Tere Bin Laden Movie Reviews

Tere Bin Laden is a delightful little gem of a film, based on an unbelievable premise, but treated with just the right mix of straight-faced gravity and furiously oddball humour. The writing is smart and original, with superb use of colloquial humour, the actors are mostly brilliant, while the direction by debutant Abhishek Sharma is sharp, giving the mid budget film a breathless busy pace. The production values are a bit low but it doesn’t matter

Tere Bin Laden is pure fun. It is commendable how the director has picked up a name and theme associated with so much severity and tossed it around to make a film that is innovative, hilarious and engaging all in the superlative. Writer Director Abhishek Sharma makes his debut with the film. The film revolves around Ali, an aspiring young Pakistani journalist who wants to go the US. After his application is repeatedly rejected

Osama Bin Laden. Just Google this name and I am sure, the results would be amongst the highest on the web. Post 9/11, terror has a new name and also a face. Now imagine Osama Bin Laden running a poultry farm and also running behind chickens. Imagine Osama Bin Laden ogling at a makeup woman. Imagine Osama Bin Laden urinating outside a television studio, but ready to hand-over his business card to the person urinating on the other side

Osama Bin Laden is back. He has put on weight and is looking younger with botox. And he is all set to attack you with some side-splitting moments in this crime con-medy Tere Bin Laden . Set in Pakistan, Ali (Ali Zafar) works as a television reporter for local news channel but wants to migrate to the US for better prospects. After being deported from US once and having his American visa rejected seven times, Ali approaches a travel agent

Karachi has its own version of yuppies, I am told. They call them ‘burgs’ after, I guess, the McDonald’s burgers. These rich young, western in their aspirations and outfit, forever live the American dream, are often scoffed at for their twisted orientation. The hero here is one such burg. And for a rare Indian film, his story is actually set in Karachi – Mumbai’s seaport equivalent of Pakistan.

Now this one's a real cornball. It maybe a shade amateur and have loads of rough edges to its canvas, if you compare it to a regular Bollywood comedy. But when it comes to content, the film scores above several of the recent laugh riots that may have done well at the box office, but definitely didn't have an intelligent script to boast of. Tere Bin Laden has both: a smart script and some smart acting.

Hear this. A small-time Pakistani reporter dreams of a bite from Big Apple. So what does he do? He sends a tape with an Osama lookalike threatening mayhem in the US. Tere Bin Laden is one of those whacked-out satires that sounds far funnier in theory than it finally is on screen... For no fault of the lead actor, one might add. Ali Zafar's comic timing could put some of our desi Khans to shame. Ali is a young actor

Tere Bin Laden has the merits to pick up by word of mouth, and appeal to the multiplex audience in the cities.