Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is Salman Khan’s triumph. Salman simply blows the top off the theatres with a double role that makes you laugh, gasp, sigh - and cry.
Salman performs with superb finesse, skillfully creating a caviar-chole bhature cinematic contrast. His Vijay is tense, terse and taut, radiating machismo but no gentleness, loneliness with king-sized ego. His Prem is luminous with life, cheekily cheery - teasing Diwanji as’virgin Bapu’ - then deepening, like sugar stirred into kheer, in silent gazes of hesitant love. The acting is ace - this year is Salman’s finest yet in cinematic grace.