Most of the time the rulers were not interested in serving the people and working for the welfare of the public instead they spent their time in foolish pursuits. These kings lived under the thumb rule of British, hence they fear them. The writer takes us to the days of autocratic and eccentric kings. The story ‘The Tiger King’ is a satire on the pride and stubbornness of those in power. Krishnamurthy began his primary education in his village school and later attended Municipal High School in Mayavaram but quit in 1921 for joining Gandhiji’s call for non-co-operation. Krishnamurthy’s father was Ramaswamy Aiyar, a poor accountant in Puttamangalam village in the old Tanjore district of erstwhile Madras Presidency. His writings includes over 120 short stories, 10 novelettes, 5 novels, 3 historical romances, editorial and political writings and hundreds of film and music reviews. He derived his pen name Kalki from the suffixes of his wife name Kalyani and his name Krishnamurthy. He was better known by his pen name Kalki. Immigrant stories certainly don't demand tragedy to be legitimate, but The Tiger Hunter, with its pastiche of fish-out-of-water comedy and pointy collared shirts, ultimately feels weightless.Ramaswamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy was a Tamil writer, journalist, poet, critic and Indian independence activist. We don't get much in the way of Sami's psychology his father (the tiger hunter), died when he was young, and the flashbacks to Sami's childhood seem to come from a different movie, one that might focus more on hero worship and self-actualization and present a more unique perspective than this rather watered-down portrait of the immigrant experience. The men work together to figure out how to engineer a microwave (yet another reminder that it's the 70s), impressing Sami's boss at the company where he works as a lowly draughtsman. At a fountain, where Sami offers a bit of pointed social commentary in his observation that Americans are casually willing to throw money away, he meets another immigrant and moves in with him and his affable roommates - who all share a single bed. The film follows a familiar plot: Sami (Danny Pudi) tries to make it in America and experiences culture shock, but everything works out pretty much okay. The outfits look straight out of a cheap 70s Halloween costume kit, but the colors onscreen are too bright and digital to feel period appropriate, and when a character mentions The Dukes of Hazard it doesn't do much more than elicit a small nod of recognition.
The Tiger Hunter, a 1979-set drama about a young aspiring engineer who emigrates to Chicago from India, relies too heavily on cutesy, perfunctory period references. It's a shame, then, when such stories are told in a predictable fashion.
Stories of immigrant life are more important than ever.
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