Yash Raj’s New York Suffers 9/11-like Collapse; in ICU
Made by a Muslim director Kabir Khan, New York is post 9-11 America as seen through angry, vengeful Muslim eyes.
Consider the 9/11 facts.
After a bunch of Muslim terrorists living in America ram airplanes through the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and try (and fail) to ram another into the Capitol building in Washington DC, kill several thousand innocent Americans and cause economic damage running into tens of billions of dollars, America did what any country in its right mind would do at that time – it arrested/detained some Muslims of Middle Eastern origin living in America (exact number is debatable) who had been detected engaging in suspicious activities. And in the process of extracting information from them to prevent another horrific attack on the homeland some of these Muslims were most likely roughed up.
These (above) are the undisputable facts.
But the big picture you get from Yash Raj Films’ New York is one of America’s FBI randomly picking up Muslims at train stations and cabs across America, stripping them, pissing on their faces and heads, torturing them, making them wear dog leashes and harassing them endlessly.
That is fiction, a bad yarn penned by a malicious idiot going by the name of Aditya Chopra.
You say this is a movie and so it’s fine to play fast and easy with the facts.
Really? Try making a Bollywood movie on the massacre, endless harassment and horrific rape of Muslims in Kashmir (which is not fiction by the way).
Aside from the fact that New York the movie never provides a proper context of what justifiably led America to engage in some unsavory practices (the full extent of which we may never know) and plays havoc with the facts, the movie is not a edge of the seat thriller but au contraire a lengthy, predictable Bollywood production with mediocre photography, below par routine by Katrina Kaif, below average music and OK performances by Neil Nitin Mukesh and John Abraham, and entrenching Irrfan Khan as the new Iftekar of Bollywood movies. Continue reading »
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