Just watched ‘New York’ the latest offering from Yash Raj films from director Kabir Khan.  Being a person who selectively watches 2-3 bollywood movies a year this one was a BIG mistake.  This movie can be safely taken as a case study to prove that you cannot take serious humanitarian concern wrap it up in short skirts, muscles, hair gel and mirch masala and claim to have made serious films. Maybe if those detention centers still exist they would be screening this movie as the latest form of torture.

• A student (Neil Nitin Mukesh) who studies in New York State University for his masters is driving a cab in the US after 7 years. Could give a heart attack to the Indian students who are currently studying in the US.
• FBI agents who conduct interrogation in Hindi.
• Indian parents who have a kid who look absolutely phoren.
• John Abraham who is a US citizen spends 9 months in detention and what does he do? No, he doesn’t take the govt’al agency to court instead he becomes terrorist.
• After 9 months torture in detention, John can’t walk can’t hold a job can’t sleep properly but finds the time and energy to get his wife Maya (Kats) pregnant. Wowww….
• The Feds shoot John for being a terrorist and Kats for ….. God only know what.
• Joy, Sadness, Surprise, Anger, Love are all portrayed on Johns and Kats face via the same expression. Forget acting how weird would that look in real life.
• You get body frisked and your baggage checked but the plastic explosives, detonators and mobile phones mysteriously get into the building no questions asked.
• Kids in college watching 9/11 on TV and all Kats can say is… “Its awful”.
• They expect Indians to love the scene where John races a firangi to hoist the american flag and blows a kiss at it and thumps his chest.

Think Im too traumatized to write any further. Go ahead watch it

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