Bollywood's Most “Wanted” and Box-office’s hot favorite
Salman Khan is back on his lucky “EID” season with big bang with his most
anticipated “Ek Tha Tiger”. Audience got to see the cute pair of Salman-Katrina
back in this film. Kabir Khan directs the film under Yash Raj Productions…
Plot:
India’s Top Spy Avinash Singh Rathode aka Tiger (his
codename) is given a mission to trace a scientist in Dublin, Ireland. There he falls
in love with Zoya. This first love of Tiger with Zoya, brings unexpected twists
in his life…makes him travel through various destinations in the world. How
tiger finally wins Zoya’s love forms the crux of this unusual Love Story…
Salmans Showtime Begins….
He’s mere presence is magnetic enough to lure the crowds to
the theatres. The Box-office registers just forget the upper limit. Adjectives
apart, Sallu Bhai does his usual. He underplays the spy…romances his lady love
Kats in rather innocent way and of course, Zoya falls for him for the same. He makes
fun of his name saying “Tiger is the name usually given to doggies”, that’s Salman
leaving no stone for critics. But till the stunts go to an unbelievable level...What
the entire “Avengers” do with their so-called powers and gadgets,
Sallubhai does it so naturally!!
Katreena is of course gorgeous and no-doubt in it. Post-Interval,
few scenes, she does it with no make-up. She gets to do few stunts with the bad guys.
Surely would have been supported by a dupe, But the enter sequences look so
natural. And the final song "Maasha Allah" is big treat to her fans.
Girish Karnad plays Tiger’s boss. Ranvir Shorey plays
Salmans colleague.
Love story blended with Action….
Surprisingly “Ek Tha Tiger” is more a love story rather than
an Action flick. Kabir Khan who earlier directed Kabul Express and New York easily
blends the love story with action elements that suits Salman. And the chemistry
of the lead pair made his task much and much easier… sometimes their eyes speak
lot with not much of dialogue.
And the movie travels through plush locations in Ireland, Istanbul
and Cuba, thus adding freshness on-screen. Aseem Mishra’s Cinematography excels
in every frame.
What’s missing in Tiger….
Well all good said so far…there’s definitely something huge
missing here… Apart from Sajid-Wajids “Maasha Allah” (that too comes at
end-titles), the film has no other numbers that are worth rendering. So Film’s
music director Sohail Sen does not add a penny to the flick. Even the
background scores does not give you the racy effect, it rather slows down the
proceedings. Both Love and Action collide with each other many a times,
shifting the audiences mood now and then. Salman’s usual funny one-liners are
missing to an extent. Thus you definitely miss that josh you see in Salman’s
previous films
No Second thoughts as it is Salman’s flick….
As Salman is on high ride for last couple of years, the point
of “when are you gonna watch the flick” matters rather “whether you gonna?” . “Ek
Tha Tiger” definitely has a better content than his previous flicks and the
love-track, Action episodes and the locations and of course Salman are its USP.
On the flip side, very slow pace some times and not so great music slogs the
film. So it’s Salman who is a crowd puller rather than content in this case too…
In June its Spiderman…In July its Batman…And August is
none other but our “SAL”-MAN….
Score:
3 stars out of 5.
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