Salman Khansahab Katrina Kaifji starrer Tiger 3 starts with a bang. With 4 days Tiger 3 has 171 crores in India and 375 crores worldwide. On 1st Day it did 45 crores in India and 75 crores worldwide. Tiger 3 is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films. The film stars Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Emraan Hashmi. It is a sequel to Tiger Zinda Hai (2017) and is the fifth installment in the YRF Spy Universe. The film is set after the events of War (2019), and Pathaan (2023).
Principal photography began in March 2021 with filming taking place in Delhi, Mumbai, Istanbul, Saint Petersburg and Vienna. The film's soundtrack is composed by Pritam while background score is composed by Tanuj Tiku. The film was made at an estimated budget of ₹300 crore, thus making it the most expensive project of Yash Raj Films.[3]
Tiger 3 was released on 12 November 2023 in standard, IMAX, 4DX and other premium formats, coinciding with Diwali, where it received mixed to positive reviews from critics with praise for its cast performances (particularly Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Emraan Hashmi), action sequences and technical aspects, but criticized its plot and pace.[1][5]
Plot
Avinash "Tiger" Singh Rathore leads a happy family life with his wife, Zoya, and son, Junior. Tiger is called for a mission by the Chief of R&AW, Maithili Menon, to rescue his former handler, Gopi Arya, who was captured while trying to extract information about a dangerous mission being planned by Pakistan. Tiger manages to rescue Gopi and take him back to India. However, he succumbs to the brutal injuries he sustained; before dying, Gopi reveals that Zoya is also a part of the mission, which shocks Tiger, prompting him to start spying on her. Tiger is later assigned on another mission to safeguard a suspect named Jibran Shiekh in Russia. He possess confidential information regarding Pakistan's mission and had escaped to Russia when he and Gopi were exposed.
Tiger learns that Zoya has been assigned to assassinate Sheikh, where he manages to save him and confront her. Tiger later gets captured and is taken to Aatish Rehman, an ex-ISI agent. He reveals to Tiger that he had forced Zoya to take the mission by holding Junior[a] hostage. Tiger and Zoya are then forced to leave to Istanbul and steal a briefcase containing PAL codes of a missile. Tiger manages to steal the briefcase with the help of his RAW team and gives it to Zoya. Who in turn hands it to Aatish, who then has Tiger imprisoned in Pakistan. Both Tiger and Zoya are framed as traitors by their respective countries.
It is later revealed that Aatish holds a grudge against Tiger and Zoya when they thwarted his plans of killing an Indian Army General to stop the peace treaty between India and Pakistan. Tiger also had unknowingly killed Aatish's pregnant wife and ISI agent, Shaheen Baig. Tiger is later taken to Pakistan and is given the death penalty, but manages to escape with the help of Pathaan. He travels to Islamabad and meets Hassan,[a] who now works as a hacker. Tiger's team, Zoya and her fellow ISI agents, Abrar and Javed, arrive at Istanbul, where they learn about Aatish's plan to assassinate Nasreen Irani, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, in order to become the next Prime Minister. Pakistan Army General Imitaz Haq is also in cahoots with Aatish.
Tiger, Zoya and their team secretly enter the PMO, where they reveal about Aatish and Haq's plans to Irani. Tiger and Zoya take Irani to a safe place, upon which, Tiger forces Haq to reveal the truth to the media. However, Aatish secretly kills Haq with the help of Javed, who is later revealed to be Shaheen's brother, and frames Tiger for killing Haq. Abrar and Tiger's teammate, Karan, are also killed by Aatish and Javed. Aatish and Javed arrive to kill Irani at the safe place, but Tiger and Zoya manage to help Irani escape, where Hassan and Javed are killed. Tiger and Aatish engage in hand-to-hand combat, with Tiger killing Aatish. Aatish's crimes are revealed by Irani to the public, and in turn, Tiger, Zoya and their teams are proven innocent. In the aftermath, Tiger and Zoya return to their family life and assures Menon that he will be there to serve his country.
In the post-credits scene, Colonel Sunil Luthra calls Major Kabir Dhaliwal and assigns him a mission to assassinate a notorious anonymous person.
