De Dana Dan

The great entertainers are back thats the tagline but trust me it does anything but entertaining....
Story wise well if one insists about it,the gist of it, at least in the first act, tells of two men Nitin (Akshay Kumar) and Ram (Suneil Shetty) who are both drowned by their debts and stuck in jobs with no prospects. Their respective girlfriends Anjani (Katrina Kaif) and Manpreet (Sameera Reddy) happen to be from wealthy backgrounds, and their parents see it as material benefit should they be wedding other well to do folks and starts the introduction of mishmash of 27 lunatic characters in the movie..

Both men now become desperate in not wanting to lose their lady love, and crack up the most insane of plots involving kidnapping, which soon spiralled out of control to involve an Indian ambassador, their girlfriends parents, a sneaky hotel employee, a bumbling hit-man, a mafia Don, a corrupt practices police inspector (though his rank is only that of sergeant), a mistress, and plenty of mistaken identities to make everyone beat around the bush in the most absurd manner, leaving you the audience having to open your eyes and ears to link everyone's relationship, motivation and intentions, both real, perceived and deliberately under deceit.

The last scene too fell prey to the largest bugbear of the movie, and that's where scenes were dragged out longer than its welcome not that other sequences in the movie were welcome but the end takes the cake it became unbearable to say the least..

Hoping Priyadarshan's comedy would be a laugh riot but honestly it was nowhere close to even satisfactory...Avoid it...

New York - Three friends ready to face the world... and then the world changed.

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Wow it was absolutely great to see the audi of Inox packed for this movie.
A real nice movie on the post global scene post 9/11,the movie has a lovely humane touch to it.
This movie reflects the mood that's prevalent across the globe, post 9/11. The world is divided today. No two opinions on that!
This movie is special and real different genre of movie from Yashraj Studios.
And it was a real good relief from the bad spate of hindi movie releases so far this year.
This movie is a tale of friendship, with terrorism as the wallpaper, NEW YORK hits you like a ton of bricks at several points in the narrative. In fact, there was a possibility that NEW YORK may turn out to be a dry experience, a documentary perhaps, but the drama is so well structured and so gripping that you get sucked into the world of Sam(John Abraham), Omar(Neil Nitin Mukesh) and Maya(Katrina Kaif) from its inception.
The story goes something like this - Omar [Neil Nitin Mukesh] has gone abroad for the first time in his life and soon enough, he begins to see and love America through the eyes of his American friends, Sam [John Abraham] and Maya [Katrina Kaif]. But an incident changes the world round them.
At this point enters Agent Roshan [Irrfan], an FBI agent, who sets the ball rolling for a series of tumultuous events that turn the lives of these friends upside down.
NEW YORK affects you like no other Hindi film has done so far [on 9/11]. In fact, there are portions that give you goose bumps, especially towards the second half of the film, when John recounts his past.
One just can't guess what and where the story is headed and what the culmination would be. The director and his team of writers establish the plot and characters beautifully, but the real action is reserved for the second half. The nightmarish experience that John undergoes is disturbing, but lifts the film several notches up.
Director Kabir Khan has come up with another winner after Kabul Express this time.Cinematography of this movie is really striking.The Director has injected songs only when required.
John, Katrina and Neil, all actors, deliver their career-best performance. If the first half belongs to Neil, John takes over the second hour completely. John is superb when he recalls the past. You can feel his pain, that effective is his performance. Also, note his expressions towards the end. This is a different John, for sure. Just one word for his performance -- fabulous!
Irrfan is, as always, first-rate.
On the whole, NEW YORK is amongst the finest films produced by Yash Raj.Highly recommended.