Bajrangi Bhaijaan
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Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)
Crew
Directed by
Kabir Khan
Written by
Vijayendra Prasad
Produced by
Salman Khan
Kabir Khan
Music
Pritam Chakraborty
Background Score
Julius Packiam
Cinematography
Aseem Mishra
Cast
Salman Khan, film actor, as Bajrangi
Kareena Kapoor as Rasika
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as the Pakistani reporter
Emraan Hashmi
Ali Quli Mirza
Najeem Khan
Mir Sarwar
…and Harshaali Malhotra
Indpaedia has a special page about the little doll who has already taken India and Pakistan by storm, Harshaali Malhotra
Locations
Bajrangi Bhaijaan was shot in:
New Delhi: November 2014
Mandawa, near Shekhawati in Rajasthan: January 2015, including at the Fort
Jhunjhunu district: January 2015
Kashmir, mainly Pahalgam: April,May 2015
Reviews
‘As expected, Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor starrer "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" has opened to rave reviews from film critics,’ IBTimes wrote a few hours after the film’s first reviews started coming in.
Imdb summed up the First Day’s reviews with an average of **** four stars from selected reviews and an 8.3/10 rating from 123 votes.
The Times of India gave the film **** four stars out of five.
Srijana Mitra Das wrote: ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan is Salman Khan's most daring film where Salman presents a beautiful performance - but allows the story to be the real dabangg… With Bajrangi, you meet a whole new Salman - this is not the shirt-ripping, ab-flaunting, dialogue-maro-ing Khan but a simple, innocent and honest man, who fails, gets tricked and beaten up - but never shaken from his purpose.
‘With gentleness and no gimmicks, Salman puts on a polished, luminous performance …Bajrangi Bhaijaan is a pure South Asian jalebi, rounded, warm, simple and sweet. Kabir captures the tension of India-Pakistan without negativity and with soft charm, skillfully using a superstar as an actor, a child artist as a superstar and a border as a muse that opens up the world.’
India Today gave the film 3.5 out of 5.
Ananya Bhattacharya went to the extent of asking ‘Bajrangi Bhaiijaan is a Salman Khan film. Honestly, why does one even need a review!?’ However, Bhattacharya added, Bajrangi Bhaiijaan ‘does have Salman, sure, but he's hardly the driving force of the film; What shines through more than anything else in this film are two people - Nawazuddin Siddiqui and child artiste Harshaali Malhotra.’
Almost all critics agreed on the contributions of Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Harshaali Malhotra.
‘In all, Bajrangi Bhaijaan works for both a Salman fan and a non-fan,’ Bhattacharya concluded.
Bhattacharya’s India Today colleague Suhani Singh gave the film 2 ½ stars. Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express also gave 2 ½ stars. So did Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV: another 2 ½ stars. India Today’s average of these 5 leading reviewers was *** 3 stars out of 5.
ndtv.com echoed the mood of the critics. It wrote: ‘Watch Bajrangi Bhaijaan even if you aren't an inveterate Salman Khan fan. Harshaali will steal your heart.’
Indian Express said: ‘An adorable little girl, a superstar named Salman Khan - bhaiyya, and behena presenting 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan'.’
KoiMoi.com gave the film 3.5/5 stars, adding, ‘What's Good: Emotion, drama, humour- in short, the Salman Khan package of entertainment.’
Hindustan Times gave the film 2 ½ stars. Rohit Vats wrote:
‘Kabir Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan is one film that will bring them to the theatres in droves and you'd do yourself a favour by keeping quiet even if you think this film is over the top. But then, chances are that you may also love it.’
Mid-Day’s Shubha Shetty Saha wrote:
‘If you think you have to leave your brains at home for a Salman Khan film, be surprised. This one will need you to take your heart along with your brains as well. For above everything else, 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' sure has its heart in its right place.
‘This movie portrays secularism in an unpreachy, fun way. No taxing jingoism, no chest beating dialogues, instead you are served self-effacing humour and smart lines
‘The story (by V.Vijayendra Prasad) is about conversion. No, not the archaic one religion to another kind, but of the humane variety; from being conditioned to be rigid about one's own religion to peacefully accepting to co-exist with the unique ways of other religions.
‘Salman Khan pleasantly surprises with his un-hero like …and Nawazuddin, who's trusted to make his characters most believable is perfectly cast. But it is the little Harshaali Malhotra who will steal your heart with her angelic face and evidently natural talent.
‘Be ready to want to wolf whistle, even when you have a tear or two stealthily streaming down your cheek. Watch it.’
Karan Johar tweeted much the same: There wasn't a dry eye at the end of the screening
Box office collections
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The Rs500 crore club?
Films that make viewers’ eyes go wet are those that connect with them. Bajrangi Bhaijaan has obviously done that. which is why in yet another article in India Today Ananya Bhattacharya speculated if the film would collect Rs500 crore—just under one and a half times the previous record—at the international box office.
Bhattacharya proved right. And by a margin.
Worldwide total
(Domestic + overseas)
After 3 days: Rs226.64 crore gross
After 4 days: Rs264.45 crore gross
After 6 days: roughly Rs.304 crore (gross)
After 8 days: Rs197.77 crore (domestic net) + Rs83.29 crore (overseas gross)
After 9 days: Rs.350.27 crore worldwide
After 11 days: Rs 453.11 crore worldwide (Dom Gross Rs337.52 crore; Dom Net Rs250.02 crore; Overseas: Rs115.59 crore gross)
After 12 days: Rs472 crore (worldwide); Domestic net Rs. 259.12 cr; Dom. gross Rs349.81 crore; overseas Rs122 crore.
After 13 days: (Worldwide must be around Rs485 crore) (Rs266.22 crore Dom Net Overseas total $ 20 million i.e Rs128 crore (on 29 July))
After 14 days: Rs.508 crore Worldwide; Dom NetRs272.25 crore Dom gro