A Karan Johar film, KURBAAN is all set to release on November, 20, 2009. The film is directed by Rensil D'Silva (RANG DE BASANTI writer) and stars Kareena Kapoor along with Saif Ali Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Dia Mirza, Kirron Kher and Om Puri. Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant have given music for the film and lyrics by Prasoon Joshi. Avantika is a professor in New York but has to come back to India to take care of her ailing father who has suffered a heart attack. She joins back as a professor in Delhi University. There she meets a temporary professor by the name of Ehsaan Khan, also teaching in the same university. Love happens and soon, thereafter, Avantika gets a call from New York asking her to join back for the semester. Before leaving, the couple decides to get married and together moves to America. On arriving in New York they get busy setting up their home, when one evening one of their neighbours, Anjum and Hamid, invite them over for dinner. As it appears from the meeting this household seems be very conservative. A woman called Salma, who was also at the dinner turns up at Avantika’s place the next morning and reveals that somehow she’s in a great danger. What’s the danger is not immediately revealed. But as Avantika gets into helping her she realizes that she has been part of a grand coup, a great plan, even before she met Salma. She ends up getting trapped in danger herself and doesn’t know how to come out of it. She also realizes that all the people who she trusted were part of the plan and that she has just been used as a pawn in the entire game.