Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

billyrose47 The film was not the only thing bad about this Bollywood bomb. Dharma Productions also failed to pay thousands of dollars to actors, vendors and even casting companies. They place the blame on The Swish Group whom they hired to handle the payroll for them. Swish went belly up and filed for bankruptcy. The Phila Teamsters got paid so that the production company could go to NY and finish and not be shut down by the Teamsters up there. In solidarity with American actors, they should have been shut down. In all fairness to the NY teamsters, they probably were unaware of it until it was over. A class action suit is still pending against them. I know since I was one of the actors stiffed by them. That was for work in Dec. of 2008. But the film itself was terrible on it's own merit. It wasn't worth the time I spent to to watch it or work on it.

Sherazade I was a little hesitant about watching it especially after all the assorted reviews I had read but I have to say though, the acting is top class (Kiron Kher was exceptionally good) and the movie itself is well paced(it comes to the point right away), where 'New York' was glitzy and somewhat sugar-coated for the audience, 'Kurbaan' is blunt, raw and shot (at least the first half of it) with an intelligent audience in mind.As a resident New Yorker very few things offended me in the film which more than I can say for most parts of Yash Raj's 'New York'. But just like 'New York' had John as the harrowing tragic anti-hero, 'Kurbaan' has Saif as its powerhouse take-no-prisoners male protagonist who has been wronged by society and is seeking revenge. In 'New York, you actually take pity on John Abraham's character whereas in 'Kurbaan' in spite of what were are told Saif's character went through, it's hard to feel sorry for him. However, most of the 'Kurbaan' scenarios are true to life (Yes! our JFK/NWK TSA would random search an innocent person while a suspicious one walks right by them, YES! it's possible for a sharp-shooting gun-man to take out 4 armed police officers who rather than call for back-up after witnessing one of their own get massacred try to play hero instead, YES! stranger things happen in our upstate cul-de-sac suburbs more than our inner cities etc. etc. you get the gist) Vivek Oberoi's character was the worst of the bunch in my opinion(second only to the horrible extras and their $2 acting) his roof-top-cop-like character was so poorly written that you would find yourself asking more questions than trying to reason with the decisions the character makes.While there are similarities between "New York' and 'Kurbaan', let it be known that they are two separate films to their own merits. Where 'Kurbaan' makes a mockery of the NY-FBI and NYPD, 'New York' was more lenient. Where 'New York' glossed it up with the tragically unsuspecting heroine (played by Katrina Kaif) 'Kurbaan' gives you Kareena Kapoor (a far superior actress any way you slice it) bare and broken. Which is the better movie? Well, it would depend of who you ask.Forget about the sex scene people, trust me you've seen raunchier (get over yourselves).One thing Bollywood directors/producers/writers need to do when shooting in a foreign locale is get the accents right, give the extras some credit and require them to act rather than behave like clueless idiots. It just never fails in Bollywood movies, you will always see weird stereotypes, hear weird accents in places where they shouldn't be and see over-blown scenarios etc. etc. DO YOUR RESEARCH. Somebody would have called the cops, a train would never roar out of the station during a police investigation, the neighbours would have suspected something, I could go on and on...

virindra The cover of the movie made me believe this movie could be the thriller of the year. I did not expect it would be a terrorist movie. Although the subject is daring, the movie was very slow. Cast was great, except Vivek Oberoi (great actor though). The biggest twist of the movie, that Saif was a terrorist also, came in the beginning. The rest of the movie wasn't worth watching.It is very clear that in most terrorist movies the Muslim culture is involved. It would be better if that would be taken care of, instead of making movies about it. But making a movie about it, makes people think about it as a subject that leads to discussion. In that fact the movie is very successful.On the other hand the terrorists are shown as monsters. It's like an overblown Nazi-movie where Hitler is a monster. Let not forget, even though terrorists or people who take other people's lives are crazy by putting their action in the hands of religion, they still are people. In that matter Saif Ali Khan gave us a great performance and the other men of the terrorist group gave me a cheap shiver.There is one thing I did not understand in the scene where Kareena Kapoor took the bullet out of Saif's chest; Why did Saif scream a moment later when the bullet was already taken out of his chest and not when Kareena was taking the bullet out?

Herag Halli Any film made from this banner, we are supposed to be in awe and admiration and as a viewer just blessed to see the latest offering. Not this viewer. This Banner has money to burn and money to throw away on Advertising, Foreign locations and Actors-just to lure the public into seeing a movie which is a piece of trash compared to the quality movies coming out of Mumbai and not to mention previously from this Production House. I wish they would have spent that money on a decent story and a competent story teller. Just because someone works with Karan Johar doesn't make him a good director. The talent has to be innate. The artistry is not acquired by osmosis. Here are few Gems from this Movie-We see culdesac of houses in what appears to be a suburb of New York-yet no trace of people or cars! No one hears a woman's scream!The infrared scenes are just a torture to watch. The story is a masala of few movies that have come out recently. The movie lacks a cohesion for the most part. The initial scenes between the the two lovers are just unreal and typical of a GenX director and the dialog rightly fits in with the concept too-penned by a an Autistic GenX. In the hands of a good director a half-baked-story could have turned out well, but in the hands of this director it remains half-baked and a disaster for this Production House. This director should go back to his day-job...As a Gaffer. How did this Imbecile tiffin boy from Goa, ever get to be a director in the first place. How does these morons with a IQ in double digits get to make a movie in Bollywood? We got too have some kind of Committee to screen these Directors and dialog writers before they make fools of themselves and the Indian Cinema.