Mission Istanbul is about a super TV journo who takes up a job with an Al Jazeera like sounding (Al Johara) news channel in Istanbul only to learn that the channel and its head are funding international terrorists including Abu Nazir, the worlds most dreaded terror monger. This journalist, Vikas, is going through a divorce but can’t get over his wife. Vikas learns of the nefarious doings of the news channel through a shady looking Turkish commando, Rizwan. When Owais, VIkas’ colleague, dies on the job Rizwan tells him that the channel bumps off anyone who wants to leave the job. Rizwan informs VIkas that the reason no one is allowed on the channel’s 13th floor because that is where the terror network operates from. So much so that this is where they make new Abu Nazir tapes and telecast them on their channel when in reality Rizwan killed Nazir in an attack. Things go through the usual motion and in the end Vikas and Rizwan kill everyone connected with Al Johara.
The film is so bad that one would never run of things to cry about. At a script level there is nothing gray in Apoorva Lakhia’s world, either you are good or you are bad. The treatment is so amateurish that your home videos would have more coherence. The script speaks volumes about the people behind it. No research is done and even a student film would try and infuse a little more authenticity in the proceedings. Picture this- a woman reveals her identity and says that she is, ‘RAW...Research and Analysis Wing, Indian Army’. Wow! Or for that matter when Vikas, now a wanted criminal, presents his case to the Indian Ambassador and she suggests that he turn himself in as he is in a foreign country. This conversation takes place inside the Indian Embassy and the guy is telling the Ambassador that the he possesses a data disc on the most wanted terrorist outfit in the world. For a country like Turkey which depends largely on tourism, the local police watches as a bunch of loony Indians run amok!
The director and the writer have failed to use Turkey as an element in the film. At a conceptual level I could have been convinced by Mission Istanbul but pray tell me why is everyone speaking in Hindi be it Srinagar, Kabul or Istanbul? The setting of the film in a place that is part Europe and part Asia, hence a confluence of two different worlds, linked by a common thread of terrorism could have be nicely explored. But then what the hell are we expecting from Apoorva Lakhia who has even lifted scenes from The Matrix! Someone please tell him that Matrix is six years old and the world has moved on!!!
As far as the execution is concerned for a better part of the film the shot taking is so stylized that it’s marriage with the horrendous background score ends up making this flick look like some bad video game. Things are bad in this film. Really bad. If I thought that Shootout At Lokhandwala was the pits then ladies and gents this is middle earth! How in the name of the lord you make a film about an international phenomenon called terrorism, set it in Turkey and have no Turkish actors!!!??? The chase sequences have jarring Indian sampled loops courtesy Amar Mohile. Someone present this freak a CD of The Constant Gardener. The OST has such a strong African flavor, where the film is based, and the music is by a Spaniard. Even the Indian embassy in Turkey has two Indians! What is the point of shooting Mission Istanbul in a style similar to Ek Ajnabi aka desi Man on Fire? The hyper-kinetic cutting and stylized shot taking is a royal pain and every location as well as character is treated the same way.
It is very clear from the film that the director has never set foot in a TV channel or seen how commandos work or how the intricate network of international terror works. There is not a single frame in the film that makes for interesting viewing. The acting is over the top and every one in the film tries to be cocky. Vivek Oberoi and Zayed Khan try to hard to be cool but you can’t blame them beyond a point. After all the writing doesn’t really give them an opportunity. Vikas can’t let go of his wife and even though he is divorced he keeps thinking about her. He witnesses his wife surviving a bomb blast on TV and is visibly shaken but strangely from that point onwards Vikas doesn’t bother getting in touch with wife. Even the wife doesn’t get around calling him but suddenly towards the end of the film Vikas calls her and lo and behold she is at the airport about to board a flight to Istanbul presumably to ‘save’ him! What can you say about a film in which a director, whose credentials include assisting Ang Lee and Woody Allen (which is a big thing in India), believes that loud music and snappy shots of the Blue Mosque would make a film work?
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