Agent Vinod (2012)

A series of seemingly unconnected events across the world leads to Agent Vinod undertaking a globe-trotting mission to discover why his colleague was murdered.

Director:

Sriram Raghavan

Writers:

Arijit Biswas (story), Sriram Raghavan (story)

Stars:

Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Adil Hussain

Cast

Credited cast:
Kareena Kapoor	...	Iram Parveen Bilal / Dr. Ruby Mendes / Josie
Saif Ali Khan	...	Agent Vinod
Adil Hussain	...	Colonel
Gulshan Grover	...	Tehmur Pasha
Ram Kapoor	...	Abu Nazer
Prem Chopra	...	David Kazaan
Ravi Kishan	...	Rajan (as Ravi Kissen)
Maryam Zakaria	...	Farah Faqesh
Shahbaaz Khan	...	Huzefa Lokha
Malika Haydon	...	Special appearance
Elena Kazan
Vasilisa Petina	...	Russian smuggler
Leeann Roberts	...	Moscow contact
Anshuman Singh	...	Jimmy
Dheerendra Dwivedi	...	Paan wala

Storyline

In Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhua, RAW Agent Vinod (Saif Ali Khan) is rescued by colleague Rajan (Ravi Kishan) from a rogue Pakistani army officer (Shahbaz Khan). In Russia/Uzbekistan, an ex-KGB Officer is tortured and murdered. In Cape Town, a group of international business tycoons discusses a rumor that the dead KGB officer possessed a nuclear suitcase bomb. In Moscow, Rajan is exposed and shot dead while trying to send a Code Red message to India. In India, the head of RAW sees the incomplete message containing just number 242. Agent Vinod undertakes a globe-trotting secret mission to discover the reason why his colleague, Rajan, was murdered. A series of twists and turns take Vinod across the globe to Morocco and Latvia, Karachi to Delhi and finally London where he discovers the actual conspiracy.

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Plot Keywords:

espionage | bomb | spy | threat | double agent | 

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Genres:

Action

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

23 March 2012 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Riga, Latvia

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$427,043 (USA) (23 March 2012)

Gross:

$632,446 (USA) (30 March 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Illuminati Films, Prime Focus

Technical Specs

Runtime:

157 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

In an unusual attempt for a Hindi movie, the whole Raabta sequence is shot in a single three plus minute single long shot. Cinematographer Muraleedharan told that they rehearsed for three days before shooting on steadicam. Close to fifty cues were given during the shot for its perfect execution. The lighting arrangement was inspired from documentary production as it was being shot on location.

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Connections

Features Clash of the Titans (2010)

User Reviews

When Style dominates Substance.......................

Stylish actors,wonderful locations,lots of side characters,wayward storyline all these sum up the context of Agent Vinod.Mark,I used only two positive things,which are actually the fairly good things in the movie,whereas the reason you should avoid it,is at the behest of the negative points.The movie seems as if cut-by-cut summary of 14 different movies(because of 14 different locations) with none of them providing apt understanding of the storyline and you end up asking yourself-"What was that?","Who was that?","Why was that?". Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor did justice to their character still the storyline & some poor editing made a mess of the movie.Songs were good still not upto the mark. All in all Agent Vinod is a stylish,sleek movie beyond a good and sensible storyline.If you find STYLE dominating SUBSTANCE as good,go for it,else its far far better to avoid it.