Mission Istaanbul is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film starring Vivek Oberoi, Shriya Saran and Zayed Khan.

Vikas then meets Dr. Lisa Lobo, at a party, who is headed to Istanbul to attend a medical convention.

Ghazni sends Vikas and Owais on an assignment to cover kidnapped journalists in one of terrorist Abu Nazir's terrorist-camps in Afghanistan.

The two meet Abu Nazir's brother, Khalil, who tries to scare Vikas by killing one of the kidnapped journalists and is later revealed to be Ghazni's right hand.

Reeling at this close encounter with terrorism and watching a brutal killing, Vikas arrives in Istanbul in a daze.

At the funeral, Vikas is approached by a former Turkish commando, Rizwan Khan, who hints that no senior employee has ever quit Al Johara and rattles off a list of Al Johara employees who had been killed in terrorist attacks within days of there being of rumours of their plans to quit or their resumes circulating in the job market.

Vikas discreetly runs a check on the names rattled off by Rizwan and discovered he was indeed telling the truth.

Five Al Johara reporters before Owais had either died in a car bomb explosion, abducted and killed or simply found dead.

He slowly notices that not everything is as simple as it looks in the offices of Al Johara, especially when he seems to bump into strangers whose faces he soon recognizes as suicide bombers in a couple of terrorist attacks.

Lisa helps them escape the Al Johara building and tells them that she informed Ghazni about Vikas' activities earlier so that he could trust her, but actually, she is working for RAW.

Ghazni kills Zahir (a man that came to retrieve the pen drive) and frames the trio for the murder and putting a bounty on their heads.

On one occasion, he meets the Indian Ambassador and tries to tell her the truth, but she does not seem to believe him because Ghazni is a very respected man in Turkey.

The soundtrack closely follows the theme of the film spanning a wide variety of music directors such as Mika Singh, Hamza Farooqui, Chirantan Bhatt, Shamir Tandon and Anu Malik.

"Sequences, set pieces and plot devices are liberally sourced from such Hollywood fare as Enemy Of The State, The Siege, The Matrix, Swordfish and the Hong Kong actioner Infernal Affairs.

One of which would be the blatant product and tagline placement for a fizzy drink done so horribly badly that I, for one, am never going to be able to pick up a can of the stuff again.