The Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif show is mostly on rails
New Delhi:
It’s overlong, overheated and over the top. But is that the end of the story? No. Who expects a the tiger To change his stripes? In his third outing as superspy Avinash Singh Rathore aka Tiger, with a story by producer Aditya Chopra and a screenplay by Sridhar Raghavan, Salman Khan proves that scenes of an indomitable hero always get a lot of purchase. All kinds of perches and landing on his feet.
The star power of the lead actor comes in handy though Tiger d (eg send and unlike war) is gender-agnostic. Katrina Kaif is allowed almost as much action as the indomitable tiger, whose death-defying exploits return in an even bigger and more brazen form in the third installment.
It bears no repetition that the heroine, herself an average agent, gets a big action sequence dressed in a towel in a Turkish hammam as she goes head-to-head against a deadly Chinese agent and martial arts instructor (played by American stuntwoman- actress Michelle Lee). Providing two cooling loads. If nothing else, two spotless towels add an extra layer to the film.
The YRF spy universe is obviously not for those looking for a realistic, close-to-the-bones espionage thriller but for everyone else (whether you’re Salman and Swag) there’s plenty here. For good measure, the villain in this film isn’t just another scumbag, a Pakistani agent. He gives the hero a run for his money.
The bad guy never fails to announce his intention to wipe India off the face of the earth – that’s only to be expected – but he’s nothing more than a singularly antagonistic figure thanks to Emraan Hashmi’s writing and steady performance. up with
The action in the first half of the film is more of the stunt doubles than the two stars. In the second, things balance out and Salman and Katrina jump – yes, jump is the operative word – and another superstar joins the universe he had in his thriving genre earlier films.
Tiger dDirected by Maneesh Sharma, it takes just three sequences to spell out what it’s about It starts with Zoar (Katrina Kaif) origin story. It’s short, to the point and takes place in London at the turn of the millennium. The role also introduces a character who can quickly acquire a larger-than-life aura, if slightly less than the titular hero.
In Sequence 2, R&AW chief Maithili Menon (Revati) sends the tiger on a quick rescue mission called Mission Timepass. What happens when there is a ‘timepass’? Tiger d Be that as it may, it succeeds in achieving that goal – and then some.
Cut to the next sequence. Tiger has been accused of rescuing a land from which no Indian agent has ever emerged alive, insisting that he had nothing ‘personal’ in firing the agency’s all-weather, all-terrain men.
The rest of the story takes the personal proportions of Tiger and Zoya on one side and an ex-ISI agent Atish Rehman (Emraan Hashmi) on the other. The war is between truth and half-truth, between betrayal and redemption, between blackmail and resistance, between democracy and dictatorship, and between double agents and real comrades.
Its most significant aspect Tiger dIn Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Islamabad and outside a high-security prison in a mountainous part of Pakistan, Tiger, Zoya and their team fight not an entire nation but just a group of insurgents. The ISI and the army who are out to stage a coup against the country’s peaceful Prime Minister Nasreen Irani (Simran).
This is a significant reversal of a well-worn formula. Hindi action films often depict Pakistan’s rulers and its people as separate entities. In Tiger dA distinction is also drawn between a democratically elected ruler and rogues within the country’s army and intelligence agencies who are out to depose him.
A major extension of the surgical strike concept, the prime minister’s enclave in Pakistan’s capital – in its kitchen, its bunkers and its stables – staged many of the key action scenes on the country’s Independence Day.
The events leading up to Tiger, his wife and their companions, including Rakesh Chaurasia (Kumud Mishra) and Anand Rao (Anant Vidhat) form the crux of the story. The plot details what happens to the spy-couple’s son Junior (Sartaj Kakkar) and a pregnant Pakistani agent Shaheen (Ridhi Dogra in a cameo), with whom the two main characters are directly related.
I see Tiger d The occasional fallacy of logic and the monotony that lead to some action blocks demand a willingness to turn a blind eye, especially when they overstay their welcome. They all do just that sooner or later. Tiger d Would have been better served if the editing was sharper.
In the jungle where the tiger lives, the law is clear. Half measures are not welcome. Everything this espionage thriller combines is multiplied by at least three and delivered with abandon. Take it or lose it.
Tiger d A film where the action often overshadows the acting. The stunt choreographer, cinematographer (Anay Goswami) and the VFX team deserve endless praise. Each action high point contributes to the film’s pacing until, as noted earlier in this review, they are in danger of being snuffed out by the extra kills.
All of the technical razzmatazz that the film embarks on would have been for naught without the presence of one or two who could have added luster to the exercise, if only of a superficial kind. Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif never disappoint Tiger d Not as fleet as a cat on his feet.
Among the fireworks that are probably best suited for a Diwali release are at least two performances Tiger d More than just surround sound – Revathi and Simran deliver that. In Salman and Katrina’s One Show, they show that there’s a lot of value in the way the characters of the pre-Spy universe are differentiated.
Since spies are here to stay, as are explosions, gunfights, and hand-to-hand combat with the area, we might as well get used to it. Tiger d Can help that this is a film that stays on rails for the most part.
