Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi
Karan Johar attempts to tell another story much like the theme in his more successful My Name is Khan venture of the Western world's war against terrorism and the connection to Islamic extremists. Saif (Ehsaan) wins over the love of Kareena (Avantika) while they're teaching in the same college in Delhi. When Kareena decides to move back to New York, Ehsaan suggests they marry and move together. In New York they soon settle in making their home in an Indian neighborhood. Avantika and Ehsaan befriend their muslim neighbors whose women members Avantika observes are suppressed. One of these women pleads with Avantika for help and warns her of her own life endangered. Here the plot thickens. It turns out that Ehsaan and the neighboring trio of muslim men are in fact a terrorist sleeper cell planning a series of terror attacks in the US. The first attack blows up a passenger plane, among those dead, Vivek's (Riyaz) paramour. Riyaz a seasoned war journalist follows a lead to hunt the perpetrators and avenge his lover's death. Can Riyaz sabotage the other planned attacks, does Avantika escape the clutches of Ehsaan and the killers? The rest of the movie unfolds this story.
One does wonder why Avantika can't dial 911 in the first place before being captured by Ehsaan and co. or why Riyaz the war jouralist can't involve authorities in his effort to sniff out the killers, but must resort to very rudimentary sleuthing. I suppose this was intended to give the movie its 2 hour stretch. Don't expect the chemistry between Saif and Kareena, the real-life pair, to sizzle. On-screen only Kareena's smokily lined eyes do.
Rating: Viewable to the extent that you set aside your brain. This earns a predictable 2 out of 5 stars!
Karan Johar attempts to tell another story much like the theme in his more successful My Name is Khan venture of the Western world's war against terrorism and the connection to Islamic extremists. Saif (Ehsaan) wins over the love of Kareena (Avantika) while they're teaching in the same college in Delhi. When Kareena decides to move back to New York, Ehsaan suggests they marry and move together. In New York they soon settle in making their home in an Indian neighborhood. Avantika and Ehsaan befriend their muslim neighbors whose women members Avantika observes are suppressed. One of these women pleads with Avantika for help and warns her of her own life endangered. Here the plot thickens. It turns out that Ehsaan and the neighboring trio of muslim men are in fact a terrorist sleeper cell planning a series of terror attacks in the US. The first attack blows up a passenger plane, among those dead, Vivek's (Riyaz) paramour. Riyaz a seasoned war journalist follows a lead to hunt the perpetrators and avenge his lover's death. Can Riyaz sabotage the other planned attacks, does Avantika escape the clutches of Ehsaan and the killers? The rest of the movie unfolds this story.
One does wonder why Avantika can't dial 911 in the first place before being captured by Ehsaan and co. or why Riyaz the war jouralist can't involve authorities in his effort to sniff out the killers, but must resort to very rudimentary sleuthing. I suppose this was intended to give the movie its 2 hour stretch. Don't expect the chemistry between Saif and Kareena, the real-life pair, to sizzle. On-screen only Kareena's smokily lined eyes do.
Rating: Viewable to the extent that you set aside your brain. This earns a predictable 2 out of 5 stars!
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