Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif in the song "Dil Diyan Gallan" for the movie Tiger Zinda Hai. Courtesy Yash Raj Films
Starring: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif
Director: Ali Abbas Zafar
4 stars
With 2017 being a year of flops, Tiger Zinda Hai was the big hit Bollywood needed to end the year on a high note.
After all, Bhai usually doesn’t disappoint, and this action-packed tale, based on real-life events has already got filmgoers rushing to theatres - this Thursday night showing was almost a full house.
Director Ali Abbas Zafar has taken the 2014 incident once 46 Indian nurses were control captive in Tikrit by suspected ISIL militants, to make the crux of the story. Despite the film being a sequel to 2012’s Ek Tha Tiger, it stands on its own and quickly reestablishes the characters from the previous outing.
Tiger (Salman Khan) lives together with his woman Zoya (Katrina Kaif) and their son within the Austrian Alps, removed from the life he light-emitting diode as a RAW (India’s foreign intelligence agency) agent, and her job as a West Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence agent. however once Indian capital is given every week to save lots of its at bay nurses from ISC (a terrorist organization sculptured on ISIL), Tiger is named on to try and do the duty. WHO desires a whole army to fight what's presumably the world’s largest terrorist organisation, once Bhai is on hand?
Everyone is aware of Khan can save the day, however the journey obtaining there's AN exciting one, with several twists and turns. whereas the plot keeps Khan at the centre of the action, the ensemble forged has their moments and really shine. Iranian actor Sajjad Delafrooz is astounding in his stoic performance because the ISC chief Abu Usman. Senior actors Paresh Rawal and Kumud Mishra play fascinating roles, and inject simply the correct quite humour.
Kaif as Zoya is fearless and brave, but apart from a couple of action sequences – one of which involves her saving a store from being robbed with a pen – she doesn’t have a very large role to play. She does have fabulous chemistry with (her real-life ex) Khan, and the pair seem very comfortable on-screen.Another unsung hero of the film is also the city of Abu Dhabi, which stands in for the war-torn Iraqi city of Ikrit.
A 20,000-square-metre plot in Khalifa Industrial Zone was set-up for the shooting, while the Arkan Cement Factory in Al Ain was used to shoot the oil refinery scenes in the film.
Khan is also briefly shown riding a quad bike in the Liwa desert, in a scene where he assembles the dream team for his mission.
Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan. AFP
Salman Khan, in fact shines as Tiger – the RAW agent UN agency goes higher than and on the far side what he's asked to try to to. it should seem to be a brave step, however to a logical viewer, it appears silly that he perpetually attracts attention to himself (so a lot of for being undercover!), and aims to wipe all the incorrect behavior of ISC in but per week, and not simply the duty he was sent to try to to.
While logic isn't a awfully vital think about Khan’s films, emotions definitely area unit, and also the director created guaranteed to hit all the soft spots – from nationalism to Indo-Pakistan bonding to a large number of inferior dialogues – that could be a good move, and guaranteed to usher in each Indian and Pakistani audiences.
Certainly one of the better Salman Khan movies in the recent times - watch Tiger Zinda Hai for its action sequences, even though it does feature one too many slow-motion scenes, excellent background score and performances by the ensemble cast.
