A lot has been said and written about the movie New York. I know I am late, I got to watch New York three weeks after its release and that too, after three months of lockout on multiplexes. All of us know it’s a good movie, amazing story, direction, cinematography. Finally a good movie from Yash Raj productions after boring and disappointing audiences for two years.
I knew John could act and everyone gets better with experience. John fits the bill for intense roles. Remember Jism and its power packed dialogues, monosyllables. As always Irfan Khan was brilliant but somehow I am not convinced with the dialogues written for him. Neil Nitin Mukesh needs to work harder. He was very different from Johny Gaddaar.
I knew John could act and everyone gets better with experience. John fits the bill for intense roles. Remember Jism and its power packed dialogues, monosyllables. As always Irfan Khan was brilliant but somehow I am not convinced with the dialogues written for him. Neil Nitin Mukesh needs to work harder. He was very different from Johny Gaddaar.
Getting back to the issue of the terrorism and the way America has approached this issue. Irfan does tell about the magnanimity of the Americans, the American culture. No doubt, he was right about it. That’s why ‘Barack Hussain Obama’ is their President. But 9/11 also brought the shallowness, double-standards, diplomatic, hypocritic attitude of the Americans in the open. Bush always said, “we can and we always will are committed to fight terrorism and ensure no evil forces touch the American soil in future”. Inspite of the fact that USA may become the only country on this earth with living population.
Kabir Khan has wonderfully portrayed the shallowness and non-intelligence of American intelligence forces and offices. Anybody who would or could have taken the photographs of WTC was taken under suspicion. It seems they had implicated all the Muslims, who went on that street in past ten years and must have framed the person even if he was standing with his back to WTC.
Look at the way, Kabir disguised the full name of Sameer from the audience till interval. Sameer didn’t belong to a religion like most of us from our generation. Our generation belongs to a genre of ideas. Religion is a myth or a belief. Well that’s another long debate? Sameer was made to feel his religion, Muslim in that detention centre. Just before entering one, his name is revealed to the audience, “Sameer Sheikh”. Americans felt the threat in the name.
What they have done to protect America is very disappointing? Radicalizing the Islamism to its extreme, a person is not born terrorist from its mother’s womb. Its only the surroundings which make a human being. They have made them reach a point where only the true path is terrorism.
Kabir Khan has wonderfully portrayed the shallowness and non-intelligence of American intelligence forces and offices. Anybody who would or could have taken the photographs of WTC was taken under suspicion. It seems they had implicated all the Muslims, who went on that street in past ten years and must have framed the person even if he was standing with his back to WTC.
Look at the way, Kabir disguised the full name of Sameer from the audience till interval. Sameer didn’t belong to a religion like most of us from our generation. Our generation belongs to a genre of ideas. Religion is a myth or a belief. Well that’s another long debate? Sameer was made to feel his religion, Muslim in that detention centre. Just before entering one, his name is revealed to the audience, “Sameer Sheikh”. Americans felt the threat in the name.
What they have done to protect America is very disappointing? Radicalizing the Islamism to its extreme, a person is not born terrorist from its mother’s womb. Its only the surroundings which make a human being. They have made them reach a point where only the true path is terrorism.
Everywhere in the world there are mistakes to fight a menace like terrorism. I know I belong to Punjab and grew up during the years of intense terrorism in Punjab. There were mistakes, tortures, innocents became victims. But then the Govt. of Punjab and its law and order forces, that they have to uproot this menace from its underground level. At one time, police was killing more people in Punjab than terrorists. It was painful but then it was the ultimate strategy to restore peace in my homeland.
America (read Bush) acted like a smuggler in a suit. When you let lose the goons (read FBI) in the open market in the name of protecting yourself, that day you are harming yourself more than others can do to you. There have been articles when people were terrified to finding armed cops and agents around everywhere.
The most dramatic thing about movie ‘New York’ is that earlier when Sameer (John Abraham) had not done anything. He was caught and kept in detention centre for nine months. But when he was really planning to do something and FBI was sure of the fact. They could have caught him and could do anything. But don’t know why it was not. I guess then the movie could not be made.
America (read Bush) acted like a smuggler in a suit. When you let lose the goons (read FBI) in the open market in the name of protecting yourself, that day you are harming yourself more than others can do to you. There have been articles when people were terrified to finding armed cops and agents around everywhere.
The most dramatic thing about movie ‘New York’ is that earlier when Sameer (John Abraham) had not done anything. He was caught and kept in detention centre for nine months. But when he was really planning to do something and FBI was sure of the fact. They could have caught him and could do anything. But don’t know why it was not. I guess then the movie could not be made.
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