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Salman Khan’s 2015 film Bajrangi Bhaijaan, also starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Harshali Malhotra and Kareena Kapoor Khan among others, was a blockbuster hit. Helmed by Kabir Khan, the film was appreciated for its sensitive portrayal of India-Pakistan relations. However, had the makers gone for a different climax, it would have been an ever bigger hit, felt filmmaker SS Rajamouli. The story of Bajrangi Bhaijaan was written by Rajamouli’s father V Vijayendra Prasad.
The film is about the journey of Pawan Chaturvedi, also called Bajrangi (Khan), to reunite a speech-impaired girl named Munni with her parents in Pakistan. In the climax, Munni is taken home by Pawan’s friend and Pakistani reporter, Chand Nawab, played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
During his latest appearance on the show Aap Ki Adalat, Salman shared how not just him, but even Rajamouli wanted that in the climax, the little girl from Pakistan should have been reunited with her mother by Pawan and not by Chand Nawab. He said, “I just thought in Bajrangi Bhaijaan climax and even (SS) Rajamouli pointed out to his father Mr Vijayendra Prasad that that visual was not supposed to be of Nawazuddin Siddiqui. That last visual of Munni going to the mother should have been Pawan’s, should have been mine. He, throughout the film, keeps saying, ‘Main chorr kar aaunga, main chorr kar aaunga (I will take her to her home).”
Salman continued, “It should have been like that emotion that he sees at the mother and the child together and then he gets shot. That would have been the most beautiful scene ever.” Though the actor is content that the film was a hit, he feels, “it would have been a bigger hit” had the climax been changed as per his and Rajamouli’s suggestion.
The actor, however, also praised the script of the film saying that he did not require to act in the movie as it was written so well. He said, “There was no acting required in that film. It was such a film where you just go on the set and get into that feel. It was so well-written.”
Bajrangi Bhaijaan was not only a superhit in India but was also loved by movie buffs in China.
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