Movie Reviews: New York

With the Distributor-Producer conflict getting resolved amicably, we saw the release of New York 2 weeks back. I got a hand on the 3GP version of the movie. I loaded it onto my Transcend MP850 player and settled myself to the 2 Hour bus ride back home.

After reading the reviews in paper I had a Neutral opinion of the movie. So I went into the movie with no bias.

The movie is about an Indian Named Omar (Niel Nitin Mukesh) who is arrested for being in possession of an AK-47 riffle in boot of his car. The FBI (case being handled by an officer of Indian Origin, Irfan Khan). On finding the Gun, Omar is shocked and flabbergasted. In no-time he is the interrogation room of the FBI is being quizzed by irfan about the Gun). Omar has no clue and pleads innocence, but it falls on deaf ears. Irfan wants to know about Omar's college days in New York State University. He wants to list out his friends in the university. Omar recounts all his friends at NYSU including Maya (Katrina Kaif).
Irfan wants to know about Samir (John Abraham). Omar is lost for a second and then he recollects samir as well. Irfan is suspicious and pokes Omar as to why he intentionally forgot to mention Samir. Omar is puzzled. He tries to explain that it was just a slip. But Irfan does not buy that. Irfan wants all the details of Samir.
Omar is lost. He wants to know what details does Ifran want about samir and why is he fixated with Samir. Irfan is Unfazed. He wants all the details of Samir from his college days.
And Omar starts to Narrate the story of Friendship, love and being heart broken.
Irfan makes a revelation to Omar. Irfan is shocked and does not believe Irfan.
What follows next is the story.


My Impression
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I was pleasantly surprised with the movie. I did not expect such a mature treatment being meted by the mainstream production house (Yash Raj Production). Since I had an open mind and approached the movie as it went along, I was happy to see a fairly decent movie. SO here are my observations for different aspects of the movie

Cinematography :
Great cinematography. New York was captured beautifully. I was taken into the beauty of New York. Great Cinematography.

Story
I was impressed with the story as well. Not that this is some path breaking script. But it delves into the life of one of the possible suspects who gets wrongly caught in the aftermath of 9/11. His desperation and his reason for what he did and is doing. I liked the different view-points expressed in the movie.

Songs
For once I am happy to see the songs being in the background and not obstructing the relevance of it in the movie. Songs do pop up at time but they merely reflect the mood of the moment. I like it this way and I was happy to see it getting reflected in New York.
Camera work of the songs is excellent. Music is good too.

Acting
We all know that John Abraham is not very good at varying emotions on Screen. Thankfully he does not have to do much with his emotions in the movie either. So John Abraham as Sam does a fairly decent job.
Katrina as Maya surprisingly comes out with a very good performance. I liked her acting. I feel, given a chance, she can deliver great performance.
Neil Nitin Mukesh has acted well in the movie. I was not thoroughly impressed but was happy with his performance. I would definitely like to watch more of him in future.
Irfan Khan as the FBI agent goes through his scenes with a poker face. Nevertheless he did do well. More so because the scrip was tight and his role was properly etched out.
Overall the cast looked good, I could not relate them as a team but was happy with the final performance.

Rating:
Overall I would give a 7 on 10 for the movie.