India’s Most Wanted movie review: Is this a thriller? It’s boring
Deccan ChronicleCast: Arjun Kapoor, Rajesh Sharma Director: Raj Kumar Gupta The story of a five-member team of intelligence officers embarking on a top-secret mission to track a wanted international terrorist is an interesting premise for a thriller. Raj Kumar Gupta, who has made interesting thrillers such as Aamir, No One Killed Jessica and Raid, tries to look at the mastermind behind serial bomb blasts in many Indian cities like Patna, Pune, Delhi and other cities that shook the nation between 2008 and 2012. His latest, India’s Most Wanted, is about most wanted terrorist Yusuf, and takes us back to the gruesome days of umpteen human lives getting lost in the blasts. It doesn’t take long for us to decipher that Yusuf’s character is actually based on terrorist Abdul Qureishi of the Indian Mujahideen, also called India’s Osama Bin Laden. Besides the opening lines in the film, the only time I craned my neck to not allow a single line to be missed was when there was a mention of Shah Rukh Khan’s name crops up, referencing it to the harrowing episodes of his getting detained in the US at the hands of immigration authorities a few years back.