How else can we see him win over Rasika (Kareena Kapoor, delightful with her kohl laden eyes), by calling her a “behenji”. Our Bajrangi, being Hanuman bhakt believes in miracles, but first, he must dilly-dally. She needs a miracle to help her back to her sobbing mother, who is somewhere in Sultanpur.
(Cricketer Shahid Afridi has something to do with her name.) What we know about Shahida is that she was born mute and has a tendency to fall off cliffs, get miraculously saved by trees or jump off trains to save little lambs and land up on Indian soil. So, the cute and mute girl, whom Bajrangi christens Munni (Harshaali Malhotra), happens to be a Pakistani, by the name of Shahida. She doesn't care that the 50-year-old actor is playing a schoolboy who continues to fail his 10th class. Lo and behold, our man is a hero.Īt least the cute little girl staring at him believes in this hero, even though his RSS member dad called him a “zero”. He simply slaps his thigh and kicks up some gulaal, which gives cinematographer Aseem Mishra some great photographic moments. He doesn’t even bother with Salman Khan's trademark pelvic moves. Fortunately for him, this earns him the title of ‘Bhaijaan’, from a Pakistani journalist, Chand Nawab (Nawazuddin Siddiqui).īajrangi never lies because he is a devotee of Hanuman.This means he takes selfies and dances around Hanuman’s statues in loose clothes that make him look like he has tucked into a dozen laddoos first. Since truth is his policy, Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi aka Bajrangi (Salman Khan), tells every Pakistani man and soldier how he has crossed the border from under a tunnel hidden underneath the border gate. Raj Kumar Hirani made bad boy Sanjay Dutt a Munnabhai and the ambassador of Gandhigiri, but Kabir Khan’s Bajrangi may well be the one who takes Gandhi’s peaceful ways across Indo-Pak borders.Īnd to give Kabir Khan credit, Bajrangi Bhaijaan far less preachy and more effective than PK. But, he also cried and he saved little children.ĭirector Kabir Khan has been sharp enough to spot the soft boy in the tough guy image and has given Khan a complete makeover as the innocent Hanuman bhakt who never lies.
He continued to crack silly jokes and play the action hero. Image Courtesy: Twitter with Kick, Khan took a step towards being human in a way that made him the new King Uncle.