Bajrangi Bhaijaan is simplistic, occasionally silly, and tiringly over-stretched. It's also unashamedly manipulative. But it works.

It remains the kind of package perhaps only Bollywood could now pull together: a movie that feels calculated in its grand design, and yet which plays as wholly sincere and heartfelt on a scene-by-scene basis.

Got an emotional jugular? Bajrangi Bhaijaan is coming for you, hammer and tongs.

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a Salman Khan film so much.