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Tere Bin laden
Cast: Ali Zafar, Suganda Garg, Rahul Singh, Piyush Mishra Director: Abhishek Sharma
Rating: ***
A madhouse comic caper, Abhishek Sharma’s Tere Bin Laden is sure to make you laugh. Ali Hasan (Ali Zafar), a reporter for 'Danka’ TV wants to go to America at any cost. He has had umpteen rejections following 9/11 so he tries to come up with cornball schemes to achieve his sole ambition.
One of them involves creating the latest Osama Bin Laden video in order to earn the big bucks he requires to pay the agent who is going to give him a new identity and passport. Luckily for him a chance photo-shoot at a cock-a roo competition gets him the perfect candidate, Noora, a Punjabi poultry farmer (a perfect doppelganger for Osama) who also trains cocks for the homegrown cuckudoo-coo championships !
Abhiskek Sharma’s script has zany and highly entertaining elements and his narrative too is imbued with the same sense of fun, energy and excitement.
We are not looking for logic here. The joie de vivre is all pervading. The running length is also just perfect.
Abhishek and his team spew out the fun in just the right doses. He hits on biting satire to ridicule the Bush administration and it’s hegemony politics.
Ali Zafar’s performance is central to it all. He wears the right expressions and his becoming body language adds power and effectiveness to the character he plays.
Rahul Singh is solid as a popular RJ who speaks fluent Arabic and hates all things American. The other supporting performances are equally effective.
This is another film worth the high price of a multiplex ticket!
