Kurbaan (2009 film)

Kurbaan Hindi , Urdu , pronouncedqrban , Sacrificed is a Bollywood crime drama film directed by Rensil DSilva and produced by Karan Johar. The film, set against the backdrop of global terrorism, features Vivek Oberoi and Saif Ali Khan in pivotal roles along with Kareena Kapoor, Dia Mirza, Rupinder Nagra, Om Puri and Kirron Kher. Released onNovember 2009, the film deals with an underground organizations attempt at instilling fear by means of terrorism in the United States. It also intersperses philosophical arguments over the corruption of religious beliefs in an attempt to rectify the damage to Muslims worldover.

Avantika helps Ehsaan in getting a job at the same university where she teaches and Ehsaan is appointed as a professor to teach Islam and the Modern World. Avantikas life changes when her neighbor Salma Nauheed Cyrusi informs her about her house arrest and requests Avantika to help her by contacting her friend Rihana Dia Mirza, a TV reporter. Avantika meets Rihana and tells her about Salmas problem and meanwhile she meets Riyaz Vivek Oberoi, Rihanas boyfriend and colleague who takes Salmas problem as a case of domestic violence. Unfortunately, Rihana has to fly out of the city before meeting Salma and she gets her flight information when Avantika is still at her office.Avantika becomes pregnant and waits at her house to share this with Ehsaan but when she hears voices coming from their neighbors house, she investigates and finds out that her neighbors Bhaijaan Om Puri and the others are planning to send TahirTaher Shabbir and blast the flight in which Rihana is traveling, and expose them. Her neighbors see her and chase her to her house where she meets Ehsaan who consoles her but soon reveals that he is also a part of the terrorist group. Bhaijaan ask Ehsaan to kill her in order to make their operation successful, however Ehsaan denies after learning that Avantika is pregnant. Ehsaan keeps Avantika in house arrest and threatens to kill her father in India if she tries to inform anyone. Avantika realizes that she is a pawn in Ehsaans game. It turns out he married her to legitimately obtain Social Security Cards and a new identity in the USA. Avantika calls Rihana and leaves a voice message on her office number to stop her from boarding the flight. Unfortunately, the plane explodes killing Rihana. ........

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