There really couldn’t be a better movie for Salman Khan right now than this. See? He’s the sort of fellow who never tells a lie, prays a lot, and risks sneaking across the Pakistani border to reunite a little girl with her family, not someone who gets drunk and runs over homeless people. Anyway, I’ve come to terms with Salman Khan the person versus Salman Khan the actor, and I do enjoy the latter quite a lot. It’s just that this film, and the winning image of a little girl riding on Salman's back is awfully well-timed, coincidence or not.
It’s also really sweet and well worth the watch. So there’s this little girl in Pakistan, Shahida (Harshaali Malhotra, the most adorable child artist I’ve seen in, like, ever) who likes goats, cricket, and wandering off where no one can find her. She’s also mute. Her mother takes her to a shrine in Delhi to pray that she will speak, but on the way back she wanders off the train and is left behind in India.
