Tiger Is Alive (2017)
Tiger Zinda Hai (original title)
Inspired by real events, Tiger Zinda Hai is a sequel
to the blockbuster Ek Tha Tiger, and an espionage action thriller that
follows an adventurous rescue mission in Iraq.
Director:
Ali Abbas ZafarStars:
A dreaded terrorist organization run by Abu Usman in Iraq held's 25
Indian nurses and 15 Pakistani nurses has hostages in a hospital. Mr
Shenoy chooses Tiger for the mission whose missing since last 8 years
after he fell in love with ISI agent Zoya. Tiger and Zoya are happily
married with a son. Shenoy traces Tiger but he declines the mission
where Zoya convinces him as he loves his country then anything else.
Tiger leaves for the mission with his selected team and plan. To Tiger's
surprise Zoya to reaches to save the Pakistani nurses with her team.
The Raw and ISI team join hands to complete their missions by forgetting
the tensions between their countries. Making it a mission of humanity.
Country:
IndiaLanguage:
HindiRelease Date:
22 December 2017 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Tiger Is Alive See more »Box Office
Budget:
INR 1,500,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
INR 1,150,000,000 (India), 22 December 2017, Wide ReleaseOpening Weekend USA:
$1,801,000, 24 December 2017, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$4,878,546, 1 January 2018Company Credits
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Sound Mix:
Dolby DigitalColor:
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2.35 : 1Did You Know?
Trivia
Katrina Kaif had a narrow escape in Morrocco while shooting an action scene. See more »Soundtracks
The cheese-soaked Bollywood action blockbuster "Tiger Zinda Hai," a
big splashy movie where Indian and Pakistani special agents team up to
defeat Syrian terrorists holed up in Iraq, is retrograde, bloated, and
formulaic. It's also consistently sincere, energizing, and charming.
So it's not surprising that "Tiger Zinda Hai" is the second highest grossing Indian film of the year (after "Baahubali 2: The Conclusion"). This is, after all, the kind of chest-thumping, nationalistic spectacle that Peter Berg
has, at his best, successfully translated into big box office bank here
in America. "Tiger Zinda Hai"—translated from Hindi as "Tiger is
Alive"—is also the sequel to "Ek Tha Tiger," the #1 2012 movie at the
Indian box office. Why wouldn't it make a mint?
Arguably, what's most refreshing about "Tiger Zinda Hai" is that its
creators don't just pay lip service to their characters' humanitarian
values, and ideas like the makers of "Ek Tha Tiger" did. For starters,
"Tiger Zinda Hai" is essentially an ensemble film headlined by co-stars Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif.
This is no small feat since "Ek Tha Tiger" feels like a Salman Khan
vehicle that also features Kaif. Think of the way that the recent "Ocean's Eleven" films are pretty much "putting on a show"-style musicals with more casino heists, and less dancing. In those films, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon put their guys in place, and then let them do their respective things.
That's what "Tiger Zinda Hai" is like, only instead of robbing Al Pacino and Andy García,
these guys try to free a group of 25 Indian and 15 Pakistani nurses
from a group of Syrian/Iraqi fundamentalist kidnappers/terrorists.
Indian bureaucrat Shenoy (Girish Karnada) knows that only one man can
stop the terrorists, and their cartoonishly vindictive leader Abu Usman (Sajjad Delafrooz).
And that man is Tiger (Khan), a retired Indian super-spy who at the end
of "Ek Tha Tiger" eloped with, rather than neutralized, his Pakistani
super-spy wife Zoya (Kaif).
True to cornball formula, Tiger
returns from retirement—"somewhere in the Alps"—after briefly
considering the consequences of returning to a violent but efficient
life of shooting, stabbing, and exploding enemy combatants. Still, Zoya
and their young son Junior (Sartaaj Kakkar) give Tiger the green light,
so he goes ahead, and assembles a crack team comprised exclusively of
war movie cliches (The dynamite expert! The sniper! The
hacker!). Thankfully, Zoya and her own team of Pakistani spies join
Tiger mid-way through the film's hefty 165-minute proceedings. At this
point, the group's members put their political differences aside, and
vow to work together for the sake of, uh, all "humanity."
At this point, "Tiger Zinda Hai" has seemingly achieved toxic levels
of cheesiness. This is, admittedly, the kind of movie where women are
regularly terrorized for the sake of getting a rise out of audiences of
either gender, like whenever the kidnapped nurses gasp and shriek
audibly while bullets and rockets fly over their heads. This is also a
movie where Khan, without any ironic winking, uses his shirt as a gas
mask so he can give audiences two eyes-full of his
well-oiled, Texas-Steak-sized abs and pecs. That kind of self-loving
maneuver might as well have been swiped directly from the Old Man Tom Cruise playbook.
But
somehow, "Tiger Zinda Hai" transcends its inane nature through the
sheer force of its creators' convictions. This is, after all, the kind
of movie where Kaif gets four or five action scenes—instead of just a
token one or two—to flex her muscles. And those sequences are some of
the best in the film! Just look at the bit where Kaif launches Tiger,
his team, and Zoya up a ramp, and over a group of terrorists. Or how
about the scene where Kaif gets to dispatch a room full of baddies after
putting on a gymnastics, gun-and-sword-fighting, and wire-fu routine
that's just as rousing—and arguably more technically polished--than any
big set piece in "Wonder Woman."
This is also the kind of movie where even supporting characters like
selfish Indian mercenary Firdaus (Paresh Rawal!) and Zoya's fellow
Pakistani agents are given time and room enough to show off their
skills. See the the disarming moment—if totally contrived—moment that
Indian and Pakistani agents share talking about their favorite cricket
players.
So yes, "Tiger Zinda Hai" is an action movie with more
red meat than grey matter between its ears. It won't challenge your core
beliefs, or tell you anything daring or new (unless you think putting
aside your differences for humanity's sake is a radical concept). But it
is exceptionally good comfort food cinema because its creators take
their time here to deliver the kind of preposterous canned action poses
and improbably heroic feats that action filmmakers have been repackaging
and reheating since the '80s, if not earlier.
No, the biggest difference between "Tiger Zinda Hai" and other
recent proud-to-be-from-Country-X films like "Wolf Warrior II" (the
highest grossing Chinese film of this year, and of all time) and "The
Admiral: Roaring Currents" (the highest grossing Korean film of 2014,
and of all time) is that "Tiger Zinda Hai" is superior cheese. How could
you say no to a film that concludes with its two leads dancing joyfully
around Greek ruins while back-up dancers break-dance, twerk, and
pop-and-lock behind them? "Tiger Zinda Hai" is genuinely charming, and
that makes all the difference.
Thanks for reading and have fun watching movies.
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