At the 63rd Filmfare Awards, Tiger Zinda Hai won for Best Action. It also set the record for highest opening weekend for a Hindi-language film, with ₹114 crore (US$17.51 million). Like its predecessor, it set numerous box-office records during its theatrical run, grossing over ₹565.1 crore (US$86.78 million) worldwide, becoming the 13th highest-grossing Indian film.
It received generally positive reviews from critics.
Tiger Zinda Hai was theatrically released worldwide by Yash Raj Films on 12 December 2017. With a budget of ₹120 crore (US$18.43 million)– ₹130 crore (US$19.96 million) it is the one of the most expensive Hindi films ever made. By 2016, pre-production had begun on the film, and filming concluded by 2017, with filming locations including Abu Dhabi, Austria, Greece, and Morocco. In Tiger Zinda Hai, Avinash "Tiger" Singh Rathore (Khan) and Zoya Humaini-Rathore (Kaif) must come out of hiding to save hostages held by a militant terrorist organisation in Iraq.Ī sequel was conceived following the success of the Ek Tha Tiger, but faced a number of delays after the writer and director of the first film, Kabir Khan, refused to return for a sequel Zafar was subsequently hired to write and direct, and the film's story draws inspiration from the 2014 abduction of Indian nurses by ISIL. The film stars Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Angad Bedi, Sajjad Delafrooz, Kumud Mishra, Nawab Shah, Ivan Rodrigues, Girish Karnad and Paresh Rawal. The sequel to Ek Tha Tiger (2012), it is the second instalment in the Tiger franchise and is the second instalment in the YRF Spy Universe. Tiger Is Alive) is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written and directed by Ali Abbas Zafar from a story by Zafar and Neelesh Misra.