Mission Istaanbul-2008 : Hindi Film

Mission Istaanbul : Hindi Film Details & Trailer

Mission Istaanbul is a 2008 action thriller Movie leading star cast is Vivek Oberoi, Shriya Saran and Zayed Khan while Abhishek Bachchan is appear in the item song only. . The Movie directer is Apoorva Lakhia while producer is Balaji Motion Pictures.

The Film is based on an organisation Al Johara which bears a resemblance to Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera which was criticized by the White House as being an outlet for terrorists. The film deals with the role of Al Johara based in Turkey, a NATO country with troops engaged in Afghanistan, and the role of Indian Intelligence agency R.A.W.

Directer : Apoorva Lakhia
Producer : Ekta Kapoor,Shobha Kapoor,
Screenplay : Suresh Nair,Apoorva Lakhia
Story : Suresh Nair
Starring : Vivek Oberoi,Shriya Saran,Zayed Khan,Sunil Shetty,Shabbir Ahluwalia,Abhishek Bachchan
Music : Shamir Tandon,Chirantan Bhatt,Anu Malik,Mika Singh
Cinematography : Gururaj R J
Editer : Rajesh Singh
Distributer : Balaji Motion Pictures,Popcorn Motion Pictures
Release date : 25 July 2008
Running time : 125 mins
Country : India
Language : Hindi

Story of the film :

India’s top news reporter Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan), He would do anything for his news report, even risk his life. Ambitious, popular, and professional, Vikas is considered one of the most promising journalists in the business. Due to this reason, Uwais Hussain (Sunil Shetty), a senior producer at the controversial news channel “Al Johara” offers him a job as the head of the channel’s India bureau. Vikas is going through a divorce with his wife Anjali (Shriya Saran), and to get his mind of things, Vikas accepts the offer and flies to Istanbul to start work for “Al Johara”. Vikas then meets Dr. Lisa Lobo (Shweta Bhardwaj), at a party, Lisa who is headed to Istanbul to attend a medical convention, it is later revealed that Lisa is a R.A.W. agent looking forward to recruit Vikas.

Once in Istanbul, Vikas meets with the head of Al Johara, Ghazni (Nikitin Dheer), who has business interests all over the world but whose obsession these days is Al Johara as an instrument to shape world events. There is only one word of caution to Vikas and that’s never ever to venture onto the 13th floor known as the Catacomb. He once again meets Uwais, who tells him that he is looking forward to quitting his job and settling down with his Irish girlfriend. Ghazni sends Vikas and Uwais on an assignment to cover kidnapped journalists in one of terrorist Abu Nazir’s terrorist-camps in Afghanistan.

The two meet Abu Nazir’s brother, Khalil (Shabbir Ahluwalia), who tries to scare Vikas by killing one of the kidnapped journalists and is later revealed to be Gazni’s right hand. Vikas, shocked, takes action and fights Khalil’s thugs. Khalil then shoots Uwais multiple times leading to his death. Vikas jumps on a helicopter and rides away, seeing Uwais get killed. Reeling at this close encounter with terrorism and watching a brutal killing, Vikas arrives in Istanbul in a daze. Ghazni finds out about Uwais’ death and holds a funeral. At the funeral, Vikas is approached by a former Turkish commando, Rizwan Khan (Vivek Oberoi), who hints that no senior employee has ever quit Al Johara and rattles off a list of Al Johara employees who had been killed in terrorist attacks within days of there being of rumours of their plans to quit or their resumes circulating in the job market.

Vikas remembers Uwais telling him that he wants to quit his job. This makes Vikas suspicious about Al Johara being connected to terrorism. Before asking any more questions, Rizwan Khan disappears. Vikas discreetly runs a check on the names rattled off by Rizwan and discovers he was indeed telling the truth. Five Al Johara reports before Uwais had either died in a car bomb explosion, abducted and killed or simply found dead. He slowly notices that not everything is as simple as it looks in the offices of Al Johara, especially when he seems to bump into strangers whose faces he soon recognizes as suicide bombers in a couple of terrorist attacks.

Vikas, confused, accidentally goes to the forbidden 13th floor of the building and is tortured by Al Johara’s staff. Lisa arrives and saves him by taking him away. Vikas goes back to his apartment only to find his passport, documents and money all missing. Later on while buying a falafel roll, he finds a note in his pocket telling him he is being followed by Gazni’s men. While running from Gazni’s men, Vikas bumps into Rizwan who tells him he is being tracked wherever he goes and what he does so then Rizwaan beats up Gazni’s men and removes the trackers. Rizwan tells Vikas that Abu Nazir is actually dead but being kept alive by Al Johara through videotapes by using digital images of the terrorist and doctoring old footage because the man who killed Abu Nazir was indeed Rizwan himself as he had lost his family in a blast.

Star Cast of the film :

• Zayed Khan as Vikas Sagar
• Vivek Oberoi as Rizwan Khan
• Shriya Saran as Anjali Sagar
• Nikitin Dheer as Al Gazini
• Shabbir Ahluwalia as Khalil Nazir
• Sunil Shetty as Owais Hussain
• Shweta Bhardwaj as Dr. Lisa Lobo
• Pia Trivedi as an item number
• Brent Mendenhall as President George W. Bush
• Omar Abdullah in a Special Appearance.
• Khalil Ahmed as Osama Bin Laden
• Rosy as Secretary of president George W. Bush
• Abhishek Bachchan as an item song “Nobody Like You”

Music / Song of the film :

A Music for Mission Istaanbul was released prior to the film and is available for retail. The music closely follows the theme of the film spanning a wide variety of music director such as Mika Singh, Hamza Farooqui, Chirantan Bhatt, Shamir Tandon and Anu Malik. The music album consists 9 songs including 3 remix version.

• “World Hold On”………….Kunal Ganjawala, Gayatri Ganjawala,
• “Mission Mission”………….Hamza Farooqui
• “Jo Gumshuda”……………Shaan, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Ege
• “Nobody Like You”…………Neeraj Shridhar, Anoushka, Ishq Bector
• “Ek Baat Kahu Dildara”……………Zubeen Garg, Sunidhi Chauhan
• “Apun Ke Saath”…………………………Mika Singh, Priya Nayar, Vikas Kohli
• “Jo Gumshuda (Remix)”……………..Shaan, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Ege
• “Nobody Like You (Remix)”………….Neeraj Shridhar, Anoushka, Ishq Bector

“Jo Gumshuda” love song :

Review of the film :

• Mission Istaanbul received negative reviews from mostly all critics.
• Bollywood Hungama critic Taran Adarsh gave it 1.5 out of 5 stars.
• The Hindu stated that Mission Istaanbul has no sting.
• Rediff.com gave it 1 star.

Box office collection of the film :

Filmed Opened well at the Box office but unable to sustained.

• First Day………….rs. 1.18 crores
• Saturday………….rs. 1.21 crores
• Sunday……………rs. 1.47 crores
• First Weekend………rs. 3.86 crores
• Monday…………………rs. 0.50 crores
• Tuesday………………..rs. 0.42 crores
• First Week…………….rs. 5.36 crores
• Lifetime India (net)……rs. 7 crores
• Worldwide Gross………rs. 9 crores

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