Sami has some big shoes to fill and he's not certain that he can live up to his father's greatness. For, you see, Sami's father was this great tiger hunter that Sami idolized and his entire village loved.
As far as this movie goes, however, it tells an engineer's journey from his small Indian village to Chicago so he can live the American dream, become a success and maybe, just maybe, live up to his father's great legacy. Funny how life works, huh? Regardless, that's neither here nor there. All of the president's children were mothered by TWO immigrant women. The president's mother is, in fact, an immigrant. Of course it wasn't called the American dream just yet, but they were searching for a lot of the same things that latter immigrants (of which they're part of) And then the current president came along and decided that, if you weren't a full-blooded (mostly white) American, then your American dream could get fucked and completely took a shit on the immigrants who laid the groundwork for most of what we have here this day. Hell, even the first Pilgrims were in search of their dreams and freedom from persecution. The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of hope and freedom to these people. The reason why so many immigrants decided to come to the United States where, they felt, everyone has a shot at success as long as they work hard.
The film released in fall of 2018 across the United States, in over 50 cities. In August 2014, it was confirmed that the cast included Danny Pudi, Jon Heder, Iqbal Theba, Kevin Pollak, Karen David, and Samuel Page.
The film was funded through a Kickstarter campaign. In January 2013, it was announced that Lena Khan would be directing a comedy film titled The Tiger Hunter from her own script.
Left to right: actors Jon Heder, Rizwan Manji, Danny Pudi, Karen David, producer Megha Kadakia, director and writer Lena Khan discuss The Tiger Hunter at Carmel Film Festival in 2016 Sami fails to impress Ruby when she and her strict father visit Chicago on a tour of the U.S., but at the film's conclusion he, Alex, and Babu are seen driving to California to catch up with her and plead his case again, now that he is a gainfully employed engineer. Frank is so grateful for the help that he gives them all jobs. They succeed in building a non-exploding microwave that also heats frozen food properly and present it to the company head, just in time for him to make a deal to manufacture it. After several failures, Sami enlists the help of his roommate engineers.
Alex helps Sami in his efforts to succeed, encouraging him to work on the company's biggest current project-creating a microwave oven that can properly heat frozen food without blowing up. Sami meets Alex Womack, the son of the company's head (Frank Womak), who has eschewed corporate life and prefers to take Polaroid photographs of depressed persons. His misfit roommates concoct an elaborate farce in order for him to romance his childhood crush, Ruby Iqbal. He moves in with several other under-employed engineers and a Pakistani chef (Babu Rahman) who have emigrated to the U.S. Trained as an engineer, Sami Malik's dream is initially thwarted and he must take a temporary job as a lowly draftsman in an electronics company. A young Indian man, the son of a beloved tiger hunter, comes to Chicago in 1979 on a quest for success.