Movie: Mission Istanbul Cast: Viveik Oberoi, Zayed Khan, Sriya Saran, Shweta Bhardwaj and Suneil Shetty (in special appearance) Director: Director: Apurva Lakhia
Take a bunch of muscle flexing actors, throw in a couple of brainless dumb bimbettes, choose a foreign location and stuff as much action as you can – and here you have, a serving of a typical Bollywood masala film.
Looks like director Apurva Lakhia had exactly this recipe in mind when he thought of making a disastrous movie like ‘Mission Istaanbul’. With an inferior look alike of ‘Hulk’ villain and a couple of flop heroes, Apurva Lakhia has set out on a search for a hit, which would definitely evade him.
Story of the movie is more than predictive and there is nothing new or exciting about it. Our good old hero is trapped in the villain trap who happen to run a terror network all around the world. And guess what, they have all their planning stored in one computer located on a 13th floor (yes, the unlucky number) office of a building. And hero has to catch hold of that computer and steal their important datas at any cost. That’s the only way of saving the world from their clutches. Phew!
And yes, you guess it right! Helping him in his missing ‘save earth’ comes our second hero. He has access to all the places, even inside the highly guarded den of the villain. But alas, only if he could reach that doomed 13th floor. All these years, he has been waiting for that one perfect hero material who would steal the datas for him.
Needless to say, together they defeat the entire bunch of hooligans who have supposedly shaken up the entire world with their terrorist activities. And helping them in the mission is one ‘clad in tighter than birthday jacket leather suit’ heroine of ours who keeps changing sides in the movie. And yes, she tries her level best to create that extra oomph, with little success.
Also, there is this journalist wife of our hero who keeps bumping into troubles one after another.
On the acting front, everyone except Viveik Oberoi has disappointed. Newcomer Nikitin Dheer has got a role of his lifetime but doesn’t show anything promising than his ‘extra pumped’ muscles. TV turned film actor Shabir Ahluwalia has also done a very non-impressive job.
The film has some very good action sequences and that’s the only aspect of it worth mentioning. Music is below average and so is script. Songs disturb the flow of the story and so does a special appearance by director’s old friend Abhishek Bachchan. Director has been successful in taking some very good shots though!
