The journalist, played by Pakistani pop artist Ali Zafar, films a video with the lookalike, which goes viral quickly, and attempts to use his 15 minutes of fame to migrate to the United States after past attempts at getting a visa failed. “The film looks to give a fresh perspective to the repercussions of 9/11 that a lot of people are facing but I want to do it through humor,” director Abhishek Sharma told Reuters.

“When he comes across a lookalike of Bin Laden, he hits upon the idea of making a video. That video makes him famous and ironically, he has to use the US’s biggest enemy to create a favorable impression of himself,” Sharma said. Sharma says the low-budget “Tere Bin Laden,” which opens across India on July 16, is not a serious film, and expects the audience to also treat it that way. “It’s a satire, and a mad comedy. I don’t want to preach.”