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Starring:
Zayed Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Sunil Shetty, Shabbir
Ahluwalia, Shreya Saran, Abhishek Bachchan
Director:
Apoorva Lakhia
An action
thriller based on the subject of international
terrorism, Mission Istanbul is the story of a journalist
who gets his hands on top-secret information on dreaded
terrorists.
A talented journalist Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan) who would
go anywhere for a scoop to get an for an exclusive story
is offered the senior most position in a controversial
news station in Istanbul by the Senior producer Owais
Husain (Sunil Shetty). For this office has come with a
promise of big money and many other perks which is an
offer hard to refuse. Incidentally, Vikas is currently
going through a very painful divorce with his wife
Anjali (Shriya Saran) who is an equally aggressive
journalist, yet an ideal Indian housewife.
His friend cum guide Owais Husain is about to quit his
job and settle down with his Irish girlfriend.
Unfortunately, he is brutally executed by Owais Hussain
while being among the kidnapped journalists in one of
Abu Nazir’s terrorist camps in Afghanistan.
Now there is one Rizwan Khan (Vivek Oberoi) who tells
Vikas that no senior employee has ever quit Al Johara
without being killed. He also gives him a list of names
who have met the same fate as Owais. Vikas discreetly
runs a check on the names rattled off by Rizwan and
discovers he was true. Five Al Johara staffers before
Owais Husain had either died in a car bomb explosion,
abducted and killed or simply found dead. It sends a
chill through Vikas’s spine
Other Credits:
Produced by - Shabbir Boxwala,
Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Sunil Shetty
Cinematography by R.J. Gururaj
First Assistant Director - Shawn Aranha
Third Assistant Director - Raul Aranjo
Graphic Designer - Mihir Shah
Sound Department
ADR Assistant - Amit Ahire
Foley Recordist - Amit Ahire
Sound Designer - Baylon Fonseca
Assistant Camera - Lalit Sahoo
Music Director - Vikas Kohli
Publicity Designer - Nabeel Abbas
Directed by Apoorva Lakhia
Screenplay - Apoorva Lakhia, Suresh Nair
Story - Suresh Nair
Dialogue - Raj Vasant
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After coming to Istanbul Vikas’s initial impression of the
TV Channel Al Johara turns out to be in sharp contrast to
its notorious reputation. Here, he learns more about Abu
Nazir, who is described as “a one-man organization whose
existence revolves around a single person.” He has also
been cautioned - never ever to venture onto the 13th floor
of the building known as the Catacomb.
Al Johara is supposed to be a widely criticized mouthpiece
of terrorists. A dreaded terrorist most wanted by the
Interpol, Abu Nazir, is vociferous in his threat to wage
war against several countries, including India. A threat
he usually delivers via videotapes to Al Johara. Working
for the channel changes his life and then he decides to
quit.
Vikas realizes 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. The deeper Vikas digs into Al
Johara history and operations, the more questions crop up
in his mind. And then he makes the cardinal mistake of
straying onto the 13th floor.
Vikas has no choice but to ally with Rizwan after he makes
a shocking revelation that Abu Nazir is dead but being
kept alive by Al Johara through videotapes by using
digital images of the terrorist and doctoring old footage.
Having no other option, now Vikas steals the secrets
locked away on Al Johara’s 13th floor and becomes a man on
the run – wanted by Turkish cops, terrorists and the CIA.
He is forced to wield a gun and join Rizwan in a bloody
mission against international terrorism.
- Amarjeet
Cast:
Vikas Sagar - Zayed Khan
Rizwan Khan - Vivek Oberoi
Owais Hussain - Sunil Shetty
Anjali - Shriya
Shabbir Ahluwalia
Abhishek Bachchan
Shweta Bhardwaj
Nikitin Dheer
President George W. Bush - Brent Mendenhall
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