Tigers - Movie Review
A salesman fights a legal battle against a multinational company when he finds out that there baby milk formula has killed many children.
Cast - Emraan Hashmi, Geetanjali Thapa, Danny Huston, Khalid Abdalla, Adil Hussain, Maryam d'Abo, Satyadeep Mishra, Supriya Pathak
Directed By - Danis Tanovic
Genre - Thriller, Drama
The subject Tigers addresses is a sensitive one; it is heart-wrenching and painful to watch. When Ayan (Emraan Hashmi) visits hospitals to sell his companies products, we sometimes hear cries of the babies in the background. Given the subject it tackles, it naturally breaks your heart and even Ayan's when he finds the source of the cries. Ayan works for Lasta and sells there products to the hospitals. Due to his good manners and persuasiveness, soon every pharmaceutical starts selling the products, and he gets in the good books of the doctors and even nurses. But when his friend Dr Faiz (Satyadeep Mishra) shows the dirt of his company, he decides to fight them with all his determination and power.
Tigers is based on a real story and accounts the incidents that happened with the former Nestle Pakistan salesman. Nestle is changed to Lasta. A character in the film, who is none other than the former bond girl, is named Maggie (Maryam d'Abo) which is one of the most famous and favourite Nestle product.
Director Danis Tanovic, best known for No Man's Land, had begun filming this movie way back in 2014. It had also premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival but sadly, was not able to see the light of the day with respect to a theatrical release. Thanks to the popularity of the digital platform, it got released on Zee5.
Initially titled White Lies, Tigers is that kind of film which could have gone wrong in many ways. It could have over-relied on the shocking images of dying babies in the hospitals; it could have included scenes involving local goons attacking the heroes house and in the process, brutally hurting a member of the family. It could have adopted this basic trend which usually a movie dealing with this topic generally follows for shedding those extra tears from the audience. And so I was pleased to see someone like Tanovic directing this project as someone else could have easily given into the typical tropes and cliches making it less effective and another conventional film.
Some sequences are heightened by using tabla in the background. The sounds of uncertainty it produces make you feel uncomfortable and at the same time engaged. From a simple and happy married man watching a Bollywood movie with his wife through the window, he becomes an alerted father who with a baby sleeping in his arms looks cautiously outside the window as a vehicle approaches his house. We feel his fear and don't want anything to hurt him.
This sense of involvement is achieved even with the presence of a well-known actor like Emraan Hashmi. He is popular and generally when we see a famous face on the screen, most of the time we are taken out of the experience by the popularity of the star. It is then only an incredible job from Hashmi's side that he grounds his character and charisma by inhabiting the role of an ordinary salesman from Pakistan. The result is that you actually believe and root for him. He speaks with his eyes who register pain when he first sees the deformed dehydrated dying babies in the hospital and like the viewers, he tries to look away in an attempt to escape the situation. This is the story that repeats itself, and so there is no looking away from it. Although the supporting casts don't have much to do, they add their bits to the film and were all excellent in their parts.
The tagline of the movie is "can a salesman be a hero". For that, we should know what makes someone a hero. Ayan fights an almost impossible battle with a big MNC. He sacrifices 7 years of his life by living away from his family, despite many life-threatening obstacles on his way, he never gives up and continues to fight for the benefit of the others. If all these things don't make him a hero, I don't know what will then. For me, he came out more than a hero - he came out as a superhero.
Rating - 3.5/5
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Cast - Emraan Hashmi, Geetanjali Thapa, Danny Huston, Khalid Abdalla, Adil Hussain, Maryam d'Abo, Satyadeep Mishra, Supriya Pathak
Directed By - Danis Tanovic
Genre - Thriller, Drama
The subject Tigers addresses is a sensitive one; it is heart-wrenching and painful to watch. When Ayan (Emraan Hashmi) visits hospitals to sell his companies products, we sometimes hear cries of the babies in the background. Given the subject it tackles, it naturally breaks your heart and even Ayan's when he finds the source of the cries. Ayan works for Lasta and sells there products to the hospitals. Due to his good manners and persuasiveness, soon every pharmaceutical starts selling the products, and he gets in the good books of the doctors and even nurses. But when his friend Dr Faiz (Satyadeep Mishra) shows the dirt of his company, he decides to fight them with all his determination and power.
Tigers is based on a real story and accounts the incidents that happened with the former Nestle Pakistan salesman. Nestle is changed to Lasta. A character in the film, who is none other than the former bond girl, is named Maggie (Maryam d'Abo) which is one of the most famous and favourite Nestle product.
Director Danis Tanovic, best known for No Man's Land, had begun filming this movie way back in 2014. It had also premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival but sadly, was not able to see the light of the day with respect to a theatrical release. Thanks to the popularity of the digital platform, it got released on Zee5.
Initially titled White Lies, Tigers is that kind of film which could have gone wrong in many ways. It could have over-relied on the shocking images of dying babies in the hospitals; it could have included scenes involving local goons attacking the heroes house and in the process, brutally hurting a member of the family. It could have adopted this basic trend which usually a movie dealing with this topic generally follows for shedding those extra tears from the audience. And so I was pleased to see someone like Tanovic directing this project as someone else could have easily given into the typical tropes and cliches making it less effective and another conventional film.
Some sequences are heightened by using tabla in the background. The sounds of uncertainty it produces make you feel uncomfortable and at the same time engaged. From a simple and happy married man watching a Bollywood movie with his wife through the window, he becomes an alerted father who with a baby sleeping in his arms looks cautiously outside the window as a vehicle approaches his house. We feel his fear and don't want anything to hurt him.
This sense of involvement is achieved even with the presence of a well-known actor like Emraan Hashmi. He is popular and generally when we see a famous face on the screen, most of the time we are taken out of the experience by the popularity of the star. It is then only an incredible job from Hashmi's side that he grounds his character and charisma by inhabiting the role of an ordinary salesman from Pakistan. The result is that you actually believe and root for him. He speaks with his eyes who register pain when he first sees the deformed dehydrated dying babies in the hospital and like the viewers, he tries to look away in an attempt to escape the situation. This is the story that repeats itself, and so there is no looking away from it. Although the supporting casts don't have much to do, they add their bits to the film and were all excellent in their parts.
The tagline of the movie is "can a salesman be a hero". For that, we should know what makes someone a hero. Ayan fights an almost impossible battle with a big MNC. He sacrifices 7 years of his life by living away from his family, despite many life-threatening obstacles on his way, he never gives up and continues to fight for the benefit of the others. If all these things don't make him a hero, I don't know what will then. For me, he came out more than a hero - he came out as a superhero.
Rating - 3.5/5
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