New York

New York is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Kabir Khan and produced by Aditya Chopra, based on a script by lyricist Sandeep Shrivastava and a story by Chopra, with Visual Computing Labs, Tata Elxsi Ltd. handling the visual effects. The film stars John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in lead roles. Shot simultaneously in Hindi and English, the film tells a story about 3 friends studying at the fictional New York State University whose carefree and pleasant lives are changed by the September 11 attacks and its aftermath. New York released on 26 June 2009, and proved to be a commercial success, grossing ₹81.21 crore worldwide, and was the sixth-highest grossing Hindi film of 2009. It received highly positive reviews from critics upon release, with praise for its direction, screenplay and performances of the cast, with particular praise directed towards Abraham, Kaif and Nitin Mukesh's performances. At the 55th Filmfare Awards, New York received 2 nominations – Best Actress (Kaif) and Best Supporting Actor (Mukesh). Plot In the United States in 2009, the FBI arrest Omar Aijaz, a young Muslim man originally from Delhi, India, after finding guns in the trunk of a taxi cab he owned. Omar is then taken into custody and interrogated by FBI Agent Roshan, also a Muslim man originally from South Asia who has been living in the United States for twenty years. Roshan wants to know everything about Omar especially his link with Sameer "Sam" Sheikh. Omar then discovers that he was set up by the FBI to force him to spy on Sam, a former college friend of his whom he has not seen in seven years and who the FBI believes is a terrorist. In the process, Omar discovers that Sam has married Maya, a mutual friend whom Omar had a crush on in university and finds out that they have a young son, Danyal.