In the Dasht-E-maadar desert in kotha Afghanistan, inside a Taliban camp, ISI official Col. Huzefa is interrogating a captured man presumed to be a RAW agent. The man gives details of RAW's operations in Afghanistan in exchange for money and safe passage across the border. He betrays his colleague, Major Rajan, who has also infiltrated the camp. This is only a ruse, as both overpower their captors and fight their way out of the camp. Along the way, they rescue a girl called Farah.
It turns out that a group of rogue ISI colonels are planning an attack on India. In Morocco, Kazan locks the detonator with a password, and hands it over to Colonel, who has arrived in Morocco. Iram finds out Vinod is a RAW agent, both agree to work together to prevent the nuclear device from falling into the wrong hands. 'Colonel' captures Ruby and asks her to reveal the whereabouts of Agent Vinod. Vinod is attacked and admitted to a hospital. He clears his way out of the hospital to find Iram.
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The film was banned in Pakistan as it made references to a section of ISI's involvement in Jihadi groups and terror activities.[32] To this, Khan responded, "This is a realistic kind of a thriller. We have shown that there are some negative elements in Pakistan towards India and their Censor have a problem showing that. We have shown a few most-wanted criminals, those that are harboured in Pakistan, which is a known fact. May be they have taken offence to that. But ultimately we want a RAW agent to win and baddies to lose. If they are uncomfortable with that then they should publicise the fact that they are banning Agent Vinod in Pakistan".[33]
Khan plays agent Vinod, dubbed ''India's James Bond.'' He is a spy from India's Research and Analysis Wing, which has spent decades in a real-world cloak and dagger struggle with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI.
Can Saif Ali Khan be India's Bond or Bourne? The query crossed my mind, more so because the Hindi film industry hasn't come up with a secret agent movie that's as memorable as the Hollywood franchisees.
Sriram Raghavan bestowed Saif with an absolute switch in EK HASINA THI. An unblemished look, an unsullied representation. It showcased the aptitude that the actor possesses, which, unfortunately, wasn't tapped in his earlier movies. With AGENT VINOD, Sriram and Saif embark upon a spanking new journey, sorry mission, to come up with a spy film. A chic James Bond kind of a Hindi film.
Back in 1977, a film on a secret agent called AGENT VINOD, starring Mahendra Sandhu, proved a surprise hit. Three-and-a-half decades later, Sriram attempts a motion picture of the corresponding sort, retains the title, but goes in for a new plotline all in all. Besides, of course, the new AGENT VINOD is uber-cool, vastly stylized and has been filmed at panoramic locales across the globe. Also, it's a well packaged secret agent movie.
The story begins with a series of seemingly unconnected events, all over the globe. In Uzbekistan, an ex-KGB officer is murdered. In Cape Town, a group of international business tycoons discuss a rumor that the dead KGB officer had a nuclear suitcase bomb hidden away. In Moscow, an Indian secret agent is exposed. The agent is shot dead while trying to send a code red message to India. In India, the head of RAW sees the incomplete message. All it contains is a number 242. Enter Agent Vinod.
Vinod [Saif Ali Khan] is the kind of agent who first kicks the door open and then finds out what's behind it. His unconventional approach puts him in perilous circumstances, but he manages to get the decisive leads. Vinod is sent to Moscow to investigate why his colleague was killed. Vinod finds out that a Russian money launderer Abu Nazar [Ram Kapoor] has sent US$ 50 million to a contact in Morocco, for an operation against India.
One expects AGENT VINOD to be an elegantly defined story with an exquisitely structured screenplay [writers: Sriram Raghavan and Arijit Biswas], with some unanticipated betrayals, sensational locations, slick action but with the absence of gadgets. If that's precisely the way you are looking at AGENT VINOD unleashing before your eyes, you've got it right. Contrasting the spy movies made in Bollywood, this one's truly bona fide and swanks of a pertinent plotline. What keeps you tongue-tied is the fact that the movie keeps you on the periphery for most parts, as the Agent takes on a whirlwind tour across continents, tackling the thorny and multifarious situations with flourish. As a matter of fact, besides having a bit of Bond and Bourne, there's a bit of Hitchcock and also traces of Tin Tin in this movie.
