“A lot of immigration stories are just sob stories, and that’s not my thing,” Khan told NBC. What comes of the film is a sweet, lighthearted dramedy that forgoes the harsher details of immigrant life and instead portrays the life of young twenty-somethings and their quest to find love, success and friendship.
Malik still tries to win over his childhood crush and live up to his father, a celebrated tiger hunter who died earlier in his youth, while navigating through the pains of his job falling apart. The film centers around Sami Malik, played by Danny Pudi (“Community”), an aspiring twenty-something engineer who leaves his rural Indian village for a job opportunity in 1970s Chicago. Khan brought that story to her debut film, “The Tiger Hunter,” which premiered Friday night in Los Angeles, New York and select cities for a limited release. THE TIGER HUNTER is now playing in select markets.In the 1950s, Lena Khan’s grandfather became a local legend after killing a tiger that terrorized his rural community. The Tiger Hunter is the story of Sami Malik (Danny Pudi, Community), a young Indian man who travels to 1970s America to become an engineer in order to impress his childhood crush (Karen David, Galavant) and live up to the legacy of his father - a legendary tiger hunter back home. It’s also sweet without being saccharine.
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Still, the movie is effortlessly charming, even when its plot knots itself into clichés. Jon Heder from the hit indie movie Napoleon Dynamite and new movie The Tiger Hunter gives a Q & A panel with a room full of fans at the 2017 Hamilton Comic C. Only one genuine ’70s hit makes its way into the film: Cat Stevens’ “Wild World,” whose bittersweet lyrics don’t really jibe with the film’s sunny outlook. Unfortunately, a movie with this small a budget can only afford sound-alikes for its soundtrack. Especially in the flashback scenes, director Lena Khan – in her feature debut – owes a lot to his style. THE TIGER HUNTER owes a debt to all those movies, as well as Wes Anderson. If all of this sounds like any other number of “trying to make it in the big city” movies, well you’re right. THE TIGER HUNTER is the story of Sami Malik, a young Indian who travels to 1970s America to become an engineer in order to impress his childhood crush and live up to the legacy of his fathera legendary tiger hunter back home. When Sami learns his childhood crush Ruby (Karen David), he and his pals hatch a scheme to pass the boss’ palatial estate off as his own home. He makes friends with the boss’ son (Jon Heder, in what amounts to his biggest role in nearly a decade) and his Dukes of Hazzard-obsessed roommate (Rizwan Manji). Sami takes a job as a draftsman for a company making microwaves, though they struggle with finding one that both fully heats frozen food and doesn’t explode. Sami ends up sharing an apartment with nearly a dozen other immigrants, all working low-end jobs while they wait for their big break. So he takes the leap and moves to Chicago, where he assumes he’ll land a job and house as soon as they see his qualifications.Īs anyone who has struggled to find a good job in their field can tell you, that’s not how it works. But now it’s the late 1970s: his father has since passed, and his engineering degree is useless in a town that’s barely industrialized. Also in attendance were Danny‘s The Tiger Hunter co-stars Jon Heder, Rizwan Manji, Karen David, Iqbal Theba, and Anand Desai-Barochia, as well as The Big Bang Theory‘s Kunal Nayyar. His Sami Malik lives in the shadow of his dashing father, who protected his Indian village from tigers. His only defining characteristic is his determination, which doesn’t make for the most dynamic lead (at least since he’s not training in a sport here). Now THE TIGER HUNTER doesn’t really offer him one as rich as Abed. And of course, John Oliver and Donald Glover need no introduction anymore.īut Pudi, thoroughly charming as the socially awkward film student Abed, hasn’t found a solid role yet. The Tiger Hunter is the story of Sami Malik (Danny Pudi, Community), a young Indian man who travels to 1970s America to become an engineer in order to impress his childhood crush (Karen David, Galavant) and live up to the legacy of his father - a legendary tiger hunter back home. Alison Brie has GLOW, Gillian Jacobs has LOVE, Yvette Nicole Brown is on this fall’s THE MAYOR, Joel McHale had a show last year as well as commercials and movies. Sadly, Danny Pudi is the only cast member who hasn’t gone onto bigger things after COMMUNITY came to an end in 2015. Kip Mooney // Film Critic THE TIGER HUNTERĬast: Danny Pudi, Rizwan Manji, Jon Heder, Karen David and Kevin Pollak
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