Indian
actor
Emraan
Hashmi's
debut
international
project
Tigers,
directed
by
the
Oscar
winning
Danis
Tanovic,
will
have
its
world
premiere
at
the
prestigious
Toronto
International
Film
Festival
(TIFF)
next
month.
A
co-production
between
India,
France
and
Britain,
the
movie
has
been
categorised
under
the
Contemporary
World
Cinema
section
of
TIFF,
which
is
due
to
be
held
on
September
4th,
according
to
the
official
TIFF
website.
Tigers
is
a
based-on-fact
drama
in
which
a
young
salesman,
who
is
devastated
when
he
discovers
the
effects
of
the
infant
formula
he's
peddling,
challenges
the
system
and
the
powers
that
be.
Tanovic,
a
Bosnian
director
famed
for
No
Man's
Land,
has
helmed
the
hard-hitting
project
which
"explores
Pakistan's
fascination
with
Western
drugs".
Emraan's
character
in
the
film
Tigers
is
called
Ayan,
and
he
features
with
a
principal
cast
including
names
like
Geetanjali
Thapa,
Danny
Huston,
Khalid
Abdalla,
Adil
Hussain,
Maryam
D'Abo,
Satyadeep
Misra,
Heino
Ferch,
Sam
Reid,
Supriya
Pathak
and
Vinod
Nagpal.
The
producers
involved
in
the
project
are
Anurag
Kashyap,
Guneet
Monga,
Prashita
Chaudhary,
Kshitij
Chaudhary,
Cedomir
Kolar,
Marc
Baschet,
Andy
Paterson
and
Cat
Villiers,
while
Prerna
Saigal
has
edited
it.