The IIFA 2008 was kicked off yesterday at Bangkok in the presence of the Bachchan family, other top Bollywood actors and technicians and invitees from the government of Thailand and other celebrities from the host country.

'Mission Istaanbul' which is a joint production of Savile Row Co, Balaji Motion Pictures and Popcorn Motion Pictures Pvt. Ltd. is one of the movies to be premiered at the IIFA world Premiers which is one of the attractions in the total package of this years IIFA.

For this multi starrer film Vivek Oberoi has gone for an image make over adopting long hair.
The other actors in the film directed by Apoorva Lakhia are Zayed Khan, Shriya Saran, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Nikitin Dheer, Suniel Shetty and a new actress Shwetta Bharadwaj.

The music album of 'Mission Istaanbul' containing six songs for which T-Series holds the rights was released at the IIFA Weekend 2008 by the veteran hero of Bollywood Jeetendra who is also known as the jumping jack.

Four talented music directors which include a debutante have composed the music of the new film.

The experienced music maker Annu Malik, Shameer Tandon, singer and composer Mika and the new kid on the block Chirantan Bhatt used their skills to compose the songs.

'Mission Istaanbul' also marks the collaboration of Annu Malik and the famous Turkish singer Ege for the romantic song Jo Gumshuda.

The singer from Turkey has made this song very unique and touching with his soulful sound.

When Annu Malik who is known for his great soothing romantic tracks used the incredible talent of Ege, the result is a great song with an entirely new flavour that incorporates the elements of the Indian songs and the poignant singing style of the vocalist from Turkey.

Balaji Motion Pictures and PoPCorn Motion Pictures bought the rights of a very famous international song titled World Hold On, a music track that has the credit of being remixed in thirty six different versions till now to use it in 'Mission Istaanbul'.

Shameer Tandon used the original song to create a new version mixing Indian lyrics with Turkish sounds and coming out with a fantastic new song which still keeps the soul of the original track intact.

The song composed by singer/composer Mika is a typical Bollywood style song.
The song featured on Vivek Oberoi's character in the film just like the song Aye Ganpat that revolved around the character played by Vivek in 'Shootout at Lokandwala stays true to the music style of Hindi Cinemas.

The song is expected to turn out to be a hot choice of the youngsters.

The new music director Chirantan Bhatt tries to prove his mettle with the title track which is very vibrant and gels with the true attitude of 'Mission Istaanbul'.
Chirantan has also worked on producing a groovy item song titled as Nobody Like You.

'Shootout At Lokandwala' proved to be blockbuster and helped Vivek Oberoi to end his steak of box office duds at a time when he was desperately looking out for a super hit.
He certainly likes to see 'Mission Istaanbul' to rise more higher.

The actor who made a dashing entry into Bollywood with the super hit 'Company' directed by Ram Gopal Varma will be performing to the tune of the song Apun Ka Saath from the new film at the awards function on June 8 at IIFA Awards 2008.

Vivek's dreams of a hugely successful movie is all said to get a good thrust with the great music of 'Mission Istaanbul'