On the whole, TERE BIN LADEN DEAD OR ALIVE doesn’t live up to the first part. It offers you patchy entertainment. At the ticket window it will not enjoy an overwhelming word of mouth. If you don’t have anything else to do, you can check it out else wait for the satellite premiere.n his excessively boisterous follow-up titled Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive, most of the original’s key characters, including the one-trick pony Pradhuman Singh, return for yet another misadventure. Except the jaunt is no fun in the absence of novelty, wit and spontaneity.If intended to be a spoof on the vagaries of filmmaking, Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive is completely devoid of whimsy.
And, if it aspires to be a satire, there’s little bite or ambition in its pedestrian approach and trivial resolutions. Absurdist comedies are always difficult to pull off because the line between the droll and the dreary is often dangerously thin. Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive, is seldom on the right side of that line. For want of the inspired writing that launched the franchise, it rests mostly on deadwood ideas that are as insubstantial as they are prone to rapid disintegration. Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive is best avoided unless a bunch of characters running around in circles is one’s idea of entertainment.The film again, in the garb of humour, suffers from illogical sequences. An aspiring filmmaker can’t distinguish between terrorists and filmmakers. An American agent masquerades as a filmmaker to get proof of Osama’s death, alas stupidly depends on a filmmaker to achieve his goals. And a chopper is attacked, crashes and everyone comes out unscathed. Cars fly too in a Rohit Shetty film but last I checked,
Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive was marketed as a satire rather than a no brainer of a comedy. The plot of an Osama doppelganger torn between Americans and terrorists is funny indeed but loses punch because of lazy writing and loud performances But the show belongs to Paul, Singh, Kher and Mishra. These four actors took it upon themselves to make this comedy a glorious rip-roaring affair. While Kher had a tendency to lean towards caricature, the relatively unknown Singh is spot on with his Punjabi accent and expressions. Paul does his bit to make this film immensely watchable. Watch this if you are in the mood for some light-hearted fun about war, terrorism and the highly exaggerated world of Bollywood.