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.