Salman Khan reprises his 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' role in real life

It’s a classic story of real life imitating reel life. On Monday evening, Salman Khan reprised his popular role as Bajrangi Bhaijaan off screen when he united four runaway teenagers with their families. This is something the actor decided to do when he heard stories of how these kids had run away from their homes and now wanted to be reunited with their parents. 

Mumbai-based Antara Desai, who runs a company that helps celebrities associate with various charitable campaigns got in touch with Salman and helped him take on this cause. She says, “Bajrangi Bhaijaan has had a tremendous impact on everyone and Salman was quite keen to help these kids out. He has funded the entire initiative right from paying for the parents to come down, to making sure they have a secure future. On Monday evening, he reunited four kids from different parts of the country — who had run away — with their parents. All four were boys between the ages 11 and 16.”

Describing the emotionally charged atmosphere in Karjat, where the reunion happened she adds, “Salman was very emotional and so were the kids. They had no idea they were meeting Salman and what was going to happen next. A lot of them had run away when they were juveniles, so it was very emotional for the parents to meet them as well.” 

Antara says that this will be an ongoing exercise and some more reunions are being planned in the next few days. “Salman will be associated with this for a long time. He will take care of all the expenses involved in this activity. He truly is a real-life Bajrangi Bhaijaan.”