Kurbaan (2009)

Ehsaan Khan (Sail Ali Khan) woos Avantika (Kareena Kapoor), a fellow college professor in Delhi. Two coffees and one song later, they are in love. When Avantika learns that she must move back to New York to pursue her teaching career, Ehsaan whines about how doomed long distance relationships are and to her surprise offers to move with her to the Big Apple. Before you can say ‘Waiter where’s my Coffee?’ Ehsaan asks for Avantika’s hand from her worried looking father who 'naturally' opposes the Hindu-Muslim union. But a Dilwale Dulhaniya Le jayenge like line from the goateed professor Ehsaan wins him his bride and the instant coffee couple soon find themselves shopping for a house in New York. Without much effort, Ehsaan bags a job to teach (lo & behold) a volatile subject like Islam in the Western world at the same college that Avantika teaches.

If only the rest of the film unfolded this quickly.

The Asian neighborhood that the caffeine couple moves into has a strange and conservative Muslim family that makes a beeline to befriend the duo. Three young men have ‘terrorist’ written all over their costume & make-up design & take orders from Bhai sahab (Om Puri looking like a tired bull frog) and his wife- the matriarchal Aapa (Kirron Kher in an erratic Afghani accent that sounds suspiciously Punjabi). Three hijab clad daughters in law also hang around the place, occasionally serving dinner. But Avantika is oblivious to anything being amiss. Only when the panic stricken daughter in law played by the animated Nauheed Cyrusi lands up at Avantika’s doorstep, claiming that she may be killed and needs help, does Avantika begin to suspect foul play in the neighborhood. Her dead pan husband tells her not to get involved in other peoples affairs but surely, in true thriller fashion, Avantika decides to investigate the sudden disappearance of the panicky daughter in law all by herself.

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