A mad film that falls short of being truly madcap.
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Updated: 05 Feb 2022 8:05 pm
Starring: Ali Zafar, Barry John, Piyush Mishra
Directed by Abhishek Sharma
Rating: **
Tere Bin Laden is a unique Bollywood film in that it’s all about Pakistan. The characters, story, setting and lingo (great use of Punjabi spoken across the border) are Pakistani, which lends it a certain amount of novelty and freshness. Moreover, even in terms of the form and tenor, Tere Bin Laden takes off from where Pakistani comic serials, like Bakra Kishton Par, left.
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