Movies / Hindi
2015 · Drama
A devout Hanuman bhakt tries to take a lost, speechless Pakistani girl home. Kabir Khan directs. It is Salman Khan’s film on this all-time list because the performance is in service of the child, not the other way around.
A mute Pakistani child is left on the Indian side of the border. A devout Hanuman bhakt, who has no papers and no plan, decides he will take her home. Kabir Khan directed. Salman Khan plays Bajrangi. Harshaali Malhotra plays the child. It opened in 2015.
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It grossed ₹918.18 crore worldwide and was the highest-grossing Indian film of 2015. In China it built a following, with an average rating of 8.6 out of 10 on Douban.
Kabir Khan co-wrote and directed it from an original story by V. Vijayendra Prasad, and it was made for ₹75 crore. Salman Khan plays Pawan, a devotee of Hanuman who sets out to take a mute six-year-old girl, separated from her mother, home across the border. Critics praised its story, dialogue and music, and 88% of 17 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are positive. It is now the seventh highest-grossing Hindi film, and in China it was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 2015 Douban Film Awards.
As of 22 October 2026 (source checked).
Source: Wikipedia: Bajrangi Bhaijaan (checked 22 October 2026)
Last checked 15 October 2026.