New York (2009 film)

New York
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kabir Khan
Produced by	Aditya Chopra
Screenplay by	Sandeep Srivastava
Story by	Aditya Chopra
Starring	John Abraham Neil Nitin Mukesh Katrina Kaif Irrfan Khan
Narrated by	Neil Nitin Mukesh
Music by	Pritam Pankaj Awasthi Julius Packiam
Cinematography	Aseem Mishra
Edited by	Rameshwar S Bhagat
Production company	Yash Raj Films
Distributed by	Yash Raj Films
Release date	26 June 2009 (2009-06-26)
Running time	151 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹23 crore (equivalent to ₹40 crore or US$6.0 million in 2016)
Box office	₹65 crore (equivalent to ₹114 crore or US$17 million in 2016)

New York is a 2009 Indian thriller film directed by Kabir Khan, produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films, and screenplay by Sandeep Srivastava. Visual effects are by Visual Computing Labs, Tata Elxsi Ltd. It stars John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Irrfan Khan. New York begins in 1999, ends in 2008, and tells the story of three students studying at the fictional New York State University whose lives are changed by the September 11 attacks and its aftermath.

In the United States in 2008, the FBI arrest Omar Aijaz (Neil Nitin Mukesh) after finding guns in the trunk of a taxi cab he owned. Omar, a young Muslim man originally from Delhi, is then taken into custody and interrogated by FBI Agent Roshan (Irrfan Khan), also a Muslim man originally from South Asia who has been living in the United States for twenty years. Omar then discovers that he was set up by the FBI in order to force him to spy on a former college friend, Sameer Shaikh (John Abraham), 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 (Katrina Kaif), a mutual friend whom Omar had a crush on in university and finds out that Sameer and Maya have a young son, Danyal (Aidan Wagner).

Roshan orders Omar to tell him everything he knows about Sameer. The film then flashes back to September 1999, when Omar begins his studies at the New York State University. He is befriended by his international student counselor Maya and learns that though she was born and raised in New York, she is fluent in Hindi because of her mother's interest in Bollywood films. Omar also meets Sam, another Indian American who is also Muslim and fluent in Hindi due to the fact that his father is a professor of Indian studies. Over the next two years, all three become inseparable friends and gradually Omar falls in love with Maya. When Omar realises that she loves Sam, however, he distances himself from them both. Their carefree days finally end with the onset of 9/11.