Dabangg

Dabangg tells us why Industry needs Salman and how much we missed him- the actor.

Ever since Dabangg's trailers began to appear on tube, it seemed quite apparent that it would be another typical salman khan movie. For some strange reasons, Salman khan has not been able to touch the heights of his peer khans Aamir & Shahrukh when it comes to matching on screen skills. This is more astonishing, because he started with blockbusters 'Maine Pyar Kiya' and 'Sanam Bewafa' and later 'Hum aapke hain kaun' catapulted him way ahead of other khans.
This happened until 1995 when SRK with DDLJ and Amir khan with Sarfarosh, Lagaan et al started pulling off spectacular performances with amazing consistency.

While SRK delivered 'Dil to pagal hai', 'kuchh kuchh hota hai', 'Veer Zara' and 'Swades' . Salman was busy sending sms to Vivek oberoi.
Aamir showcased his other skills in Taare Zameen Par and won National award. It promoted a feeling that if Salman hadn't possessed the great physique that inspired a whole generation to take up body building, He would not even been counted amongst the Khan trioka.
And later Saif Ali Khan (With DCH , Parineeta, Hum Tum ) actually started to threaten his position in the Elite Khan club.

But Salman always had a flair among masses. If you ask the front benchers , He was never away. They danced while theatre played 'le gayi le gayi dil meri chhamiya' in 'Dulhan Hum le jayenge' , Laughed when he danced drunk in 'mujhse shaadi karogi' and day dreamed when he hitched Govinda to woo Katrina.

The intellgentia meanwhile followed SRK on twitter and backed Amir's 10 pack of Ghajni.
Salman khan was forgotten.

It took a debutant director in Abhinav Kashyap to cash in on Salman's pocketed popularity and when he systematically planned to create the character of Chulbul Pandey, he in fact created a bridge between the masses and the sophisticated ones. Robinhood pandey is now setting new benchmarks and winning over more fans from the other side. Fans and critics are raving about Salman’s “old-fashioned masculinity” that has been combined with kitschy mass appeal. “Dabangg’s popularity has cut across the class divide and even those who are not hardcore Salman loyalists are flocking to theatres,” says one trade analyst, referring to box office collections at the multiplexes.



When one of my friend suggested to watch Dabangg , I immediately trashed the idea. So , when I was watching the best Salman performance of all times, I didnt opt for pop corns, I had to eat my words instead ;)