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Ali
Zafar ... Ali Piyush Mishra Sugandha Garg Pradhuman
Singh ... Noora Barry John Raahul Singh Seema
Bhargava Nikhil Ratnaparkhi Chinmay Mandlekar Chirag
Vohra Rahul Singh
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Tere Bin
Laden
'Tere Bin
Laden'
re-titled as 'Tere Bin'
Story:
Ali, an ambitious young reporter, working in a
downmarket TV news channel, is desperate to get to Amreeka, any which
way.
Having had his visa rejected several times, he embarks on a novel plan
to enter
El Dorado. He makes a fake video of Osama bin Laden, using a look-alike,
Noora,
who happens to be a humble chicken farmer and hopes this would be his
ticket to
the US. Alas, the best laid plans always
backfire....
Movie
Review:
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.
Leading
the goofball team is veteran
Piyush Mishra as the cranky TV producer who heads a TV channel that goes
by the
dubious name of `Danka' (or something like that). He sends his
newshounds on a
punishment assignment: to capture the crowing of cocks in a
cock-a-doodle
competition.
Funny Osama
in 'Tere Bin
Laden'
Yawn! says smartypants, Ali (Ali Zafar) who
anyhow
sleepwalks his way through most of his assignments because he's waiting
for the
big kill: an ace reporter's job in the hot and happening US media. But
the
routine assignment metamorphoses into a dream assignment when Ali
discovers a
chicken farmer who happens to be an Osama clone.
The rest is easy:
an ambitious make-up artist (Sugandha Garg), a maverick dubbing artist
who can
speak Arabic (Rahul Singh), loads of hungry-for-TRP TV channels and a
gullible
and godawfully stupid Amreekan government are all that it takes to give
the
world its new breaking news story.
The actors are having a ball,
that's evident. The scriptwriter (Abhishek Sharma) is just loving it:
making
digs on America's war against terror. And the viewers are in for some
breezy
fun. Savour the satire.
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Lamhaa opens in the year 2009 and talks about the separatist protest movements that initiated in Kashmir which (it repeatedly claims throughout the film) had started ‘18 years’ back in the year 1989. Not only does the film goes appallingly wrong with elementary mathematics, but also adds to the audience ambiguity through its constantly changing geographical boundaries and jumbled history.
For Vikram, spying seems to be a child’s play. He sneaks into the police commissioner’s office in broad daylight as if playing hide-and-seek with him. He walks into a seamster’s shop who gives him ‘tailor-made’ tips and tracks terrorist identity by just having a look at their jackets. (Was the writing conveniently inspired by the investigative tele-series CID?) For no good reason Vikram keeps stalking and supporting Aziza in her attempts. Thankfully (though the background score gives a slight hint) a romance track is averted.
Through all his lackadaisical spying, Vikram finally learns that the neighbouring country is going to repeat the assault of 1989 on a larger scale. So as you look forward to a striking climax, you are sorely disappointed to discover that the supposedly colossal conspiracy merely ends up being a bombing plan on a political rally, seen for a zillion times in Hindi films. The intended twist in the plot is predictable and the convenient culmination is void of any dramatic moments.
It takes time to absorb the wide-ranging characters and their varied conflicts in the film and yet you do not understand all of them. Vikram is specifically chosen for the Kashmir operation though he doesn’t belong to the region.
Yet there is no background account to justify his character, making him look shallow. In the initial reels, one tends to get confused if Anupam Kher’s Haji is a protagonist or antagonist as he keeps juggling between the two identities through the film. His fallout with Aatif is merely mentioned in a flashback scene. And then there is Mahesh Manjrekar playing Peer Baba in a cameo who remains quite undefined through the film.
The pacing seems too hurried and the restless editing by Ashmith Kunder and Akshay Mohan barely allows you to breathe, gasp, feel, absorb, react or relate. The incessant disturbing camera movements by cinematographer Jamie Fowlds annoy you more than having an effect. Mithoon’s soothing musical score has its charming moments.
The performances are not bad but don’t rise above the script. Sanjay Dutt plays his age but his character seems half-baked. Bipasha Basu is decent in a different role. Kunal Kapoor adds grace to his character but sounds meek in delivering political speeches. Anupam Kher is effective.
For the common man, the politics of Kashmir has often been a complicated topic. This film doesn’t make it any simpler. Lamhaa doesn’t enthrall beyond a few interesting moments.
@Hashim
Amla "Nothing bad can happen to us
if we're on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it." Hashim
Amla, the South African batsman, reassures himself as he boards a
flight
@yaseer
hameed "Sometimes you get so
engrossed in watching batsmen like Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar
that you lose focus on your job."
