Did you know Tiger Zinda Hai was a tribute to PM Narendra Modi

Salman Khan’s Tiger Zinda Hai has become a huge hit at the box office. The film has been inspired by true events from the year 2014, where 46 nurses were locked up by the ISIS in Iraq. But did you know the film was a tribute to PM Narendra Modi?

While speaking to media director Ali Abbas Zafar said “When the hostage crisis happened in 2014, Narendra Modi had just become the Prime Minister of India. It was a huge crisis for the government. Modi Ji along with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval worked non-stop for 10 days to rescue all the Indian nurses held as a hostage by terrorists in Iraq and brought them back to their homes, to their parents and family. Not a single bullet was fired during the mission and it showed the diplomatic clout that India had to the world. This incident inspired me a lot and I started writing a fictional film on the incident which became Tiger Zinda Hai,”

Ali further revealed, “In the film, we wanted to pay a homage to Narendra Modi Ji. If you have noticed, during the rescue mission in Tiger Zinda Hai, Paresh Rawal asks Tiger if ‘PM sahab’ is aware of the mission. The original dialogue in the film was ‘Modi Ji Ko Pata Hai?’ as a tribute to him and the mission. However, since the entire film is a work of fiction, the censor board rightfully asked us to change it to ‘PM sahab’. We respected their accurate decision as we were not retelling the exact details of the rescue mission.”

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