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Directed by | Abhishek Sharma |
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Story by | Abhishek Sharma |
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Music by | Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy |
Cinematography | Santosh Thundiyil |
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Walkwater Media
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Distributed by | UTV Motion picture |
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98 minutes |
Country | India |
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Budget | ₹58 million (US$860,000) |
Box office | ₹150 million (US$2.2 million) |
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Compilation album by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy | ||||
Released | 21 June 2010 | |||
Genre | Film soundtrack | |||
Length | 25:31 | |||
Label | Pen Music | |||
Producer | Shankar Ehsaan Loy | |||
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Tere Bin Laden (English: Your Bin Laden) is a 2010 Bollywood satire film produced by Walkwater Media and written and directed by Abhishek Sharma. The film stars Pakistani pop singer Ali Zafar in the lead role as an ambitious young reporter, who, in his desperation to migrate to the United States, makes a fake Osama bin Laden video using a look-alike, and sells it to TV channels. Osama bin Laden was played by Pradhuman Singh. The film is a spoof on Osama Bin Laden as well as a comic satire on America's war against terror and the realities of the post-9/11 world. The film was released worldwide, except the United States, on 16 July 2010.
A sequel, Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive, was released in 2016.
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 agent's 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.