Osama Bin Laden is coming soon to a movie screen near you. The Al-Qaeda leader is the subject of a Bollywood film “Tere Bin Laden” (“Without You Laden”), the story of an imaginative young television journalist who turns an encounter with a lookalike of Laden into his ticket to fame. The journalist, played by Pakistani pop artist Ali Zafar, films a video with the lookalike, which goes viral quickly, and attempts to use his 15 minutes of fame to migrate to the United States after past attempts at getting a visa failed. “The film looks to give a fresh perspective to the repercussions of 9/11 that a lot of people are facing but I want to do it through humour,” director Abhishek Sharma told Reuters. “When he comes across a lookalike of bin Laden, he hits upon the idea of making a video. That video makes him famous and ironically, he has to use the US's biggest enemy to create a favourable impression of himself,” Sharma said. He says the low-budget “Tere Bin Laden”, which opens across India on July 16, is not a serious film, and expects the audience to also treat it that way. “It's a satire, and a mad comedy. I don't want to preach.”
