![]() ![]() While Khan could hardly be expected to pull off a Forrest Gump, what we get here is even worse than Koi Mil Gaya: Tubelight is the story of a developmentally disabled man whose superpower is making constipated sounds. With this one, alas, he goes "full retard" as Robert Downey Jr dismissively scoffed in Tropic Thunder. Salman hasn't had to actually act for a while now, though he has been making more of an effort in Kabir's films. The message being sent out with this film is: poor little superstar who doesn't know better. A child who lives on mollycoddling and affirmation? It's not hard to see why Kabir would cast this particular actor, though it is intensely problematic that the Salman Khan public relations initiative is plumbing such shameless depths. ![]() Little Boy is about an eight year old child coming to grips with the futility of war, indulged by townsfolk to believe in his own magic. ![]() Well, as faithful as it can be considering it stars a man 40 years too old to play the lead. ![]() Tubelight is a remake of a 2015 American release called Little Boy, a film which sounds obnoxiously manipulative to begin with, and - going by synopses - the Hindi rendition seems slavishly faithful. Tubelight Movie Review: Sohail and Salman Khan in a film stillĪs with war, any escape is valid, you see. ![]()
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