Īmidst the hills of Sultanpur, a picturesque village in Pakistan, lives Shahida Aziz, named after Pakistani Cricketer, Shahid Afridi, a mute six-year-old girl, with her parents. It was also nominated for Best Foreign Film in China's 2015 Douban Film Awards. It won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment at the 63rd National Film Awards, and was nominated for four awards at the 61st Filmfare Awards, including Best Film and Best Actor, and won the Filmfare Award for Best Story. It grossed ₹969 crore ( $150 million) worldwide, and is currently the third highest-grossing Indian film and second highest-grossing Bollywood film. The film received wide acclaim from critics who praised the storyline, dialogues, music, cinematography, performances (particularly those of Khan, Siddiqui and Malhotra) and the direction. Julius Packiam composed the film score while the songs featured in the film were composed by Pritam.
The cinematography was done by Aseem Mishra and was edited by Rameshwar S. Made on a budget of ₹90 crore (US$12 million), the principal photography commenced in November 2014. Co-produced by Salman Khan and Rockline Venkatesh, it stars Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and debutante Harshaali Malhotra, and tells the story of Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi, an ardent devotee of Hindu deity Hanuman, who embarks on a journey to take a mute six-year-old Pakistani Muslim girl Shahida, separated in India from her parents, back to her hometown in Pakistan. Brother Bajrangi) is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Kabir Khan who co-wrote the film with K.
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