Updated on Friday, October 17, 2008, 00:00 IST

Spicezee Bureau

Mumbai, Oct 17: Jagmohan Mundhra’s ‘Shoot On Sight’, which released all over this Friday, is a fiction based on terrorism which has attempted to bring out the helplessness of innocent Muslims and the trauma that the individual goes through. The film completely lives up to the intensity that its title reflects, and works as a wake-up call for those sound asleep in their belief that terrorism is not anywhere close to their home.

Directed by Jagmohan Mundhra, the film stars actors par excellence Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Gulshan Grover and model turned actor VJ Laila Rouass. The movie also features a Pakistani actor Mikaal Zulfikar.

The plot is based on the aftermath of the infamous 7/7 bombings in London and the killing of Jean Charles De Menezes on the London Underground. Carl Austin’s screenplay does proper justice to the subject by showing view points of both the sides aptly.

‘Shoot On Sight’ unfolds the chaos in the life of Tariq Ali (a Muslim police officer in Scotland Yard). Tariq Ali, who was born in Lahore is married to an English woman. Tariq had been assigned the task of investigating and shooting the Muslim terrorists in the London underground. Later on Tariq is mistrusted by both his superiors and his fellow Muslims and this time, he comes under the scanner.

His innocence is proved. But, Tariq realizes that there was a terrorist cell operating in his own backyard. He understands that the right decision is always the hardest one to make!

A major part of the film's success goes to the actors. Om Puri as a radical clergy, Gulshan Grover as Naseer's butcher-friend, and the British actors, who play Naseer's colleagues at the precinct, they all add a wealth of credibility to Mundhra's tale of malevolence in a city that's outwardly a haven for healing.

And what finally gives the film a compelling edge, is Naseer, who has once again managed to merge himself into the character pitching the emotions at a level where they appear to be just so real.

Rating: Three cheers for this one!