Tere Bin Laden

Tere Bin Laden
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAbhishek Sharma
Screenplay by
Story byAbhishek Sharma
Produced by
  • Pooja Shetty Deora
  • Aarti Shetty
Starring
CinematographySantosh Thundiyil
Music byShankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Production
company
Walkwater Media
Distributed byBSK Network and Entertainment[1]
Release date
  • July 16, 2010 (2010-07-16) (India)
Running time
98 minutes[2]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹258 million (US$3.1 million)[3]
Box office₹1,150 million (US$14 million)[3]

Tere Bin Laden (transl. Without you Laden)[4] is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language satire comedy film produced by Walkwater Media and written and directed by Abhishek Sharma. In the film, an ambitious young Pakistani reporter, in his desperation to migrate to the United States, makes a fake Osama bin Laden video using a lookalike, and sells it to TV channels. Osama bin Laden was played by Pradhuman Singh. The film is a spoof on Osama Bin Laden as well as a comic satire on America's war against terror and the realities of the post-9/11 world.[5][6][7] The film was released worldwide, except in the United States and Pakistan, on 16 July 2010.

A sequel, Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive, was released in 2016.

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  4. ^ "Pakistan bans India Osama Bin Laden comedy". BBC News. 15 July 2010. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
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  6. ^ "Now, a Bollywood spoof on Osama Bin Laden". Rediff. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  7. ^ "A Bollywood debut for Osama bin Laden". Reuters. 7 July 2010. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2017.