Two cents more to a ‘Good-to-watch’ movie, Yashraj Film’s New York takes up a contemporary theme and represents the devious ways of US FBI to interrogate several hundreds of Muslim people to pay a tribute to 9/11 twin-tower attack.
It starts with Omer (Niel Nitin Mukesh) who was college friend of Sameer a.k.a. Sam (John Abraham) and Maya (Katrina Kaif) being wrongly held captive by FBI for the transporting arms in his owned Taxi. In fact, it’s a well-planned game put in action by FBI mastermind Roshan (Irrfan Khan) and his American boss to convenience Omer to work as secret agent of FBI and to penetrate the personal life of Sam whom FBI suspects to be leading a terrorist activity group.
Somehow, Omer agrees to Roshan and takes on the job to discover to his relief that each of his attempt is failed to unveil Sam’s terror activities. Before taking interval break, you are presented with beautiful Katrina, Stunning John and cool Neil in the remembrance of their college days. The pre-popcorn story is well presented and keeps you constantly judging as to what will happen next. Then comes the shock and you eagerly await the post-popcorn part of the tale.
Then it becomes predictable and the story becomes somewhat mismatching with the pre-interval part. Nonetheless, there are several good sequences too which keeps your bums flat on the seats.
John has tried very well to rinse his “actor-with-little-expressions” image. Though, Sameer could have been more intense, effective and convincing if the role had been played by Aamir or Shah Rukh. Neil doesn’t dissatisfy and sometimes shines in the thorny parts. Irrfan is awesome and never misses any thumps in his dialogues. Katrina is in one of the best of her meatiest roles of her acting-career and adds elegance to each of the frames she’s in.
Story: 2.5/5
Dialogues: 3/5
Music: 2.5/5
Acting: 3/5
Direction: 3/5
Overall: 2.75/5 (Good-to-watch)
In one sentence: “In the long run, your path and actions rather than your cast or community is decisive in the improved countries like USA”
- Theatrical Trailer
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