Osama in Bollywood?

Jaane kitne mulkon ki police Osama Bin Laden ko dhoond rahi hai, but the feared and famous man is going to be in a Bollywood film this July.

Well, not really, but there’s nothing wrong in settling for second best, right? Producer Pooja Shetty Deora’s upcoming flick, Tere Bin Laden, is all about Osama, but not really about him.

A young Pakistani reporter wants to go to USA, but his visa keeps getting rejected. As fate would have it, one day, he meets an Osama lookalike and decides to make a clip with the impostor, in a bid to sell it to a television channel as a scoop. But, as is expected, the FBI gets on his trail and the reporter is on a ride from there on. Directed by Abhishek Sharma, the movie has an unconventional cast that includes Pakistani prince of pop Ali Zafar, Chinmay Mandlekar, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi, Chirag Vohra and Piyush Mishra, among others.

After 2003, when theatre veteran Barry John starred in Roysten Abel’s Othello as Iago, he’ll now be seen in Tere Bin Laden, playing a pivotal role. Piyush Mishra too makes an appearance here after Gulaal, though he’s not given the music for this one.