<p>Tubelight <br />Hindi (U)**<br />Cast: Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Zhu Zhu, Matin Rey Tangu, Om Puri<br />Director: Kabir Khan<br /><br />Salman stretches his arms, bends and contorts his face like a constipated soul on the commode. <br />No bowel trouble here. It’s his plain superman position to put an end to the India-China war! Why not, even Om Puri uncle has told him that faith can move mountains!<br /><br />So there stands (or sits) our bulked-up hero every morning, looking at the Aksai Chin mountains, trying to bring back his brother (the doubly bulked-up Sohail Khan) from the battlefield.</p>.<p><br />Tubelight is a such a damp log that even a raging forest fire can’t ignite a flicker out of it. Director Kabir Khan had struck a heart-warming chord with his Indo-Pak tale of Bajrangi Bhaijaan, but this one about our eastern neighbour doesn’t even move a muscle, let alone a mountain.<br /><br />Salman plays a man-child mocked by everyone in the village for his tubelight-like late awakening. But he gets his quota of confidence from a magician (surprise cameo) who uses him in a trick to move a bottle. There on, Mr Khan goes about trying his superpowers to bring world peace. And that brings to the picture a ‘chini’ mother-son duo (Zhu Zhu and Matin Rey Tangu) who becomes the villagers’ target during the 1962 war. </p>.<p><br />Salman’s efforts to bridge the gap seem laboured most of the time. His little co-star does a far better job. Even Sohail Khan comes across as a natural.<br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>Tubelight <br />Hindi (U)**<br />Cast: Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Zhu Zhu, Matin Rey Tangu, Om Puri<br />Director: Kabir Khan<br /><br />Salman stretches his arms, bends and contorts his face like a constipated soul on the commode. <br />No bowel trouble here. It’s his plain superman position to put an end to the India-China war! Why not, even Om Puri uncle has told him that faith can move mountains!<br /><br />So there stands (or sits) our bulked-up hero every morning, looking at the Aksai Chin mountains, trying to bring back his brother (the doubly bulked-up Sohail Khan) from the battlefield.</p>.<p><br />Tubelight is a such a damp log that even a raging forest fire can’t ignite a flicker out of it. Director Kabir Khan had struck a heart-warming chord with his Indo-Pak tale of Bajrangi Bhaijaan, but this one about our eastern neighbour doesn’t even move a muscle, let alone a mountain.<br /><br />Salman plays a man-child mocked by everyone in the village for his tubelight-like late awakening. But he gets his quota of confidence from a magician (surprise cameo) who uses him in a trick to move a bottle. There on, Mr Khan goes about trying his superpowers to bring world peace. And that brings to the picture a ‘chini’ mother-son duo (Zhu Zhu and Matin Rey Tangu) who becomes the villagers’ target during the 1962 war. </p>.<p><br />Salman’s efforts to bridge the gap seem laboured most of the time. His little co-star does a far better job. Even Sohail Khan comes across as a natural.<br /><br /><br /></p>