Let’s get to the point…. the movie starts at a promising note… a bomb blast and news about it.
Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan) and his wife Anjali (Sherya Saran) are electronic news media reporters. They are having troubled marriage due to his passion for news and career. In that endevour he gots an opportunity to work with Al Zahur channel in Istanbul. As opposed to Anjali’s wish, Vikas grabs the job and lands at Istanbul. Little that he knows, what is going to happen next.
In his introduction with his colleague i.e. Owais Hussain (Sunil Shetty) and his boss Ghazni (Nikitin Dheer), he is mentioned not to try to visit 13th floor which is guarded like a Big secret. Unfortunately, Vikas is directed to 13th floor by his fate and some incidences
Owais is killed by terrorist Khalil nazir (Shabbir Ahluwalia) and his photo is put on wall in office. Vikas desires to solve the mistery behind that. He is pushed in to it by an unknown person who later turns out to be Rizwan Khan (Vivek Oberoi).
Later after some incidences and unfolding of stories behind the wall and Rizwan, Vikas and Rizwan become friend and joins hand in the mission…. Mission Istanbul.
What happen next is the story which you can watch on screen.
Everything till now is very good. The movie grips the audience at start and we expect a world class action packed suspense thriller. But the writers soon ran out of creative juices and Apoorva Lakhiya is left in lull for proper story to tell. He demonstrated his spark when he has properly written first half, but he could not help much to save the 2nd half which goes down spirally to useless and ineffective fight scenes.
Can these guys not feel what is happening with the movie when they write or read the script? Don’t they prepare a story board? Can’t they prepare a low rez version of the movie using pre-production tools easily available around? Why do they have to realize their mistakes after the movie is released? Now a days movies are in profit always due to many kinds of rights (music, satellite, home video, etc).
I mean isn’t it real waste of money and time of the audience (its clear that there money is secure) ?
The first half is very complex to understand because there are many events coming out of the blue but due to the underlying suspense we are glued to the seats for some time. Once the things start to become clear, the movie sleeps through the director’s hand and he does not have much to tell or he fails to interestingly tell whatever he has in hand.
The production values from Suniel Shetty’s are top notch. We feel like we are going to witness an international level plot with Hollywood kind of sleep packaging, but the content lets down the movie.
On performance side, Vivek Oberoi gets a meatty role and he does justice to it. But his character does not have much once his story is revealed. Zayed sure has good acting talent and does his part well. Shreya Saran does her job well. Suniel Shetty is there for a small role and is ok. Shweta Bhardwaj has great body but she needs some more movies to brush up her acting skills. She has same kind of expression all through out the movie.
Shabbir Ahluwalia is strictly ok and so is Nikitin Dheer. But Dheer does have an impressive body which can help him be Indian Hulk. Even his face looks like that. Can someone do it?
The music has only one good song which is used at end title. So three music directors can not create great magic in this department. Also songs are used even when those are not needed. Old habits, die hard…. huh?
The other department which shines is Cinematography.
So there is nothing much in store for us to go and watch it in theaters.
BR Rating: *1/2 (extra half for few good scenes and cinematography)
BR Verdict: Below average.
BR Recommends: Wait till it comes on tv. Or even it won’t make any difference if you totally miss it.
