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Fatema H.Kagalwala 30 July , 2008

Film: Mission Istanbul

Director: Apoorva Lakhia

Producers: Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Shabbir Boxwala

Presenter: Popcorn Motion Pictures & Balaji Telefilms Ltd

_{Cast: Zayed Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Shreya Saran, Sunil Shetty, Nikitin Dheer, Abhishek Bachchan, Shweta Bhardwaj and others}

_{Rating: 1.5/5}

Mumbai: Whopping adrenaline rushes, some darr and then more jeet ahead of it, this was the sum total of promises made by Apoorva Lakhia’s latest, much-touted thriller Mission Istanbul. What we get in hand is a jamboree of mis-matched shots, a stagey love story and an action film with no action heroes.

Set against the backdrop of international terrorism Mission Istanbul is a potpourri of sorts. There is action, intrigue, terrorists screaming jehad jehad, love, song-dance routines, all in an amazingly formulaic pattern which is actually scientific.

Two heroes, one vulnerable and emotionally distraught, (Zayed Khan, playing an ace journalist, heart-broken husband) the other one hardened (Vivek Oberoi, surprisingly appealing though not...

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