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22 December 2017Hindi160 min

Tiger Zinda Hai

6.127 reviews
CriticsMixed

Bayesian avg · 27 critic reviews

7.5+ Exceptional · 6.5 Recommended · 5.0 Mixed

7.417 ratings
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8.0+ Exceptional · 7.0 Recommended · 5.5 Mixed

RAW agent Tiger/Avinash Singh Rathore returns from the dead to take on an international terrorist organisation but this time he has his wife Zoya by his side.

Critic Consensus

Critical reception for Tiger Zinda Hai skews mildly positive, with most reviewers acknowledging it as a functional masala entertainer that delivers for fans of Salman Khan and large-scale action cinema. The action sequences were the most consistently praised element across reviews, while Katrina Kaif also drew favorable notice from several critics. The most common criticisms centered on an excessive runtime, significant logical inconsistencies, and a narrative that critics found thin or derivative of other anti-terror films. A number of reviewers explicitly framed enjoyment of the film as contingent on tolerance for or appreciation of the Salman Khan star-vehicle format.

27 reviews · 16 positive · 4 mixed · 1 negative

Praised: large-scale action sequencesCriticised: excessive runtime and logical loopholes

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Critic Reviews (27)

Rajeev MasandTop Critic· IBNLive
6.0
"Tiger Zinda Hai is way too long at 2 hours and 41 minutes, but it packs some thrilling action and a beloved leading man presented in just the manner that the fans seem to want to see him."
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Shubhra GuptaTop Critic· Indian Express
5.0
"Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif starrer is an enjoyable fare..."
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Raja SenTop Critic· NDTV
5.0
"At an exhausting two hours and forty minutes, I really don't care if Tiger is alive or a vegetable - whether he's Zinda or Tinda, really - but this film needed to be much tighter."
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Bollywood Hungama News Network· Bollywood Hungama
9.0
"TIGER ZINDA HAI is a high-octane masala entertainer that stays true to its genre and delivers what it promises: King-sized entertainment. At the box office, the audiences will give the film an epic 'swagat' as it is bound to entertain them thoroughly. This one is a SURE SHOT BLOCKBUSTER and nothing can stop it from setting new records. Get ready for the Tsunami at the Box Office."
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8.0
"After a disappointing Tubelight, where most of us hated to see Salman in his vulnerable, gullible avatar, the action star is back in his top form in Tiger Zinda Hai. What more? The film is more than just a r regular Salman Khan movie and it is totally worth your while."
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Umesh Punwani· KoiMoi
8.0
"An event for Salman Khan fans, Tiger Zinda Hai is surely the most entertaining fare of 2017. Salman Khan is everyone's Secret Santa this season gifting one enjoyable movie. Thank you, Ali Abbas Zafar!"
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Bollywood Life· Bollywood Life
8.0
"After a disappointing Tubelight, where most of us hated to see Salman in his vulnerable, gullible avatar, the action star is back in his top form in Tiger Zinda Hai. What more? The film is more than just a r regular Salman Khan movie and it is totally worth your while."
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R.M. Vijayakar· IndiaWest
8.0
"As a Salman-athon, this film is full value for money and more for both Salman Khan and action buffs, so if we have to judge a film on that base, it is bang on target. But for non-Salman fans who still like their tryst with commercial entertainment, I somehow felt that this film lacked the repeat value of the best espionage dramas. But, since my rating is always for how close a film succeeds in its original intention and target audiences, I will go for a midway score."
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FridayMoviez Reviewer· FridayMoviez
8.0
"A worthy flick that gives a stand-alone message to the two rival nations India and Pakistan. Give it a sure-shot watch."
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Manju Ramanan· Masala
8.0
"Well scripted, well shot and engaging TZH is a good watch and a very entertaining film."
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Rachit Gupta· Filmfare
7.0
"It may look like a Hollywood action thriller, but at its heart, Tiger Zinda Hai is an unabashed masala movie. The excessive use of slow motion shots and the constant fall back to comedy keep reminding you, this film wasn't made in Hollywood."
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Lasyapriya Sundaram· Times Of India
7.0
"...the storyline needed to be far more compelling and the editing much tauter. Needless to add, a lot of sequences defy logic, but at the same time, there are many moments that will leave Salman Khan and action film fans impressed. Whether Tiger is Zinda or not for the next round, that's for you to find out."
