Is Kurbaan a pacey thriller?
Considering that it’s a two and a half hour film, yes it is. Once my character Riyaz Masood comes into the film, the thriller begins and the pace picks up. You play a journalist in Kurbaan. What do you know about journalists? What did you research on? (Laughs) I know a lot about journalists. Sitting on the other side for seven years is too much of the research done. I think Riyaz Masood is very different from the Bollywood beat kind of a journalist. I don’t take Bollywood journalism very seriously for what it’s made itself into. Today it’s a competition between who can run whom down more. We do have a few journalists who are holding it up right there and not ready to bow down. But most of it is about TRP’s now. Riyaaz Masood is a serious journalist and that’s what gives him so much depth. I don’t take Bollywood journalism very seriously for what it’s made itself into Is Kurbaan a burning debate? Yes it is. It is a burning debate that terrorism is consuming the whole world now. After th
