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Mission Istanbul is a movie that lacks all logic and is a sheer disappointment. It does not go the thrill way, there is no espionage drama, focusing on execution of terrorist operations. It does not even go the emotional way, into the psyche of the news reporter who is the protagonist of the movie. In fact, the movie goes nowhere and looks like a B grade movie with the backdrop as Istanbul.Story of Mission Istanbul:


The excuse of a hero Vikas Sagar(Zayed Khan) who is supposed to be one of the best journos in India accepts a 3 month assignment from Al-Johara, a controversial Istanbul based news channel. At about the same time, Vikas is about to divorce his news caster wife Anjali (Shreya Saran). In Istanbul, Vikas meets Oswais Shah(Suniel Shetty) the head of the news channel and Ghazni(Nikitan Dheer), the boss of Al-johara channel.


Oswais is bumped off in Afganistan. Vikas happens to meet a disappearing character called Rizwan (Viveik Oberoi) at Oswais’ funeral. Rizwan is a Turkish commander who had lost his family in terrorist attack and now wants to protect Vikas(pray why!) Rizwan lets Vikas know that the news channel head Ghajini is behind all the killings and terrorist attacks. The reporter Vikas turns into a hacker and goes to the dreaded 13th floor of the channel building to hack all confidential data of Al Johara and put it in his pen drive. There are lot of pointless chases and dishum dishums, with gun shots and bombs exploding everywhere without any need. To sum up, the erroneous story comes with the premise that Al Johara channel has taken the idea of the dead dreaded terrorist Abu Nazir and is deliberately keeping terrorism and fundamentalist ideologies alive in his name.



Technicalities:
Some of the actions scenes are good although they are not the best you’ve seen. The editing is slick but that is the only feature that warrants a comment. Nothing else impresses.



Best scenes of Mission Istanbul:
The End (we are not kidding)



Minus points of Mission Istanbul:
1. Mission Istanbul looks like a vehicle to promote sponsoring brands Mountain Dew and Aaj Tak News Channel.


2. Extremely irritating songs and to more woe, they crop up at the wrong times. Abhishek Bachchan’s item number is pathetic.


3. One cant digest a scholarly looking news reporter fighting, like an ace army man attacking and killing terrorists. Farfetched to the core. Also he is shown to hack confidential high end systems like piece of cake, even “unlocking the password” like it is nobody else’s business.


4. Pathetic direction. Meandering plot. Can’t believe it is the same guy who made Shoot out at Lokhandwala. Or was that Sanjay Gupta?


5. The George Bush duplicate used in the movie is totally irrelevant. Forget making fun of George Bush, his scenes look forced and totally out of the place. Though it is meant to be humorous, nobody in the theatre really laughed.


6. The pack-a-punch dialogues that was reminiscent in Shoot out at Lokhandwala is missing in Mission Istanbul.



Performances:

Most of the films released in 2008 have been pathetic ventures and Mission Istanbul is no less. But some of these flops films had good performances but Mission Istanbul falters the most in histrionics department. The acting is very amateurish. Zayed Khan acts dumb, in fact, he should only do a dumb man’s role because whenever he opens his mouth, it is tragedy. Shweta Bharadwaj can’t act to save her life. Shreya Saran disappoints too. The dependable Viveik Oberoi may have been right in grousing that he didn’t get enough roles. He tries hard but the weak characterization of the role fails him. Thank God, Suniel Shetty made a wise decision as a producer, to give a brief performance only.



Conclusion: Mission Istanbul suffers from weak characterizations and a bad plot. It isolates the viewers from the thick of things. At no point does the viewer feel connected to the script. Suniel anna, you have got brains, please invest in good cinema. Looks like Tashan and Love Story 2050 has competition!

Rating-1.5/5
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