When Aziz Ansari wrote “Indians on TV,” the fourth episode in the first season of his superb Netflix series, Master of None, he wrote it to critique projects like The Tiger Hunter: innocuous ...
The Tiger Hunter, the opening night film for the Center for Asian American Media’s annual film festival (CAAMFest), could not arrive at a more pertinent and fragile moment. Coming to San Francisco on ...
Growing up in California, Lena Khan would hear stories about her grandfather Qasim, who she said became a local legend in rural India after killing a tiger that was terrorizing the community in the ...
When director Lena Khan started writing what would eventually become The Tiger Hunter, starring Danny Pudi, she had a very different vision. The first script was an amalgam of stories from her father ...
PREVIOUSLY, April 25: Lena Khan’s comedy feature, The Tiger Hunter has been acquired by the Shout! Factory for all distribution avenues in North America, including theatrical. Written by Sameer ...
There has been no shortage of films tracking the immigrant pursuit of the American dream, but few have been as laugh-out-loud delightful as “The Tiger Hunter,” a sparkling first feature by Lena Khan.