Draft:Tiger (2007)

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, 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.

Cast

 * Mithun Chakraborty as Prof. Indrajit Sen alias Tiger
 * Debashree Roy as Suparna Sen, Indrajit's wife
 * Rajatava Dutta as Bikram Sinha
 * Dulal Lahiri as Constable Banabihari Das
 * George Baker
 * Sumit Ganguly as Bikram's henchman
 * Bharat Kaul
 * Ashok Kumar
 * Sudip Mukherjee
 * Mrinal Mukherjee


 * Riintu Dey as Bikash
 * Manik Das

Special Appearance

 * Rimjhim Gupta in the song  'Bou Didi Go'