"To Sachin, the man we all
want to be" - What Andrew Symonds wrote on
an aussie t-shirt he autographed specially for Sachin
Beneath
the helmet, under that unruly curly hair, inside the cranium, there is
something we don't know, something beyond scientific measure. Something
that allows him to soar, to roam a territory of sport that, forget us,
even those who are gifted enough to play alongside him cannot even
fathom. When he goes out to bat, people switch on their TV sets and
switch off their lives" BBC on Sachin
But
the finest compliment must be that bookmakers would not fix the odds -
or a game - until Tendulkar was out.
"Tujhe pata hai tune kiska
catch chhoda hai?" Wasim Akram to
Abdul Razzaq when the latter dropped Sachin's catch.
@Brian
Charles Lara Sachin is a
genius. I'm a mere mortal.
@Mark
Taylor "We did not lose to a team
called India...we lost to a man called Sachin" -
Mark Taylor, during the test match in Chennai (1997)
@M.
L. Jaisimha: "The more I see of him the
more confused I'm getting to which is his best knock."
@McGrath
"The joy he brings to the millions of
his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and
the expectations and his innate humility -all make for a
one-in-a-billion individual"
@Wife
Anjali "I can be hundred per cent
sure that Sachin will not play for a minute longer when he is not
enjoying himself. He is still so eager to go out there and play. He will
play as long as he feels he can play,"
by
HAYDEN - i feel is the best SACHIN QUOTE he said "I
HAVE SEEN GOD, HE BATS AT NO.4 FOR INDIA"
My
Personal Best "Even my father's name is
Sachin Tendulkar." Tendulkar's
daughter, Sara, tells her class her father's name after the teacher
informs them of a restaurant of the same name in Mumbai
KUMBLE
: I am fortunate that I've to
bowl at him only in the nets!
@
shahrukh quoting Shahrukh from an interview Que:
Who do you think as most important celebrity ? Shahrukh: There was a
big party where stars from bollywood and cricket were invited.
Suddenly, there was a big noise, all wanted to see approaching Amitabh
Bachhan. Then Sachin entered the hall and Amitabh was leading the
queue to get a grab of the GENIUS!!
@Navjot
Singh Sidhu India me aap PrimeMinister ko
ek Baar Katghare me khada kar sakte hain..Par Sachin Tendulkar par Ungli
nahi utha Sakte..
@waqar
younis He can play that leg glance
with a walking stick also .
A banner once said- '
I WILL SEE GOD WHEN I DIE BUT TILL THEN I WILL SEE SACHIN ' that
quiet defines Sachin-The greatest.
Sachin
Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many
medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the
world -- Allan Donald
And i remember reading in one of
Allan Donald's interview. This interview was in Cricket Talk and 7-8 yrs
ago.
I was bowling to Sachin
and he hit me for two fours in a row. One from point and the other in
between point and gully. That was the last two balls of the over and the
over after that we (SA) took a wicket and during the group meeting i
told Jonty (Rhodes) to be alert and i know a way to pin Sachin. And i
delivered the first ball of my next over and it was a fuller length
delevery outside offstump. And i shouted catch. To my astonishment the
ball was hit to the cover boundary. Such was the brilliance of Sachin.
His reflex time is the best i have ever seen. Its like 1/20th of a sec.
To get his wicket better not prepare. Atleast u wont regret if he
hits you for boundaries.
Peter Rebouck - aussie journalist
On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there
was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes
as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers,
railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete
the century. This Genius can stop time in India!!
NKP
Salve, former Union Minister This was when he was accused of ball
tempering "Sachin cannot cheat. He is to
cricket what (Mahatma) Gandhiji was to politics. It's clear
discrimination."
Andy Flower: There
are 2 kind of batsmen in the world. One Sachin Tendulkar. Two all the
others.
According to ancient history, a grouping of seven islands comprising
Colaba, Mazagaon, Old Woman's Island, Wadala, Mahim, Parel, and
Matunga-Sion formed a part of the kingdom of Ashoka the Great of
Magadh, ironically in North India.
The Bhaiyas and Biharis whom the Thackerays accuse of being outsiders
in Mumbai, come from the region, which was a part of Ashoka the Great's
empire.. We judge everything according to history and the history of
Mumbai proves that its earliest known ownership was with a North Indian.
The seven islands of Mumbai passed through many hands, the sultans of
Gujarat, the Portuguese and the British. Every ruler left behind proof
of residence in Mumbai.
