Ahead of the release of Salman Khan‘s Bajrangi Bhaijaan, the actor took to micro-blogging site Twitter to thank the Censor Boards of Pakistan. Two boards have cleared the film in the country, and Kabir Khan’s latest film will be on Pakistani screens soon.
Year after year, Salman Khan wins hearts with his mere appearance on the silver screen. And no matter what else a film has got to offer, everything fades in front of the aura of Salman The Superstar, Salman The Superhuman. However, Kabir Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan is not quite in that bracket. It does have Salman, sure, but he’s hardly the driving force of the film; contradictory POVs be damned. What shines through more than anything else in this film are two people – Nawazuddin Siddiqui and child artiste Harshaali Malhotra.Actor/singer and chairman of the Sindh Censor Board, Fakhr-e-alam had tweeted aboutBajrangi Bhaijaan, calling it the ‘most positive film for Pakistan that Bollywood has produced in a long time’:
“Surat dekhi hai iski,” asks Salman’s Pavan Kumar Chaturvedi to a policeman in a police station, while trying to explain Munni’s (Harshaali) plight. And by the end of this near-three-hour film, the girl’s face is among the things that stay with you.