can be seen in theatre.
This movie is about life of Muslims in US after 9/11 where lots of youth muslims were detained for no-reasons and kept in in-human conditions for long. There were few dialogues which were quite catchy , I liked this one “No one was wrong , its’ the time which was wrong and when time is wrong, people make wrong decisions, countries make wrong decisions.” Alas, people who are at the receiving ends of such wrong decisions are highly traumatized to take essence of this statement so sanely.