Kurbaan

9/19/2026

**Film: KURBAAN** **Director:** Rensil D'Silva **Producers:** Hiroo Johar, Karan Johar **Music composed by:** Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Salim-Sulaiman **Release date:** 20 November 2009 (India) **Review by Dr Usman Latif Khawaja** This is an error-terror epic which starts with a Hindu girl, Avantika, falling for a Muslim boy, Ehsaan, who is cuddling and kissing her right in front of Jamia Masjid in Delhi, as we now live in a secular world. He then goes into the mosque, ties a kerchief on his oblique scalp as he cannot afford a cap, though he is wearing jeans worth 200 dollars, and after praying Asr or Qasr comes down to the kissing session, where a song starts playing to remind us this is a Muslim movie. The lyrics are “Alhamdulillah”, “Allah-