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By Joginder Tuteja, October 14, 2008 - 17:51 IST
MOVIE DETAILS
Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Zayed Khan, Shreya Saran, Suneil Shetty, Nikiten Dheer, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Shweta Bhardwaj
Director: Apoorva Lakhia
Producer: Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Shabbir Boxwala
Music: Shamir Tandon, Chirantan Bhatt, Anu Malik, Mika Singh
Lyrics: Shabbir Ahmed, Hamza Faruqui, Sameer, Ishq Bector, Mika Singh, Virag Mishra
THE FILM
Mission Istaanbul is one of those movies that make you exclaim at the end- "Arrey oh director saab, aapne kya socha tha, agar yeh movie banaoge to audience shabaashi degi! Nahi, hargiz nahi!"
If only getting some very good background music, striking cinematography and decently orchestrated action sequences were good enough to make a movie, then why would one need a story writer and a director? Because these are the two aspects where the film falls flat even as the technical crew goes all out in promising Mission Istaanbul to be a good package deal.
However, it is an exciting tale to begin with. The opening sequence is done quite well as terror coverage through various media channels across the globe in different languages are interestingly amalgamated to give audience a very good idea of what to expect. Zayed's introduction as a journalist (ok, so we are willing to ignore an utterly ignorable and meaningless love song which is really off-plot), his induction in a news channel at Istaanbul, terror camps in Afghanistan, media honcho Nikiten Dheer suspected to be hobnobbing with terrorists, Vivek Oberoi's hide and seek act while protecting Zayed, Sunil Shetty's killing in a war zone - all of this makes for a pacy beginning to Mission Istaanbul which keeps moving on a rapid pace. Ok, so there are some unbelievable elements in the narrative as well, but one doesn't mind that much. Come on, it is a masala entertainer and the hero always wins.
But kab tak? Aakhir kuch toh limit ho! Because what follows from here on is an absolute downer. It is like a F1 car racing down the track, only to find the fuel vanishing completely in a matter of seconds. The movie from here on just turns out to be a collage of one action sequence after another, most of them hardly making sense, as the heroes just go about fighting the bad men and even doing the world some favor by declaring that Osama Bin Laden doesn't exist anymore. He has been killed quite some time back with only computer graphics keeping him alive in eyes of the world. Ok, thank you so much.
There are some more 'gyaan ki baatein' even as Zayed and Vivek do some 'dhishum dhishum' on screen that one wonders whether terrorists were required to go back to their training camps to take on these two dare devils. It just turns out to be an aimless journey with Nikiten Dheer just vanishing away in a jiffy (in the middle of a fight sequence, he is shown to be hit by a fast moving vehicle, only to be 'presumed' killed)!
Looking at this, one wonders whether director Apoorva Lakhia indeed has plans to make a sequel to the film. Well, our only request is - Please make something far more substantial next time around!
PACKAGING
Going by the tradition, EROS again comes up with a sleek-n-glossy packing made of plastic and paper combination
DURATION
The film comes in a single DVD pack with the film's duration being 120 minutes.
SPECIAL FEATURES
The DVD doesn't come with any special features
TECHNICAL DETAILS
- 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
- Subtitles in English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 and Stereo
PRICE
Rs. 199/=
CONCLUSION
There are some movies which give you pain. And this doesn't happen because they are terribly made. Instead, one feels letdown because they start off well, promise you a lot, make you go for that bucket of popcorn the moment interval sign is flashed, only to loose steam completely as the film progresses mid-way onwards. Now that is more frustrating than a film which is bad from start to finish because it doesn't promise anything at the very onset. However, when something like Mission Istaanbul comes which isn't really bad to begin with, you really feel like giving out a loud cry of agony at the end.
 
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