Anurag Basu’s latest film Barfi!, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in lead roles, is being touted as one that can change Bollywood’s perception about the abilities of the disabled. Mainstream Bollywood cinema has always found it tough to seamlessly integrate the differently abled into its plotline.

Harbinger of change? A mainstream actor such as Ranbir Kapoor playing a differently abled character is a rare sight in Hindi cinema