Ek Tha Tiger

          Name: Ek Tha Tiger

          Genre: Action/Thriller/Romance

 Cast: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Ranvir Shorey, Kabir Khan (Director)

     Synopsis: Indian spy code named “Tiger” (Salman Khan) and an officer of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is operating a mission in northern Iraq. Tiger killed one of his own men who has compromised his hands to Pakistan spy agency called Inter Services Intelligence as well he also kills many of the ISI agents during his escape from Iraq. Tiger on return to India meets his boss in New Delhi named Shenoy. He gives him another mission in Dublin where he has to keep an eye on professor of Indian origin named Anwar Jamaal who teaches in Trinity College. He is basically being suspected to share his findings of the research with Pakistan’s ISI. His fellow RAW agent Gopi too accompanied with his mission. He initially finds Professor Anwar and told him that he is a reporter and wants his interview but all in vain. He later on meets Professor Anwar’s caretaker Zoya (Katrina Kaif). He spends his most of time with befriending Zoya and doesn’t give much importance in observing the activities of Professor. Tiger fellow Gopi warns him from time to time not to fall in love of Zoya and focus his activities on observing Professor but Tiger’s whole attention was on Zoya to extract information from her. During a function in theater, Tiger plans to visit Professor’s house see what wrong going on as being information provided by Gopi that some activity is going on in professor’s house. When Tiger reached there he finds that Zoya was a Pakistan’s agency ISI agent who also wants to have information of the professor’s research. Tiger asks her to move aside and handover the information to him but refused that she can’t commit treason to Pakistan. Tiger fired some shots but didn’t kill Zoya and asked him to leave.

        After some time, Tiger and Zoya meet at UN foreign minister’s meet at Istanbul where Zoya signals Tiger to come out as she want to talk to him. With Tiger’s some emotional talk, Zoya at first shows reluctance on going with him as she can’t betray Pakistan but later on agrees to go with him as both of them decided to leave everything for their love. They fooled their respective agencies and take flight to Brazil and but fooled their agencies men that they are going to Kazakhstan when they try to catch them. After few years both agencies ISI and RAW traced Zoya and Tiger in Cuba as they got caught fighting on streets in a CCTV. ISI men caught Zoya and try to take her back. Tiger meets Gopi and asked him to save her from ISI as he and Zoya were coming back to India where Zoya will cooperate with RAW agency. But instead of coming back to India, they board an airplane to escape from their secret service agencies. Tiger, later on called Shenoy where Shenoy told him that RAW will catch both of them and they will deal with hem in the hardest possible manner. Tiger told him that they will return on the day when both Pakistan and India no longer need their respective secret services that is ISI and RAW. In the end, images of both Zoya and Tiger were shown in Venice, Cape Town, Zurich and London where they were seen as reported but till date they haven’t captured them.

        Review: It’s a film which is at all based on Salman Khan’s dashing and electrifying performance and not more than that. Katrina Kaif looks as usual charming and stunning and also did some mind blowing action scenes in the movie. The movie no doubt contains some dazzling action sequences and also some of the most beautiful and stunning locations. Songs of the movie were fair enough and so was the music but what was weak is the story part of the movie. Though it has a fair enough balance between both love affair and spying activities but you will not able to figure out as a whole what type of movie is this or I should say what the movie is all about a love affair or secret service spying activities movie. This is one of drastic drawbacks of the movie. This is a fairly entertainment movie with dashing and sizzling performance of Salman khan and for those who are die hard fan of Salman Khan it’s a must watch for them.  

         Stars given: 2.5 out of 5.