Tere Bin Laden: Dead or Alive opens with Sharma (Manish Paul) being anointed with the oils of his halwai dad's famous jalebis. Sharma wears a shirt that reads "ullu da pattha", and he widens his eyes appropriately enough at the bright orange sweets floating in a sea of fat - they symbolize the life he longs to escape. Sharma soon abandons his father's halwai business and moves to Mumbai to pursue his film-directing aspirations, but only to be confronted by problems as convoluted as those confounded jalebis.
He runs into Paddi (Pradhuman Singh), a struggling folk musician, and mo....