Takethispunch Avantika Ahuja (Kareena Kapoor), an academic living in the United States, returns to Delhi after her father falls ill. While in India she meets Ehsaan Khan (Saif Ali Khan), a University professor from Mumbai; and the two become friends and soon fall in love. After some time, Avantika must return back to work. Ehsaan readily agrees to emmigrate for her, and the couple are soon married and living in America. Avantika helps Ehsaan in getting a job, and he is appointed as a professor to teach 'Islam and the Modern World' at the same university where she works. The pair live a happy life in a quiet suburb populated by many South Asian families.

Avinash Patalay "New York" & "Kurbaan".... seems like there was a race between the buddies Adi & KJo. The similarities are aplenty and let me not go there on a listing spree. Having accredited and acclaimed for one of the finest screenplay in "Rang De Basanti", expectations are bound to run high from Rensil D'Silva. Paradoxically in "Kurbaan" the screenplay turns out to the weakest link, owing to which the Titanic starts going down under with each passing reel. The DOP also needs to share the blame for giving it a feel of suspense thriller/ whodunit at unwarranted places.° Saif Ali Khan: The character seems to be a direct lift from "Fanaa". He puts up a strong performance however the the fallacies in the movie overshadow his effort. The smooth talking professor/ love story did not quite gel well.° Kareena Kapoor: "Love is blind, marriage restores sight" is an apt phrase to describe her character. Avantika appears to be either an emotional fool or fickle-minded. Poor writing indeed.° Vivek Oberoi: Not quite there.° Om Puri: The fundamentalist part of the character is straight lift from "Shoot on Sight". However he seems to be having a streak of poor/ impulsive planner.° Kiron Kher: Get the diction spot on and everything good ends there.° Nauheed Cyrusi & Dia Mirza barely had few scenes. ° Khulbushan Kharbanda's character was unwarranted. Coming from the house of KJo music is generally one of the strong points and therefore a few songs are quite good. There are too many coincidences/ cinematic liberties in the movie. Coming to the premise, the writing of KJo attempts to give a balanced view of both sides of the coin. Sadly the research is inadequate and can be aptly termed as school homework. The writing hardly manages to touch a layer or two at the most. The planning/ plotting/ execution - if the actual terrorists would watch "Kurbaan", they would fall of their chairs and die laughing.

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?

Halle Cole I think all of you insulting Kurbaan are jokers! Kareena and Saif made an effort to act a movie, calling them names is ridiculous! Fine the film might not be something you like but thrashing the movie is really annoying. Give ppl a chance to watch the film and make their own opinions...Kareena Kapoor acted really well in the movie.Saif was good so was Vivek.I have not watched New York but I did see Fanaa and I liked it and I am not even Indian but I appreciate the fact that people try to make films to entertain us. I admit the terrorism part may affect some people but lets get real thats what happens in the world today so guys put a sock in it! There are some really good muslims out there in the world so I do not generalise when I watch films like this.Overall good movie and Kareena sizzled and I am a SAFEENA Fan!