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Laila Kapoor (Kalki Koechlin) is the letters to SRK go unanswered, she finds
protagonist of Shonali Bose’s film, but the out that the star is shooting in Rajasthan.
one who encourages the young woman Pari and her brother embark on a 300 km
with cerebral palsy to live life to the journey across the desert to meet him, in
fullest is Khanum (Sayani Gupta) a blind the hope that he will help Chhotu with the
Pakistani-Bangladeshi woman. Laila, who operation that will enable him to see again.
is struggling with rejection and trying to
come to terms with her sexuality, falls in Kaabil (2017):
love with Khanum. She is impressed and
inspired by Khanum’s independence and
joie de vivre, and her ability to rise above
her disability.
Dhanak (2015):
Hrithik Roshan played a visually-
challenged dubbing artiste in this Sanjay
Gupta film. When his wife (Yami Gautam),
also blind, is raped and killed, he uses the
power of his other senses to go after the
politician and his brother (Ronit and Rohit
Roy who committed the crime. He uses the
In this charming Nagesh Kukunoor ability to alter his voice, his strong sense of
film, Pari (Hetal Gada) loves her blind smell to find the culprits, lure them where
brother Chotu’s (Krrish Chhabria), and he want them to be, and stage their deaths
has promised him that before his ninth to look like suicide. A cop suspects him, but
birthday, he will have his sight back. cannot understand how a sightless man
She sees a poster of Shah Rukh Khan could have gone about trapping and killing
encouraging eye donations. When her those men.
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