Recently divorced from his wife, Anjali Vakil, ace Aaj Tak News Reporter, Vikas Sagar, decides to re-locate to Istanbul, Turkey, to work for Al Johara. Once there, he is met by fellow-reporter, Owais Hussain, is introduced to the CEO, Al Gazni, shown around the building, and instructed to keep away from the 13th floor. While covering an assignment in turbulent Afghanistan, Owais is shot and killed. Shortly thereafter, Vikas will find his life drastically changing after he meets with rebel ex-army officer, Rizwan Khan, finds out that Owais' death was deliberate, and must uncover the reason why employees who want to quit are killed; and why he is not permitted to attend on the 13th floor of his employer's building. A promising journalist Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan) is offered a position to head a controversial news station in Istanbul by its owner Owais Husain (Sunil Shetty). With this offer comes the promise of money and many other perks that make this offer hard to refuse, especially since Vikas is currently going through a very painful divorce with his wife Anjali (Shriya Saran). After working for the channel that in turn changes his life, he decides to quit, however it is brought to his attention by a Turkish commando Rizwan Khan (Vivek Oberoi), that others who have quit had been killed for knowing too much. It becomes a battle - which will win, the sword or the pen? The story revolves around a talented Indian journalist who lands up in Turkey and a commando on the trail of terrorists. Set predominantly in Istanbul at rubbish locations and it's really hard to tell that it is set in another place other than India. The screenplay is bad and it is about 2 hours and it felt like a 3 hour movie but the last 15 minutes saved the whole film. The casting may not have the top actors in the lead roles but they all acted quite well and it has to be Zayed Khan's best role to date, if he works hard then he can do a good job. He acted well after the bad performance in the garbage movies Cash & Speed. Vivek Oberoi has a very different look e.g. long hair and a darker tone which did suit his character. The film is directed by Apoorva Lakhia who also made Ek Ajnabee & Shootout at Lokhandwala, both of them were good but Mission Istanbul could have been better in so many ways. The soundtrack has different kind of songs for everyone. The best songs are Jo Gumshuda which is very romantic and Mission Mission which rocks. It is the first Bollywood film shot in Turkey but it could have been shot in different and better locations instead of the same place over and over again. The one word that came in my mind after sitting through half of the film is 'Rubbish'. Seriously what was the directors and actors smoking when they were doing this piece of rubbish. <br/><br/>This movie is good example of a bad writing, bad direction and bad acting. Even the action set pieces are disappointing. There are so many loopholes in the movie that one will stop counting them. For e.g. How does Vivek Oberoi speak fluent Hindi when he is actually a Turkish army officer ?? Or how does Zayed Khan who is a journalist fight dreaded criminals single handily ??<br/><br/>The performances are so wooden that you'll think you are in some furniture shop starting with Niktin Dheer, Suniel Shetty, Shwetha Bharadwaj and above all Zayed Khan. Only Oberoi redeems himself to an extent. Even the beautiful Shriya Saran can't redeem this bad film.
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