Review - 'Ek Tha Tiger'

“Ek tha mera brain” …. lost it completely, after watching “Ek Tha Tiger”!

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Let’s take a moment, to applaud RAW & ISI – post ETT, having been entertained, by the unintentional comic capers of the celluloid agents of RAW & ISI, you come out of the theatre, grateful that what you had watched, was all fiction & that the asli agencies, actually do some decent work & keep the nation safe & secure!

So this is the story of Tiger (Salman Khan), a dal cooking, brash RAW agent, who wants never ending assignments & has been hoarding his untouched salary for countless years …. & all he has saved is a measly 23 lakhs! He falls in love with the enemy and they both, very easily, hoodwink their respective agencies & run away! The director has not heard of something called inflation, because with that before mentioned 23 lakhs, our hero gets fake passports made, buys business class tickets & happily globe trots with his mehbooba, Ms Kaif! Apart from the hero and heroine, the rest of the RAW & ISI agents are made to look like dumb, clumsy, ineffective buffoons!

For some reason, whenever Tiger hits the screen, music very similar to the theme of ‘Don’ plays – happy coincidence or some kind of a dig at SRK?

But every dark cloud has a silver lining:

Being a Yash Raj production & directed by Kabir Khan, Salman Khan is not allowed to be Salman Khan & that is a breath of fresh air, a welcome departure from “Bodyguard” kind of films. Sure he still cannot act, but is credible in the action sequences, which are plenty, exciting & James Bond like!

AND there’s Katrina Kaif – as the ISI agent, she is drop dead gorgeous, very likeable & kicks ass in the fight scenes! My besotted husband, totally smitten by Kat’s tough gal avatar, declares that the movie should have been called – ‘Ek Thi Kat!” Of course, if he continues to drool, I may have to write another piece titled, ‘Ek Tha Husband!’

Salman Khan fans will anyway watch ETT; for non SK fans, this is the best opportunity to see the actor in a fairly decent movie, where he is mellow & relatively sober! We watched it, because we had seen every other movie in town & simply needed our film fix! So whatever be your reason for watching ‘ETT’, go ahead, because while it may not be a great movie, it ‘aint bad either, has fabulous locales, set in the Middle East, which is the flavor of the season in Bollywood, has Kat looking sublime & shaking her belly like an India rubber man,in the ‘Mashallah’ number & because as Indians, we need to ‘save the Tiger!’