Tiger is a 2007 Indian Bengali language political action thriller film co-written and directed by Swapan Saha. Produced by Nispal Singh under the banner of Surinder Films, the film stars Mithun Chakraborty in the titular role, with Debashree Roy and Rajatava Dutta in leads, while Dulal Lahiri, George Baker, Sumit Ganguly, Bharat Kaul, Sudip Mukherjee, Shyamal Dutta, Mrinal Mukherjee and Riintu Dey in another pivotal roles, with Ashok Kumar and Rimjhim Gupta in guest appearance. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Jeet Gannguli, while the screenplay and dialogues was written by N.K Salil. Inspired from the politically incorrect situations in various fields of West Bengal,[1] the film revolves around some gruesome murders taken places in Kolkata, where every victims are reputed and famous in the society, including Police, 17 PWD Officers, an advocate, a doctor, multiple ration dealers, an engineer and later all of them are revealed to be involved in corruption in each and every fields. Kolkata Police declares it to be a serial killing case, as all of those murders are done by an organisation named 'Tiger', which is mistakenly assumed to be a naxalite organisation.

Tiger marks the 6th collaboration between Mithun Chakraborty and Swapan Saha, who together did MLA Fatakeshto (2006)also based on political and social issues. The film is considered to be one of the finest performances by Chakraborty as well as films in his filmography. It was a blockbuster at the box office and completed a successful run consisting of 110 days in theatres. It also received a number of positive reviews upon it's release. Critics particularly noted the background score by S.P Venkatesh, which played a pivotal role in the film during the mass sequences; Chakraborty and Rajatava Dutta's performance; catchy dialogues and social issues portrayed in it. It was enlisted as one of the highest grossing Bengali films of 2007.

Released in 2015, the Akshay Kumar starrer Hindi film Gabbar Is Back, in spite of being a remake of the Tamil film Ramanaa, had some scenes copied from both Tiger and MLA Fatakeshto.

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Tiger
Directed bySwapan Saha
Screenplay byN.K Salil (With dialogues)
Story bySwapan Saha
N.K Salil
Produced byNispal Singh
StarringMithun Chakraborty
Debashree Roy
Rajatava Dutta
Dulal Lahiri
George Baker
Sumit Ganguly
Sudip Mukherjee
Mrinal Mukherjee
CinematographyB.Satish
Edited bySuresh Urs
Music byJeet Gannguli
Production
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Distributed bySurinder Films
Release date
11 October 2007
Running time
129 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
  • Riintu Dey as Bikash
  • Manik Das

Special Appearance

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Soundtrack

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All lyrics are written by Shibdas Bandyopadhyay (only a song) and Gautam Sushmit; all music is composed by Jeet Gannguli

No.TitleLyricsMusic{{{extra_column}}}Length
1."Tiger theme (Instrumental)"S.P VenkateshS.P VenkateshS.P Venkatesh1:05
2."Ghum Aaye Naa"Gautam SushmitJeet GannguliSadhna Sargam4:22
3."Chupi Chupi Ru Ru Ru"Gautam SushmitJeet GannguliBabul Supriyo
Pamela Jain
3:37
4."Bou Didi Go (remix)"Shibdas BandyopadhyayJeet GannguliKalpana Patowary3:10

References

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  1. ^ "The Telegraph - Calcutta : Entertainment". 2016-10-03. Archived from the original on 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2024-06-14.

Category:Indian political films Category:Indian vigilante films Category:Films directed by Swapan Saha Category:Bengali films remade in other languages Category:Hindi remakes of Bengali films Category:Films directed by Krish Category:Indian films about revenge