Bajrangi Bhaijaan

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (translatable as Brother Bajrangi) is an Indian Hindi-language adventure comedy drama film released in 2015. It stars It stars Salman Khan and Harshaali Malhotra, along with Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Kareena Kapoor.

Shahida (Malhotra) is an adorable 6-year old Pakistani girl that lives in a very picturesque village. Unfortunately, she was born mute, which proves dangerous after an incident where she couldn't call for help after falling down a cliff. After having exhausted medical options on their quest to restore their daughter speech, Shahida's parents decide, as a last resource, to takes her to the shrine of Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi. Unfortunately, in the return trip just before crossing the border, the train stops for repairs and Shahida gets off to save a lamb. The train drives off before Shahida can re-board it, and in her confusion, she boards a freight train and winds up in Kurukshetra, Haryana, during the festivities honoring the Hindu god Lord Hanuman (usually also named Bajrangbali).

In Kurukshetra, Shahida is found by Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi alias Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Khan), a devout Hindu Brahmin and an ardent devotee of Lord Hanuman. Pawan, unable to find her parents and not knowing what to do with the girl, decides to name her Munni and brings him back to Delhi. Pawan is a simpleton of great heart and honesty but few smarts, so his best idea is to bring the girl to the house he lives along with his fianceé Rasika Pandey (Kapoor) and his in-laws, all of them also Hindu Brahmins, on the belief that the kid is Brahmin as well. Pawan and rasika trie very hard to investigate where Munni comes from, without real success. The girl, however, soon leaves very clear her actual nationality and religion by performing Muslim rituals in a nearby mosque and supporting Pakistan's team during a televised India-Pakistan cricket match. Rasika's father, feeling deceived, demands the kid removed from his house ASAP.

But as Pawan tries to return Munni to her country he gets all legal ways blocked. When Pawan to explain the case to the Pakistani High Commission, he gets mocked, and then violent protestors force them to close. And when Pawan entrust Munni to a travel agent, the man instead tried to sell the girl to a brothel, a fate Pawan impedes on time.


 * Adult Fear: the film is made of it:
 * The premise: imagine that you are doing a routine travel, and your child gets stranded behind. Worse enough, your children is disabled and can't communicate, and you can't go back because of legal wire
 * The incident that kickstarted the plot: imagine your mute child falling of a cliff, getting stranded in a tree for god knows how long and being unable to call for help.
 * Bajrangi discovering that he unknowingly entrusted the safety of a child to a person that sold her for what is very probably sexual slavery, and he only discovered it because he returned to the place to give her a parting gift just on time to see the child and her guardian leave the place. He manages to rescue her on time, but imagine if he hasn't decided to give
 * Book Dumb: Pawan. It's established that he spent around 10 years for finishing high school, and took him 12 tries to finally graduate college
 * Cute Mute: Shahida/Munni
 * Establishing Character Moment: Watch carefully "Selfie Re Re Re" and read the subtitles of the song. It tells you exactly what type of person Bajrangi is.
 * Innocent Bigot: Pawan. He gets extremely surprised that a lightskinned child like Munni is actualñly a Muslim Pakistani.
 * Named After Somebody Famous: Shahida got her name after the pakistani cricket player Shahid Afridi.

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