After making films like EK HASINA THI and JOHNNY GADDAAR, Sriram Raghavan returns with yet another intelligent thriller that doesn't disrespect the astuteness of the moviegoer. As a matter of fact, you need to watch the narrative unfurl with a vigilant mind, since this is one of those films that demands your concentration. While I have listed the several winning points of this film, I'd like to add that Sriram himself is the vital USP of this endeavor. His method of exemplifying the anecdote is way too varied from the prototypes. Drifting away completely from the Bond movies of swanky cars and cool babes, this one is more about electrifying thrills along with a lot of wit and intelligence and a garnishing of the desi tadka. The nuggets of the quirky humor injected in the plot work incredibly well.
Not a particularly well-written James Bond wannabe, but not without some entertainment value either. I watched this solely because Kareena Kapoor is in it and I watch everything she's in, and I've watched worse movies for her than this one. I wish her character had more of a femme fatale vibe than she ultimately ended up having, but alas. There are a few pretty solid scenes in this movie (the one-shot hotel gunfight as the blind pianist performs is a true highlight) as well as a few that fall very short. As others have noted, this movie has a couple of endings, and all of them are anti-climactic...
To set a baseline, I would like to start off saying I am new to posting stuff here or rather anywhere when it is about movies. But I did like the film more than any other spy movie that was ever made in hindi. I guess that is why I take the pain of replying to this.
Kapoor, who belongs to the first family of Bollywood, spoke about how he has been a part of the industry for 84 years. We (the industry) made 91 silent films before we started making talkies. After that we made mythological films. The trend changed when India won its independence. We were a young budding nation with lot of problems, and this transcended into socially-relevant cinema. When I came into films, the audience was extremely forgiving, and most of us ended up doing three to four films in the lost-and-found genre. Now, when I see my son Ranbir working, I see the competitiveness prevalent in the industry.Nihalani, one of the pioneers of the parallel cinema movement in India in the '80s, added that storytelling, over years has also been influenced by the source of funds. I made films for NFDC with zero interference. I could do whatever I wanted.While the narrative of storytelling has evolved over years, Faisal and Kashyap believe that trends keep recurring in Bollywood. Talking about his portrayal of the common man in his film Do Dooni Chaar, Faisal said, The common man was the protagonist during the phase when Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee made their movies. Somewhere in between, he got lost and it seemed that putting a visa stamp on your passport was crucial to making any film, even if it meant going to Brunei or Maldives. But now, the common man has been rediscovered."Kashyap, who has been attributed for getting the rural setting back in vogue in Bollywood with his directorial debut Dabangg, added, "I realised in the last 10 years that Indian villages and small towns had fallen off the map. Nobody was talking about them. So I decided to take the path which nobody was treading. The success made me realise that diversity is a must."While storytelling has majorly been influenced by the changes in society, Nihalani believes that technology has played a great part too.Kapoor added, "Theatres have improved even in B or C centres in terms of basic facilities such as sound system. This has attracted the audience and helped the business. These changes have also introduced the terminology of Bollywood where R100 crore films have now become the latest trend. "When I started making Agent Vinod, the R100 crore' concept wasn't predominant," said Raghavan, but by the time I finished, everyone was using that phrase.While cinema has evolved across India, Bollywood has emerged as the strongest voice from India, which is no mean feat. Talking about the survival and success of Bollywood in the last 100 years, Basu pointed out, We are the only film industry which is independent of other film industries. All other film industries across the world rely on Hollywood movies. They plan their local releases depending on the release dates of Hollywood movies so they don't clash. Bollywood has its own personalities and we are proud of it." Sippy seconded Basu, adding that although Bollywood has seen a few dark years, it has constantly emerged from the crisis.This is the best period for Indian cinema as the younger generation and the older generation are in tandem today more than they ever were.if ( fe_check_is_mobile() == true ) jQuery("googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1435909828675-0'); );").insertAfter(".runningtext p:eq(1)"); create_vuukle_platform('2e5a47ef-15f6-4eec-a685-65a6d0ed00d0', '1023907', 0, 'archive', 'A brand new script - The Financial Express'); if( false == fe_check_is_mobile() ) document.write(''); else document.write('');var addthis_config = "data_track_addressbar":false;var addthis_share = "passthrough": "facebook": "app_id": 1672404616366149, "redirect_uri": "https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/archive\/a-brand-new-script\/1023907\/?fe_share=fb" , "twitter": "via": "FinancialXpress" ;googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1467717901670-0'); );googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1467717901670-7'); );Tweets by FinancialXpress googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1467717901670-2'); );googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1467717901670-3'); );googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1467717901670-8'); );googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1467717901670-9'); );
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