--- title: 'Kurbaan (2009)' type: 'film' director: 'Rensil D''Silva' released: '2009-01-01' runtime_minutes: 167 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Action' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'India' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/kurbaan-2009' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185442/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Kurbaan (2009) 2009 · 167 min · Drama, Action, Thriller · India ## Synopsis Kurbaan (transl. Sacrificed) is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film directed by Rensil D'Silva and produced by Karan Johar under Dharma Productions. It is based on a story by Johar, who co-wrote the screenplay with D'Silva. Starring Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor, the story revolves around Avantika Ahuja (Kapoor), a psychology professor in New York who returns to Delhi, India, to caretake her ailing father and develops a relationship with Ehsaan (Khan). Avantika and Ehsaan fall in love, get married, and leave for the United States, where she discovers that Ehsaan and his family are linked to Islamic terrorist groups after witnessing the house arrest, domestic abuse, and murder of now family member Salma. The film's backdrop on global terrorism forms the crux. ## Credits - **Director:** [Rensil D'Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/rensil-d-silva) - **Screenplay:** [Rensil D'Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/rensil-d-silva) - **Original Music Composer:** [Salim-Sulaiman](https://cinepixo.com/people/salim-sulaiman) - **Producer:** [Karan Johar](https://cinepixo.com/people/karan-johar) - **Director of Photography:** [Hemant Chaturvedi](https://cinepixo.com/people/hemant-chaturvedi) ## Cast - [Rupinder Nagra](https://cinepixo.com/people/rupinder-nagra) - [Kareena Kapoor](https://cinepixo.com/people/kareena-kapoor) - [Vivek Oberoi](https://cinepixo.com/people/vivek-oberoi) - [Dia Mirza](https://cinepixo.com/people/dia-mirza) - [Om Puri](https://cinepixo.com/people/om-puri) - [Saif Ali Khan](https://cinepixo.com/people/saif-ali-khan) - [Kirron Kher](https://cinepixo.com/people/kirron-kher) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.kurbaan.com Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/kurbaan-2009 Film facts: Wikidata (Q776098); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.