Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)

March 29, 2019 8:56 PM

An Indian man with a magnanimous heart takes a young mute Pakistani girl back to her homeland to reunite her with her family.
posted by DirtyOldTown (4 comments total)

It's a little weird that there's a "Bollywood Forrest Gump" in production when this exists.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 7:14 PM on April 2, 2019

Actually, that's not fair. This is a better film than Forrest Gump.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:33 AM on April 4, 2019

This is one of my two or three very favorite Indian films. It's big-hearted and sentimental in a way that's wildly out of sync with US tastes, but I loved it.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 4:40 PM on April 4, 2019

This review from The Guardian pretty much nails it.

the kind of package perhaps only Bollywood could now pull together: a movie that feels calculated in its grand design, and yet which plays as wholly sincere and heartfelt on a scene-by-scene basis.

posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:27 AM on April 5, 2019 [1 favorite]