Bharat review – frenetic Salman Khan epic throws everything in the mixer.

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Bollywood strongman’s Eid offering, following a boy separated from his family at partition, packs so much in it’s hard to care about the unification message.

Good chemistry … Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan in Bharat. Photograph: SKF
▼ Since 2015’s cornily effective Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Bollywood strongman Salman Khan has laid siege to the annual Eid holiday, and has done much to restore both a once-tarnished reputationand his box-office clout. For his latest vehicle, he has recalled writer-director Ali Abbas Zafar (who oversaw 2016’s Sultan) to rework the premise of a major east Asian hit: Ode to My Father, from 2014, in which an everyman endured 60 years of Korean history in something like a straight-laced Zelig or Forrest Gump. Star power holds sway in Bollywood, however, and Khan’s hefty grocer, roaming memory lane while awaiting a train, feels like a brother to Sultan’s wrestler-hero. Once more we’re asked to cheer for Salman the survivor, whose bruised, battered, still-staggering bulk is somehow intended to stand for India itself. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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