Tehran
Action Thriller Hindi
On 13th February 2012, a magnetic bomb exploded, destroying an Israeli embassy vehicle in Delhi. ACP Rajiv Kumar, leading the investigation, suspects more than what meets the eye. Amid political pressure and suspicions of an Iranian connection, he embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the truth, facing formidable adversaries.
| Cast: | John Abraham, Manushi Chhillar, Neeru Bajwa, Madhurima Tuli, Elnaaz Norouzi, Alyy Khan, Dinker Sharma, Hadi Khanjanpour, |
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| Director: | Arun Gopalan |
| Writer: | Ritesh Shah, Ashish Prakash Verma, Bindni Karia |
| Editor: | Akshara Prabhakar |
| Camera: | Evgeny Gubrenko, Andre Menezes |
All Guild Reviews of Tehran
Middling Movie About Middle East Woes
Tehran's dull treatment of a dry premise never makes us feel the complexity of the ongoing Middle East crisis nor the patriotic fervour in John Abraham’s voice
After holding back his heroic sentiments to a staggeringly subdued degree by his standards in The Diplomat, John Abraham flexes his patriotic chops in Tehran. This Arun Gopalan-directed geopolitical thriller, penned by Bindni Karia, Ritesh Shah and Ashish Prakash Verma plots a clash between personal revenge and political strategies using a true event – the 2012 Israel embassy car blast in New Delhi, Thailand and Georgia – as a trigger. Having turned the daredevil, deadpan government agent into his calling card, John comfortably takes on the role of an Indian special cells officer Rajeev Kumar determined to nab the perpetrators when an attack, prompted by Israel-Iran’s hostilities, results in the death of a street kid his daughter’s age on his own soil. As infuriating as this ‘collateral damage’ is, Tehran is never able to convincingly portray it as reason enough for his insubordination after his bosses withdraw their orders to nail the Iranian hand and pro-Palestine groups behind it.
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