Tiger Zinda Hai (2017) on Netflix
NR20172h 41mActionAdventureThriller
Abu Usman's ISC holds Indian and Pakistani nurses hostage in an Iraqi hospital. With an airstrike days away, Tiger and Zoya, in hiding in Innsbruck, are asked to bring the nurses out.
- Netflix3.1/5
- IMDb5.9/1037,321 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes64%
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Plot summary
An American journalist dies in Iraq while reporting the ISC's activities to the CIA. The group's leader, Abu Usman, takes a bullet in the arm at a rally in Ikrit and is brought to the city hospital, where Indian and Pakistani nurses train. Usman sends fighters to guard him; the CIA prepares an airstrike, and the nurse Maria telephones the Indian Ambassador to Iraq to report that she and the other nurses are being held. The CIA gives RAW chief Shenoy seven days to get them out. Shenoy finds Tiger and Zoya, married and raising a son, Junior, in hiding in Innsbruck. Tiger hesitates, then agrees at Zoya's urging and takes a small team into Syria.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tiger Zinda Hai (2017)
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- The story of Tiger Zinda Hai is inspired by a real case: the 2014 abduction of Indian nurses by ISIL, the hostage-taking that the film's writers drew on for its plot.
- On its release, Tiger Zinda Hai faced protests from the Valmiki community, which filed a legal case against Salman Khan and Shilpa Shetty after Khan allegedly made a casteist slur comparing his dancing to a sanitation worker, or "bhangi", on a dance show.
- Pakistan's Central Board of Film Censors refused the film a No-Objection Certificate, citing the same reason given for Ek Tha Tiger — that "the image of Pakistan and its law enforcement agencies" had been compromised — even though it had a song by Pakistani singer Atif Aslam.
- The film was the last Hindi film appearance of Girish Karnad, who played RAW chief Shenoy; because of his ongoing illness and treatment at the time, the character was shown on medical support in his scenes.
- Within 24 hours the trailer broke Hindi film trailer records on YouTube with more than 29 million views, 480 thousand likes and 250 thousand shares; on 11 November it became the most liked film trailer on YouTube with 700 thousand likes, overtaking Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
- The first single, "Swag Se Swagat", sung by Vishal Dadlani and Neha Bhasin, became the most-liked Bollywood song on YouTube and the fastest Bollywood song to cross 100 million views there.
- Maharashtra Navnirman Sena protested unsuccessfully, urging Mumbai multiplexes to promote the Marathi film Deva instead of Tiger Zinda Hai, and complained that Marathi films like Deva and Ek Atrangi had lost screens.
