TIGER ZINDA HAI (TIGER IS ALIVE)
Recommended. Salman Khan's latest movie has attracted crowds. Indian mostly yet nearly the whole screening room was full. In Warsaw, Poland. Was it worth it? Damn, yeah! Based on true events - Indian and Pakistani intelligence agents getting Indian, Pakistani and Western hostages out of ISIS-occupied Ikrit in North-Eastern Syria. As if the story wasn't exciting enough, it's souped-up by Bollywood. Fantastic music provides accompaniment to adrenaline-pumping action. It has some brilliant lines like about Tiger having accomplished what the governments of India and Pakistan couldn't, i.e. both countries working together to a common goal. You also get radicalization in a nuthshell: a Middle Easterner educated in poetry, a former teacher in the US, rounded up to Guantanamo after 9/11 purely for his skin colour, is bound to turn into a terrorist. OK, the film doesn't mention ISIS or its leaders, but ISC and people's names and appearances are straight in your face. You'll easily put the fictitious pictures and names to real faces. The characters are drawn superbly. My favourite is the Indian who "for profit would sell his parents" and his economically grounded pleading with the caliphate leader to stop a beheading. Katrina Kaif plays Tiger's wife/special agent from Pakistan. The movie doesn't shy away from serious topics but does so in truly Bollywood entertaining way.
Seen courtesy of Cinema City.
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