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IANS· Sify
6.0
"From the first frame to the last blast, this is a fanboy director making sure that every moment of the narrative is paisa vasool for the Salman fans."
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Rohit Bhatnagar· Deccan Chronicle
6.0
"'Tiger Zinda Hai' won't disappoint you. After 'Sultan', Salman Khan and Ali Abbas Zafar pack a solid punch yet again. Especially, when there were no big releases for past three weeks, TZH can be worth watching this festive season."
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DNA Web Team· DNA India
6.0
"This is a full-on masala entertainer and seeing the way the people bajaoed ceeties and taalis whenever Salman came on screen, the superstar has a winner with this one. Watch it for him and the superb action."
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Ananya Bhattacharya· India Today
6.0
"The film has logical loopholes the size of craters. But a person choosing to watch a Salman Khan show might already be aware of that. Don't analyse, don't nitpick, don't involve logic; and you are sorted. There are many seeti-worthy moments in Tiger Zinda Hai. The film plays to Salman's gallery to the T."
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6.0
"Watch this if you are in the mood to see a stoic, stone-faced swashbuckling superhero, aka Salman Khan, and some supremely well-executed action sequences. Don't go looking for soul, though."
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Subhash K Jha· SKJBollywoodNews
6.0
"TZH looks like many other anti-terror films including Baby and NaamShabana. And if you really want to see a taut intensely-felt take on the same plot about the kidnapping of nurses in Iraq, try the Malayam film Take Off."
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Rohit Vats· Hindustan Times
5.0
"There's still some time to catch up with Hollywood, but Tiger Zinda Hai is probably the best a filmmaker could do with a superstar. Just wait for the moment when Salman Khan dodges the most dreaded criminals and their rocket launchers while riding a horse."
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Manisha Lakhe· NowRunning
5.0
"You step out of the theatre laden with cheese and corn: there's flag waving patriotism, there's good vs evil, there's his girl kicking ass, there's dialog, there's biceps and six pack abs, there's the gigantic gun, there's comic relief, there's also American drone strikes. Salman Khan fans will love the action-packed corny cheese fest that makes for a decent if predictable watch."
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Kriti Tulsiani· IBNLive
4.0
"Ali Abbas Zafar's Tiger Zinda Hai is an out and out Salman Khan-film and tailor-made for his loyal fan base who wouldn't miss the film for the world. But that also is the saddest part of the film in that we've reduced an actor to just being a 'superstar'."
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Sukanya Verma· Rediff
3.0
"Safe idealism or simply phony, you decide if you intend to endure 161 minutes of this toothless, tiring, plastic Tiger Zzzzzinda Hai."
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Suparna Sharma· Deccan Chronicle
3.0
"Tiger Zinda Hai is mounted on a mega scale that's impressive. But inside it sits a piddi (a teeny-weeny thing) which can't even pull off a biscuit trick."
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Uday Bhatia· LiveMint
"Tiger Zinda Hai plays like a cut-rate version of Airlift. Though it lacks the relative realism and superior craftsmanship of the 2016 Akshay Kumar-starrer (also about the evacuation of Indians in the Middle East), Zafar's film has the same hyper-patriotic bent."
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Nandini Ramnath· Scroll.in
"In Ali Abbas Zafar's Tiger Zinda Hai, Khan's vitality as an action hero is sorely absent. Were it not for back-up from Katrina Kaif as his wife Zoya, a laughably incompetent bunch of terrorists, and the combination of an indigestion-causing substance and sedatives, the Research & Analysis Wing agent's mission to rescue Indian and Pakistani nurses trapped in Iraq would simply not have been possible."
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Komal Nahta· Komal Nahta's Blog
"Tiger Zinda Hai is a super-entertainer and will yield very huge profits at the ticket windows. The super-hit fare will turn out to be one of the biggest blockbusters of all times."
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Firstpost Reviewer· Firstpost
"Go watch Tiger Zinda Hai if you're a fan of large-scale action entertainers, with probably just the right amount of logic. Salman Khan has well and truly arrived (again) with a potential blockbuster that has enough to keep you pinned. Good fun while it lasts."
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Cast & Crew

