Cast: Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma
Director:- Ali Abbas Zafar
There’s a good side to Sultan, and there’s a bad one too. While the story is just a retelling of many tales told before on celluloid, there is an honesty with which this movie drives its emotions and its intensity. Once the filmmaking formula does its job, the subtle moments of truthfulness and some decent dialogue hit a sweeping slam. In terms of ingenuity and freshness, Sultan is average fare, but when it comes down to the strength of certain ideas at work, it does manage to keep a tight hold on its audience.
Salman Khan’s transformation within the film, where he goes from being the akhade ka pehelwan to a mixed martial arts contender is quintessential movie drama. It helps the narrative move along, but it isn’t the smartest bit of writing. It makes Sultan a little far-fetched and it distracts from the solid love story and conflict between Arfa’s and Sultan’s characters. The scenes where Anushka Sharma and Salman Khan admit to and resolve their differences are spectacular. The dialogue on offer in these scenes of emotional impact is superb. Even those moments where the film adds grey shades to Sultan’s character and then shows him as a desperate and defeated individual are worth a mention. But then, the movie also tries too hard to make an orthodox hero out of it’s protagonist. The idea that he must win against all odds just feels like a cop out.