Tigers (2014 film)

Tigers (initially titled White Lies)^[2] is a 2014 Indian drama film directed by Danis Tanović, and produced as a joint production between Cinema Time, French production company ASAP Films and Sikhya Entertainment.

Tigers
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Danis Tanović
Written by	Dialogues: Darab Farooqui
Screenplay by	Danis Tanović Andy Paterson
Story by	Danis Tanović
Produced by	Prashita Chaudhary Kshitij Chaudhary Guneet Monga Anurag Kashyap Cedomir Kolar Marc Baschet Andy Paterson Meraj Shaikh(Supervising Producer) Cat Villiers[1]
Starring	Emraan Hashmi Khalid Abdalla Geetanjali Supriya Pathak
Cinematography	Erol Zubcevic
Edited by	Prerna Saigal
Music by	JAM8
Production companies	Sikhya Entertainment A.S.A.P. Films
Distributed by	ZEE5
Release dates	8 September 2014 (2014-09-08) (Toronto) 21 November 2018 (2018-11-21)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi

The film is inspired by an episode in Pakistan during the 1990s, a repetition of the Nestlé baby milk scandal in 1970s that occurred in developing countries. A Pakistani salesman named Syed Aamir Raza Hussain became a whistle-blower against his former employer Nestlé; in 1999, two years after he left Nestlé, Hussain released a report in association with the non-profit organisation International Baby Food Action Network, in which he alleged that Nestlé was encouraging doctors to push its infant formula products over breastfeeding.^[3]

The film features Emraan Hashmi in the leading role as Ayan, based on Hussain, a pharmaceutical representative in Pakistan who discovers his new company's baby formula has killed hundreds of children, after which he begins a lone and dangerous battle against the company.^[4] The film began filming in 2013 in Punjab, India, and had its premiere in September 2014 at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.^[5][6]

The film faced multiple delays during its initial release. After Tanovic decided to fictionalise Raza's battle, he renamed Nestlé as Lasta in the film and cast Hashmi after watching Shanghai (2012). Tigers was publicly released on the streaming platform ZEE5 on 21 November 2018.^[7][8][9]

Cast

• Emraan Hashmi as Ayan
• Geetanjali as Zainab, Ayan's wife
• Danny Huston as Alex
• Khalid Abdalla as Nadeem
• Adil Hussain as Bilal, Ayan's boss
• Maryam d'Abo as Maggie ^[10]
• Satyadeep Mishra as Dr. Faiz
• Heino Ferch as Robert
• Sam Reid as Frank
• Supriya Pathak as Taslima, Ayan's mother
• Vinod Nagpal as Mustafa, Ayan's father
• Ashwath Bhatt as Dr Saleem^[11]
• Rubina as Nurse
• Benjamin Gilani as Col Malik
• Inayat Sood as Nurse 1
• Kanwal Baidwan as Nurse
• Milind Raja as Nader
• Sanjay Panchal as Sanjay

See also

• Nestlé Pakistan