‘Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive’ over did ‘The Shaukeens’, but couldn’t match up to the original ‘Tere Bin Laden’. The plot of the film is quite interesting and different as it rides on its sequel. It starts with a school graduate dying to walk away from his family business of ‘Jalebi’ in old Delhi. In the sequel, the script should have been convincing enough to the audience to feel the need of it. The jokes were quite funny but the lack of consistency inverted the graph of TBL2. t seemed that Abhishek Sharma intentionally disintegrated the level of production. The movie depended solely on the writing, keeping in mind the facts about the socio-political nuances.Manish Paul’s performance is satisfactory. Don’t expect too much from the sequel, however, it will give you a good laugh.

Tere Bin Laden – Dead or Alive is way better than The Shaukeens, but doesn’t match the wit of the original. The film is very self indulgent. Everybody gets their share of screen time. The theme of Tere Bin Laden 2 is hugely dependent on its writing and the director’s understanding of political and social nuances, but it seems Sharma has deliberately toned down his film. You can still watch Tere Bin Laden: Dead or alive, but it won’t give you the same punch as the original. Keep your expectations low and you may come out of the movie hall laughing.

It’s Osama time again, folks. Six years back, the film was called, simply, ‘Tere Bin Laden’. Now it’s got a tagline attached: ‘Dead Or Alive’, so our Bin Laden lookalike Pradhuman aka Paddy Singh is made to work doubly hard, because he is of great use in either state, depending upon whether you are the first Black President of the Yewnited States looking to be re-elected, or a bearded terrorist keen to show the world that his beloved leader is still around. There’s more packed into the script this time around, and a little more energy and pace. But the problem of repetition persists. ‘Tere Bin Laden’, Part 2, generates start-up potential, some smiles, some laugh-out-loud lines, but it keeps petering out.

Sequels always run the risk of falling short of expectations. In 2010, Tere Bin Laden emerged as surprise hit with its abundant laughs and particularly smart writing. This time director Abhishek Sharma is hardly able to conjure up an equally enticing story. The chuckles are fewer and the wit from the first part is nowhere to be seen. The humour is rather low-IQ and most gags are far from enjoyable. The laughs are fewer and restrict themselves primarily to the first half. A certain Olympia-e-dehshat is the only one scene that will have you in splits. What this oversimplistic film lacks, is sharp writing. It is entertaining in parts but once the curse of the second hour strikes, the wicked streak takes a backseat. Tere Bin Laden : Dead or Alive, misses the spunk of its prequel.