Kurbaan' a Brilliantly Designed Terror Plot(IANS Film Review; Rating ****)

2009-11-21 12:50:00

: 'Kurbaan'; Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Om Puri, Kirron Kher; Director: Rensil d'Silva; Rating: **** 'When a bomb explodes, mainly the innocent die,' says Vivek Oberoi towards the finale when, to put it at the most basic level, all hell breaks loose. In 'Rang De Basanti', Rensil d'Silva had taken screenwriting in Hindi cinema to a new level of expressionism. With his directorial debut 'Kurbaan', Rensil carries the spoken, unspoken, visual and metaphorical language of mainstream cinema to an unvisited shore. Blending the thorny theme of the political-cultural identity of the Muslim community post 26/11 with the commercial identity of contemporary Hindi cinema is not an easy task. The film manages to be superior to other films on global terrorism, a theme that now threatens to turn into a full-blown commercial formula. In 'Kurbaan', the characters are not representational of Islamic ideology. They function in the brilliantly-designed plot as people who subscribe to the view that the Muslim community across the world is the victim of American oil-politics that threatens to annihilate the Islamic world.More;http://sify.com/news/39-Kurbaan-39-a-brilliantly-designed-terror-plot-IANS-Film-Review-Rating-news-National-jlvmObea

Kurbaan' a Brilliantly Designed Terror Plot(IANS Film Review; Rating ****)