Critic's Rating: 3.0
Direction: Abhishek Sharma
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes
Readers Rating: 4.
Starring:
Ali
Zafar ... Ali
Piyush Mishra
Sugandha Garg
Pradhuman
Singh ... Noora
Barry John
Raahul Singh
Seema
Bhargava
Nikhil Ratnaparkhi
Chinmay Mandlekar
Chirag
Vohra
Rahul Singh
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Tere Bin
Laden
'Tere Bin
Laden'
re-titled as 'Tere Bin'
Story:
Ali, an ambitious young reporter, working in a
downmarket TV news channel, is desperate to get to Amreeka, any which
way.
Having had his visa rejected several times, he embarks on a novel plan
to enter
El Dorado. He makes a fake video of Osama bin Laden, using a look-alike,
Noora,
who happens to be a humble chicken farmer and hopes this would be his
ticket to
the US. Alas, the best laid plans always
backfire....
Movie
Review:
Now this one's a real cornball. It maybe a shade amateur and have
loads of rough edges to its canvas, if you compare it to a regular
Bollywood
comedy. But when it comes to content, the film scores above several of
the
recent laugh riots that may have done well at the box office, but
definitely
didn't have an intelligent script to boast of. Tere Bin Laden has both: a
smart
script and some smart acting.
Leading
the goofball team is veteran
Piyush Mishra as the cranky TV producer who heads a TV channel that goes
by the
dubious name of `Danka' (or something like that). He sends his
newshounds on a
punishment assignment: to capture the crowing of cocks in a
cock-a-doodle
competition.
Funny Osama
in 'Tere Bin
Laden'
anyhow
sleepwalks his way through most of his assignments because he's waiting
for the
big kill: an ace reporter's job in the hot and happening US media. But
the
routine assignment metamorphoses into a dream assignment when Ali
discovers a
chicken farmer who happens to be an Osama clone.
The rest is easy:
an ambitious make-up artist (Sugandha Garg), a maverick dubbing artist
who can
speak Arabic (Rahul Singh), loads of hungry-for-TRP TV channels and a
gullible
and godawfully stupid Amreekan government are all that it takes to give
the
world its new breaking news story.
The actors are having a ball,
that's evident. The scriptwriter (Abhishek Sharma) is just loving it:
making
digs on America's war against terror. And the viewers are in for some
breezy
fun. Savour the satire.
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