new delhi deaf and mute indian woman geeta is set to return home from pakistan after 12 years thanks largely to salman khanstarrer bollywood film bajrangi bhaijaans success the reel life story of the films main character shahida aka munni mirrors that of geetas real life geeta was found alone on the lahore railway station after she got off the samjautha express she had mysteriously boarded the crossborder train after attending a fair on the indian side of punjab where her father worked as a mason likewise munni gets off a train in the film while chasing a sheep as her mother falls asleep while the two travel to india for pilgrimage the waves that the film made with its rare sensitive portrayal of crossborder characters and parallels it drew with geetas story stirred an inert bureaucracy into action the urgency fructified when geeta identified her family in a remote bihar river island village whose photographs were arranged based on the details she managed to scribble about it in hindi geeta would be handed over to her family in bihar after a dna test upon her return to india on october 26 while another uttar pradesh couple too is claiming her as their lost daughter hopefully geeta would be able to find her real family sooner to help her reach closure after a decadelong ordeal but the torrid time she spent away from her family has a silver lining for geeta as well as the lovehate and schizophrenic relationship between india and pakistan she was loved and cared for deeply so much so that a small temple with several deities was built for her to pray when her hosts realised she was a hindu she would bring the temple along with her the focus on geetas extraordinary story importantly coincides with very difficult times in usuallythorny indiapakistan ties it again reaffirms innate goodness something bajrangi bhaijaan too underlined of ordinary human beings on the either side of the divide and such instances galore pakistani girl saba suffering from a rare disorder returned home after ordinary mumbai people crowdfunded her treatment on october 12 the generosity of sabas benefactors was overshadowed by shiv senas attack on activist sudheendra kulkarni for hosting expakistan foreign minister khurshid mahmud kasuris book launch on the same day but typical smallmindedness of the sena cannot outweigh love and care dozens of kids like saba have found in mumbai hospitals mostly hate mongers hog all the limelight while men like abdul sattar edhi who has been to geeta what salmans character was to munni in bhajrangi bhaijaan remain virtually unknown in the either country edhi and his wife bilquees have been like geetas parents since she strayed across the border and was sheltered at one of their shelter homes geeta is among tens of thousands whom edhi has helped since the 1950s when he begged on karachi streets to buy a rickety ambulance for his charity work edhis charity empire took off in 1957 when