For the most part though, the historical events cited in Bharat serve more as markers of dates rather than having any interesting or deep connotation in the context of the leading man's bio. The format of this film is brimming with potential, and has been tapped brilliantly by cinema in the past, Hollywood's Forrest Gump being a shining example. While both comments in Bharat are in themselves brave in the sense that they defy the mob, I suppose the decision to steer clear of 2014 too can be deemed a statement, its import possibly depending on which side of the political divide you stand on. Another former PM much reviled in recent years is projected as a hottie earlier in the film. This is an unexpected ode to the former FM-turned-PM who has been much maligned, reviled and mocked in the public discourse in the past 5 years, most recently in the Hindi film PM Narendra Modi. The 1990s are heralded in the film with the narrator announcing that the new decade was marked by the arrival of two new heroes, Shah Rukh Khan (that's very generous of you, Bhai) and Sachin Tendulkar, "but the real hero was (Finance Minister) Manmohan Singh" for transforming India's economy. Clearly Zafar wants to make a political statement yet stay safe while doing so (the fact that he needs to protect himself is a sad reflection on the current state of our nation, but that is a separate discussion). The voice-over in the trailer had announced, "this country was born 71 years back." Why then does Bharat's story stop not at 2018 but at 2010 with the words "the beginning" on screen? Therein lies a tale.
SALMAN KHAN IN BHARAT MOVIE TV
Post-Partition refugee camps, Jawaharlal Nehru's death, India's 1983 cricket World Cup victory, economic liberalisation in the 1990s, the 21st century television boom and more pass by parallel to Bharat's initial struggle to survive in Delhi, his time as a daredevil motorbike rider in a circus, migration to the Middle East for work, his life-long friendship with the banana-eating Syyed Vilayati Khan (Sunil Grover), his long-standing relationship with the government official turned TV anchor Kumud Raina (Katrina Kaif) and unexpected good news. Along the way, several familiar historical milestones are crossed. As the extended family gathers for his birthday, Bharat (played by Khan) recounts his journey between 19 in flashback. When we first meet him he is an old man touching 70. His entire existence since has been devoted to keeping the promise made to his Dad (Jackie Shroff) that he would take care of the family. He was a boy of 8 and a resident of Gaon Mirpur, Lahore, when his life was torn apart by the cruelty of Partition.
Bharat sputters on that front but scores elsewhere with mixed results: it is occasionally heart-breaking, occasionally funny, often political albeit hesitantly so, but by and large just plain dull.īased on the Korean film Ode To My Father, Bharat is a voyage through post-Independence India while walking alongside a common man whose name is Bharat with no surname attached. Whatever their lacunae may have been, Zafar was successful in mining Khan's natural goofiness in both, the latter film also playing up the actor's trademark unembarrassed, unapologetic on-screen bravado to hilarious effect. Salman Khan partnered Zafar on the writer-director's Sultan and Tiger Zinda Hai with spectacular box-office outcomes. Salman Khan in various avatars in Bharat.
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