Tere Bin Laden

Ali Hassan (Ali Zafar) is a reporter with Danka TV, a downmarket local TV channel in Karachi, Pakistan. He is keen to migrate to the US for a better life and wants to work for an American news channel. He gets a chance to fly to the US, but ruins it on board while filming his own audition. He recites the words Hijack and Bomb too many times; thus scaring his fellow passengers and flight crew. As soon as he reaches the USA, he is deported.

Furthermore, because of this incident his visa application is rejected six times in seven years. While covering a local event for his channel, he comes across an Osama Bin Laden look-alike, Noora (Pradhuman Singh), and hits upon an idea to make a fake Osama tape. He manages to convince his assistant Gul (Nikhil Ratnaparkhi) about the merits of his plan. With help from his travel agents assistant Zoya (Sugandha Garg) and a local radio jockey Qureshi (Rahul Singh), he is able to make the tape by tricking Noora into unknowingly posing as Bin Laden. He then sells the tape to the owner of his channel, hoping to raise money for a new false identity, a new passport and a renewed attempt at getting the elusive US visa.

However, the gravity of their action strikes them when the US Government takes the tape seriously and gets involved, as do the Pakistani intelligence agencies. Noora, too, comes to know about the trick played upon him and goes into hiding in his house.Ali decides to defuse the situation by making another tape in which Osama would be declaring ceasefire with US. He manages to convince Noora and Qureshi. During the shooting of the tape in Danka TV studio, Noora unwittingly detonates a grenade, which kills his beloved prize rooster.

Depressed, Noora runs away from the location with the Osama-makeup still on, forcing Ali and his team to follow suit. They manage to get hold of Noora and try to convince him for another shoot. Meanwhile, the FBI team, led by Ted Wood (Barry John) and Usman (Chinmay Mandlekar), head of the Pakistani intelligence agency tracks down the location of Ali and his team. The police arrests Noora, Ali and his team. Ted is delirious that he could at last catch Osama bin Laden.

However, during the interrogation, the truth is revealed and to save Teds face, Ali convinces him about his idea of making a tape of Osama declaring ceasefire. The film ends with US accepting the offer of ceasefire and Ted getting elected as Defence Secretary. Ali is, at last, able to make it to the US and Noora too changes his lifestyle, marries Zoya and helps her with the daily routine in her beauty parlor. Usman is shown to be admitted in a mental hospital as he tries to tell the truth to the world.The film garnered mixed to positive reviews.

Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India, while giving it a rating of 4 out of 5 noted that compared with recent laugh riots at box office, Tere Bin Laden has both: a smart script and some smart acting. Noyon Jyoti Parasara of AOL rated the film 4 out of 5 and said, What makes Tere Bin Laden mint fresh is that despite being based on the post 9/11 scenario and the Laden scare, this one is a fun ride. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film a rating of 3.5 out of 5 and said, On the whole, Tere Bin Laden is a fun-ride that makes you smile constantly and even laugh outrageously in those two hours. Pankaj Sabnani of Bollywood Trade News Network gave it 3.

5/5 and stated Tere Bin Laden is laden with many humorous moments. It is by far the funniest film in recent times. A must watch. Rediff called the film a brilliant satire. It further said, Tere Bin Laden is not just a film about slapstick jokes and naughty humour.

Through all the gags and jokes, one is forced to accept how willingly we compromise on our ideals and values to attain our cherished goals; how we persist in giving personal gain more importance than building a cohesive society. The film received international media attention too with The Guardian terming the film as a satire with a sting and felt that the film required viewing by the American Government. NDTV wrote: Tere Bin Laden is one of those whacked-out satires that sounds far funnier in theory than it finally is on screen. It lauded the director Abhishek Sharma for pulling off a parody while combining poultry jokes with globally-significant comments which is no small achievement. Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN felt that the film is a low-IQ comedy that succeeds in making you laugh occasionally, despite its highly improbable premise.

He said that the script is over-simplistic in its portrayal of Americas cluelessness and confusion over how to deal with the terror threat, and as a result the films final act comes off as too contrived even for a comedy. Rotten Tomatoes declared that 54% of 368 users liked the film and on an average, rated the film at 3.3 out of a scale of 5. Political analyst, Jyoti Malhotra in Arab international daily, Asharq Alawsat, saw the film as a message for Pak India Talks, referring to foreign ministers of India and Pakistan, who were meeting at the same time. According to her, the film, promises to unite film-goers.

an ingredient terribly dangerous for power-hungry politicians on any side.