OMG! Salman Khan turns 70?

With the Tiger franchise changing hands (Kabir Khan directed Ek Tha Tiger, Ali Abbas Zafar is directing Tiger Zinda Hai), it would be but natural to expect leading man Salman Khan’s character to undergo drastic changes. It is learnt that the actor ages from 17 to 70 in the ETT sequel and effectively, plays an old man for the first time in his career.

Says our source, “Ali Abbas has always given Salman something hatke to play. In Sultan, he played a down-and-out wrestler who struggles to get into shape and win. And now, Tiger Zinda Hai will have Salman in a never-seen-before avatar as well. YRF and Ali Abbas don’t want the plot to be revealed yet and are keeping it tightly under wraps, so that the film doesn’t lose its USP. The sequel takes forward the story of Tiger/Manish Chandra/ Avinash Singh Rathore (Salman Khan), who is India’s top spy and an officer of the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW). The film will start from Tiger’s present and then, take his journey forward. TZH will highlight many emotional highs and lows of Tiger’s life and will have equal doses of emotion and action. It will release on Eid in 2018.”

TZH is said to be inspired from a Korean spy drama. However, a source at YRF says, “It is not true. The script is still being worked on.”