Bharat tries to build a new life for his family in India, but the image of his father at the train station remains etched in his memory.Ī young Bharat polishes shoes and does menial jobs to help his mother supplement their meager income. His father stays behind to look for her, and the family is torn apart.īharat, his mother ( Sonali Kulkarni) and two younger siblings take shelter at an aunt's house in Old Delhi. As his family scrambles to catch the last train to India, Bharat’s sister gets lost in the melee. His family is among the millions to move to the country from the newly-carved out state of Pakistan in 1947. His arrival in India on the eve of independence is a somber one. Bharat’s fate is firmly intertwined with that of India, as we are reminded throughout the film. We see him take on five bad guys single-handedly, punching his way to victory in a matter of minutes.īased on the 2014 Korean film “ Ode to my Father”, “Bharat” charts the life of one man, set against the backdrop of the milestones India crosses in the nearly 72 years since it gained independence from the British. With his sculpted body, kickboxing skills and baritone voice, his cantankerous demeanor is the sole giveaway of his old age.
The titular character is first introduced to us as a septuagenarian, but age is just a number here.
“Take care of the family,” is what his father had requested him to do, and Bharat vows to keep his word no matter what, till his last breath.In “Bharat”, Khan makes a departure from the roles we’re used to seeing him play – that of much younger characters. In the midst of a wide-ranging subject, what forms the crux is Bharat and his mother (Sonali Kulkarni) and sister Mehek (Kashmira Irani) getting separated from his railway station master father (Jackie Shroff) and sister (Tabu), and his life’s mission to fulfil his word he made to his father as their train left Pakistan and headed towards Delhi. And they have a long span (1947 to 2010) to justify the inclusion of almost every emotion - from slices of history to scenes of familial bonding, friendship, love for the motherland, Indo-Pak Partition, the circus, separation, love, romance, India’s 1983 World Cup victory, the 167-minute film packs in everything punctuated with songs and dances too, even if factual inaccuracies are glossed over. Director Ali Abbas Zafar teams up with Khan yet again in Bharat (they worked together in Sultan and Tiger Zinda Hai earlier) to give us a pot pourri of everything that they probably believe Indian audiences love watching.
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