REVIEW : TIGER ZINDA HAI : BOLLYWOOD MOVIE

ENJOYABLE ILLOGICAL STORY BASED ON REAL INCIDENT 2014 :

Tiger Zinda Hai movie cast: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sajjaad Delafrooz, Anupriya Goenka, Kumud Mishra, Angad Bedi, Reduces/cuts downh Rawal, Girish Karnad 

Tiger Zinda Hai movie director: Ali Abbas Zafar 

Tiger Zinda Hai movie stars: 2.5 stars 

TIGER ZINDA HAI STORY: It's given great ideas from the real-life event of the rescue of Indian nurses held hostage in Iraq by terrorists and in control of affairs of the mission is Indian RAW agent Tiger (Salman Khan). It reunites us with Salman The Spy, who still makes a killer 'kaali' daal, with his loved 'biwi' Zoya (yes, the very one from Pakistan) and saves the world, with a little bit of help from both their friends. 

Tiger Zinda Hai also goes steps ahead in creating a channel between India and Pakistan: if their spies can bond in the face of a common enemy, why not the two nations? Only Bollywood can dare go down this 'aman-ki-asha' path with such overly dramatic, and given that Salman had successfully quickly moved across the border in 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan', why not do an encore this time around? 

Tiger's ex-boss Shenoy (Girish Karnad) tracks him down and wants him to rescue 25 Indian nurses who are held hostage at a hospital by a feared and hated terrorist organisation that has taken over Iraq. From here, it's a Salman Khan show all the way with his star power and screen presence near and threatening, very well helped by Katrina Kaif who jumps into the fight as 15 Pakistani nurses who are also held hostage with the Indians need to be rescued. The other USP of this mission is, that Tiger brings together Indian and Pakistani agents to fight terror in Iraq, for the benefit of people. And, not surprising then that there is a fair sprinkle of country-loving jokes, too. And all this is happening with oodles of swag and style. (Obviously!) 

I'd enjoyed the first one while it lasted. I had fun in this one too, once I got past the whole 'Come Children, Here's Make A Spy Story For You' explanatory mode of the flick, directed this time by Ali Abbas Zafar. Literally every plot point is picked up and repeated BEFORE it happens, so everything is easy peasy, comic-book-y. I shut my ears every time this happened, and returned only when the action re-started. Which, let me tell you, there is plenty of, and almost all well-planned-out, even if familiar.

With such a, the storyline needed to be far more interesting/more forceful and the editing much tighter. Needless to add, a lot of sequences fight against logic, but at the same time, there are many moments that will leave Salman Khan and action film fans impressed.