Two city kids in Salman Khan’s movie Bharat

Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, November 23

Two city kids will be seen acting on the silver screen in the upcoming Bollywood movie “Bharat”, starring Salman Khan.

The two child artistes — Parth Jindal and Ekam Mahal — are performing one of the main roles in the movie and have just returned from shooting held at Gujrawali village in Ludhiana.

Parth Jindal is a student of St Xavier’s High School and Ekam Mahal is a student of Silver Oaks School in Bathinda. Both are performing the role of Pakistani boys in the movie.

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif and Tabu are performing the lead roles and Ali Abbas Zafar is the director, who has directed many hit movies such as Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Sultan.

While talking to Bathinda Tribune, Parth Jindal said, “I and Ekam Mahal are performing the role of school friends of Salman Khan in the movie.”

He said they had a great experience working with famous director Ali Abbas Zafar and as it was their first movie and a great learning experience for them.

Parth added that in future as well, he would continue working in the industry.

Parth’s father Rohit Jindal said, “Parth has been undergoing training in acting for the past six months and as line producer of the movie, Mukesh Gidderbaha, was in our link. At the beginning of the movie production, they called video of both artistes and the director liked their acting.”

In recent times, many city lads have started making entry in Bollywood. City youth Navnayak Roanta has shared the silver screen with Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar in the Hindi flick, ‘Gold’, which hit the cinema houses on August 15 earlier this year.

Roanta had performed the role of an Anglo-Indian named Percy Pinto, who is a hockey player of the 1948 team, which won a gold medal in the Olympics in London.