Mission Istaanbul, which takes a contemporary, cautionary tale of terror, and its modern-day purveyors, and serves it up lathered with so much leftover masala that it's neither easily gobbled, nor thoughtfully chewed upon.

It makes a mockery of the tragic reality of global terrorism.

Mission Istaanbul is fantastically awful. It's a product of a Bollywood machine.

The film has been shot well in the exotic locales of Istanbul, but there isn't much that Vivek's long hair and Zayed's serious be-spectacled look can do to save the film from ending up as a thriller that doesn't actually thrill.