The Mauryans left behind the Kanheri, Mahakali and the caves of Gharapuri more popularly called Elephanta.
The sultans of Gujarat built the Dargahs at Mahim and Haji Ali, the
Portuguese built the two Portuguese churches, one at Prabhadevi and
the other St Andrews at Bandra.
They built forts at Sion, Mahim, Bandra and Bassien. The Portuguese
named the group of seven Islands 'Bom Baia', Good Bay. The British
built a city out of the group of seven islands and called her Bombay.
The original settlers of the seven islands, the Koli fishermen,
worshiped Mumbaidevi, her temple still stands at Babulnath near
Chowpatty. The Kolis called the island Mumbai, 'Mumba, Mother Goddess'.
In 1662, King Charles II of England married the Portuguese Princess
Catherine of Braganza, and received the seven islands of Bom Baia as
part of his dowry. Six years later, the British Crown leased the seven
islands to the English East India Company for a sum of 10 pounds in
gold per annum. It was under the English East India Company that the
future megapolis began to take shape, after the first war for
independence Bombay once again became a colony of the British Empire.
History has forgotten this but the first Parsi settler came to Bombay
in 1640, he was Dorabji Nanabhoy Patel. In 1689-90, a severe plague
epidemic broke out in Bombay and most of the European settlers
succumbed to it. The Siddi of Janjira attacked in full force. Rustomji
Dorabji Patel, a trader and the son of the city's first Parsi settler,
successfully defeated the Siddi with the help of the Kolis and saved
Bombay.
Gerald Aungier, Governor of Bombay built the Bombay Castle, an area
that is even today referred to as Fort. He also constituted the Courts
of law. He brought Gujarati traders, Parsi shipbuilders, Muslim and
Hindu manufacturers from the mainland and settled them in Bombay.
It was during a period of four decades that the city of Bombay took
shape. Reclamation was done to plug the breach at Worli and
Mahalakshmi, Hornby Vellard was built in 1784. The Sion Causeway
connecting Bombay to Salsette was built in 1803. Colaba Causeway
connecting Colaba island to Bombay was built in 1838. A causeway
connecting Mahim and Bandra was built in 1845.
Lady Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, the wife of the First Baronet Jamsetjee
Jeejeebhoy donated Rs 1, 57,000 to meet construction costs of the
causeway. She donated Rs. 1,00,000 at first. When the project cost
escalated and money ran out half way through she donated Rs 57,000
again to ensure that the vital causeway was completed. Lady Jamsetjee
stipulated that no toll would ever be charged for those using the
causeway. Today Mumbaikars have to pay Rs 75 to use the Bandra-Worli
Sealink, connecting almost the same two islands. Sir J J Hospital was
also built by Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy.
The shipbuilding Wadia family of Surat was brought to Bombay by the
British. Jamshedji Wadia founded the Bombay Port Trust and built the
Princess Dock in 1885 and the Victoria Dock and the Mereweather Dry
Docks in 1891. Alexandra Dock was built in 1914.
A Gujarati civil engineer supervised the building of the Gateway of
India. The Tatas made Bombay their headquarters and gave it the iconic
Taj Mahal Hotel and India's first civilian airlines, Air India. The
Godrejs gave India its first vegetarian soap.
Cowasji Nanabhai Daver established Bombay's first cotton mill, 'The
Bombay Spinning Mills' in 1854. By 1915, there were 83 textile mills in
Bombay largely owned by Indians.
This brought about a financial boom in Bombay. Although the mills were
owned by Gujaratis, Kutchis, Parsis and Marwaris, the workforce was
migrant Mahrashtrians from rural Maharashtra. Premchand Roychand, a
prosperous Gujarati broker founded the Bombay Stock Exchange. Premchand
Roychand donated Rs 2,00,000 to build the Rajabai Tower in 1878.
Muslim, Sindhi and Punjabi migrants have also contributed handsomely to Mumbai.
Mumbai is built on the blood and sweat of all Indians. That is why Bombay belongs to all Indians.
Apart from its original inhabitants, the Kolis, everyone else in Mumbai, including Thackeray's 'Marathi Manoos', are immigrants.
The "Mumbai for Marathi Manoos" war cry has once again been raised to
shore up the sagging political fortunes of the Thackeray family.
When the Shiv Sena-BJP combine came to power in 1993, under the guise
of reverting to the original name they replaced Bombay with Mumbai.
I wonder when they will discard the anglicized Thackeray and revert back to their original Marathi surname Thakre?
This article was written on February 7, 2010 by Tushar Gandhi,
founder/president, Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, and the grandson of
Gandhiji.