Details

Release Date
22 December 2017
Runtime
160 min
Language
Hindi

User Ratings & Reviews

Users7.417 ratings

17 ratings from the community

Community Reviews (10)

THDec 2017

Loved it 😍😍 Awesome movie.....

AMDec 2017

Nice movie very nice movie

MUDec 2017

Nice movie - Rating 7/10 Go and watch it

KUDec 2017

Salman rocks with awesome performance...action are mindblowing..Katrina is also doing fabulous action..awesome plot..and Paresh Rawal is also great in his role...supporting actors were also good...

MODec 2017

Best indian movie ever Salman rocks

AHDec 2017

An international level movie that I have never seen befor in India.

On the auspicious occasion of Xmas, I would like to wish each & everyone a peaceful & joyful festive season. Since there was hardly any movie that caught my eye in the past month, my blog was off the radar until this weekend. Being Xmas, a plethora of movies have released in all languages hoping to cash in on the extended weekend. The biggest release is undoubtedly from Khan, well it's not Aamir (who invariably releases during this time) but rather Salman with "Tiger Zinda Hai". It is the sequel to "Ek Tha Tiger" & Salman will be hoping that it will make amends for the abysmal "Tubelight". Hmm...will the box-office go gaga??? ISC was creating havoc in the Middle East under the leadership of Abu Usman (Sajjad Delfrooz) & all the nations were at a loss as to how to contain this terrorist organisation. ISC's latest act of terrorism was to take 25 nurses (mostly Indian & Pakistani) as hostages & convert the Iqrit hospital in Iraq into their terrorist base. With negotiation virtually impossible with Abu, the US army decides to launch a drone attack on the hospital which would effectively decimate every living being in the vicinity. However, they agreed to hold off the attack for a week as the Indian Government through their RAW Chief Shenoy (Girish Karnad) had requested time to rescue the nurses. Since a mission of this magnitude had to be handled by the best, Shenoy gets in touch with his former agent Tiger (Salman Khan) who had vanished from the scene eight years back. Though Shenoy convinces Tiger to come out of retirement, will the latter be as ruthless as before especially with a family now ??? Unlike the prequel, this is helmed by Ali Abbas Zafar who was last seen with "Sultan" which I personally consider as one of Salman's finest performance. It is inspired from the actual hostage situation that had unfolded in 2014, which had earlier led to the brilliant "Take Off". Being a Salman movie, you cant lament the fact that it belies logic after all "over the top" stuff is what he is known for. To be fair to Abbas, he has given what the audience expects with an all out action thriller. Though a shade too long, it remains true to being an action thriller with no unnecessary romantic scenes that impeded the pace in the prequel. The action sequences & Marcin's visuals were awesome while Vishal Shekhar's music was average. Tiger was a role that was tailor made for Salman with loads of action & ripping muscles. He has done utmost justice to the role & was given excellent support by Katrina who carried out her action sequences brilliantly as well. Sajjad was an apt choice as the antagonist which he performed impressively. There was a host of supporting artists as well such as Paresh Rawal, Kumud Mishra, Girish Karnad etc, all of whom have done their parts aptly. Verdict: Without a shadow of doubt, the audience will lap it up with glee making it yet another humongous blockbuster for Salman. It is a sure shot 250C at the box-office with the question being, how much will it eventually make. It's an ideal choice for a bindaas time pass & if you know what to expect from a Salman movie, you can rest assured that you will be thoroughly entertained. So check it out for some high voltage action!!! Rating: 2.75/5 Regards...Ben

TEDec 2017

Today, one is so much familiar with the type of films that Salman Khan stars in and sometimes produces that there is nothing original anymore. Tiger Zinda Hai is no different as the actor returns to do what he often does in these action-packed potboilers that are popular for a complete lack of logic.<br /> <br /> After having fled India with his Pakistani girlfriend in Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Tiger (Khan) now leaves in peace somewhere in Austria. Although he is away from his covert operations and is no more attached to India's Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), he keeps track of his former immediate senior like he is an unpaid freelancer. So, when a hostage situation concerning few Indian nurses arises in Syria, the government tracks down their best man for an operation considered suicide. It is obvious from the title itself that this is going to be a variation of convenient storytelling where everything happens with an advantage to the protagonists. And that's exactly what happens in Ali Abbas Zafar's latest feature, right from the very point Tiger makes his entry. However, considering that that is the default template of the film, there is enough entertainment value for one to consume and rejoice.<br /> <br /> The plot tries to educate its audience which is both a good thing and a bad thing. Bad thing because it makes the narrative look amateur, which the film suffers from at the beginning. The action sequences are very good, albeit without logic, as Tiger tries to balance his life and work in a war-torn Syria. There are cheesy dialogs to bring in the fun factor, supported by Paresh Rawal and Kumud Mishra, who both put up a refreshing show. There's definitely style in the film as you watch Tiger riding a horse and doing some other daredevil stuff to fight off the bad guys. Surprisingly, for a Salman Khan film, there are intelligent tidbits that elevate the film's intellectual factor. For instance, a young suicide bomber is shown carving his name incorrectly on a wooden table. It, among other brief sequences, shows what terrorism and war can do to people. <br /> <br /> The biggest problem, however, is the lack of vindictiveness and weight in the antagonist. Played rather brilliantly by Sajjad Delafrooz, this head of a terrorist organization similar to the real ISIL is a meek personage who gives enough leeway to his enemies. You don't expect the head of an unforgiving terror outfit to give people a second chance. But it happens all the time in Tiger Zinda Hai, making the viewing experience a tad uncomfortable for the learned audience. <br /> <br /> Tiger Zinda Hai is a film that has its flaws but is still a well-made action thriller that can give you goosebumps without pushing you into boredom. The patriotism factor should keep eager Indians occupied, as Khan fans dance their way out of the halls.

Film is interesting with subject and it's end but there is need to do a lots of work to actor and director to improve their work if they want to compete their film to worldwide

'Tiger Zinda Hai' doesn't carry the racy drive which powered hugely the very entertaining, very refreshing 'Ek Tha Tiger', nor does it have any sort of nuances: if you gave yourself, just like me, to the amazingly written Malayalam film 'Take Off' about the same issue of rescue of Indian nurses from an Iraqi city, the plot point here for a Salman Khan-saviour would be especially disappointing. You know- this- this- barrel of jingoism and mellow emotional inconsistencies which Ali Abbas Zafar tries to spoon-feed you with. But it's still a respectable enough drama which has a coherent, layered script with sharper romance between Tiger and Zoya (played by Katrina Kaif). You can watch it. It's solid.

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