It’s difficult to dislike Laal Singh Chaddha—the new Aamir Khan movie, now out on streaming—when it’s trying to be such an uplifting, anti-hate epic.
We discuss the film’s unwillingness to deviate from Forrest Gump, Khan’s divisive central performance, and the manner in which it cherrypicks the moments from history it wants to include (and those that it doesn’t).
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(00:24) Review: Laal Singh Chaddha
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