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Love as Espionage, and Vice Versa

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Kabir Khan's “Ek Tha Tiger,” “a Bollywood romance dressed in espionage clothes, seems most engaged during its glass-shattering, rooftop-hopping action sequences,” Rachel Saltz wrote in The New York Times, of the action thriller that released in India on Wednesday.

Salman Khan plays “Tiger,” an agent of the Indian intelligence agency R.A.W., or, Research and Analysis Wing, and his love interest Katrina Kaif is Zoya, a Pakistani agent.

“Its superagent hero,” Ms. Saltz wrote, “can't help making a mess fighting and chasing in foreign cities.”

“Too bad these bursts of action have more wit than the actual story or characters,” she wrote.

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