There is nothing wrong with my species, as long as we don't lead by nth century rules. Now, he fought like any other king in the country to keep his power. That's it. Despite his cunningness, lost and got killed and guess who laid siege? Soldiers of Hyderabad Nizams
under the brits of course.
Also, Tipu is nobody's favourite unless they are some nutjob who wants to relieve his fanatic state, and people don't like him not because he was some Muslim, but he was a murderous pig and, died like a dog (what you call kuttey ki maut) as a commemoration we celebrate it by naming our dogs in his name. Tipu is a common name for dogs in South India.
We also mock his defeat when he invaded my state like this, It's a temple tower clock showing two 'goats'
banging Tipu. Temple is famous, it's recently named the richest temple in the world.
PS : This has nothing to do with Muslim rather his actions that resulted in the hatred. Nobody in South India makes a fuss about Nizams though, although he had a very 'colourful' post independence history.
Pakistanis have a habit of making random Muslim kings their hero, especially the ones that have a bloody history, so it's nothing surprising I'd be surprised if some Turkish or some Iranian folks make a movie of him. Remember you hilariously named your Missile Ghauri after we named ours Prithvi