Tiger Zinda Hai: Here’s why PM Narendra Modi’s name was removed from the film

Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif-starrer ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ is collecting some amazing amount at the box office. The film, which has been inspired by a real-life event, was supposed to pay a homage to our Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. However, it was CBFC who told the makers to change a dialogue which had the PM’s name in it.

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Director Ali Abbas Zafar stated, “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 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’.”

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The filmmaker 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.”

‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ has collected Rs 217.50 crore in eight days which is quite good. If the film does well in coming days then the lifetime collection would easily be around Rs 300 crore. (Also Read: NOT Tiger Zinda Hai but THIS was the initial title of Salman-Katrina starrer)

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