Geeta was found wandering near the India border in Lahore in 2002 and was taken by soldiers of Pakistan Rangers. "She explains the address of her hometown to anybody who visits her, hoping that the more she explains, the better her chances of returning to her family." "She wants people to find her family in India," said Faisal Edhi, the head of Edhi Foundation. But for the past few days, she is carrying the swagger of a celebrity as the local media is flocking the shelter home to follow up on her story after the release of Salman Khan Starrer Bajrangi Bhaijan in Pakistan. Pakistan has always been portrayed as a dusty place, sprawling with goats and men in pathanis/ kaftans flaunting beards of varying lengths.For the past 13 years, Geeta has been living in Pakistan, but she refuses to call it her home.Ĭlad in a regular shalwar kameez, this Indian girl, who can neither hear nor speak, does not look any different from the other girls staying at the Edhi Shelter Home in Karachi’s old city area of Sharafa Bazar. Kabir Khan deserves credit for narrating a story that has the masala of a Hindi film, yet doesn’t give in to the mould like in Ek Tha Tiger.
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But trade pundits who associate three-digit crores with Salman films would argue otherwise.Ĭhild actress Harshaali does a great job in this wordless debut, specially winning for her various eyes: ‘surprised’ like the Olsen twins (in Full House) and ‘delighted’ like a young Dakota Fanning. Where the story leads to is obvious but the journey to the end is enjoyable, even if a bit melodramatic in parts.įor an actor, ditching tried-and-tested characters could mean economic disaster. Chand joins Bhajrangi and Munni and the trio often find themselves in thrilling and hilarious situations.
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Well, getting across the border doesn’t take much time or effort but since the film has to clock 159 minutes, there are several misadventures before Munni is delivered to her parents.Ī highlight of the film is Chand Nawaz (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a character inspired by a Youtube video of a TV reporter getting trolled during a coverage.
Soon, he also discovers that she is from Pakistan (he spots her cheering for the Pakistani cricket team) and the rest of the film is dedicated to his efforts to reach her across the border.
Munni (how he refers to her, not knowing her name) once fed by Bhajrangi, tails him around till he swears to find her parents and reach her to them.Ī comic take on religious intolerance follows as Bhajrangi’s Brahmin sensibilities are shattered to learn that munni is a “Mohammedan”.This - he discovers when Munni hops across to the Muslim neighbours to attack a piece of tandoori chicken. But somewhere between sagai and ‘You need to afford a house to marry my daughter’, Bhajrangi bumps into a mute Paki girl (Harshaali Malhotra) who accidentally jumped off the Samjhauta Express. Pehelwan refers him to some odd job at his daughter Rasika’s (Kareena Kapoor in a wasted cameo) school.Ī montage of Bhajrangi and Rasika doing things and going places together to the tune of a love song conveys the inevitable. He arrives at Pehelwan Digambar’s (Sharat Saxena) Delhi home, looking for a means for rozi-roti. As shown in the trailer, this is the story of Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi (Salman Khan), who is a Hanuman-devotee (hence called Bhajrangi).