Mix bag with Good performances , nice direction and pretty good fight sequences.

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2016)

SULTAN - I am a little confused with the fact that whether it is a Biopic or not. Because in earlier stage it has been promoted as a biopic , but now Wikipedia doesn't say that its a biopic. But i can surely assure that the movie doesn't seems like a biopic. WHY ? - because its a Yash Raj Production's film. So the story goes like this (the usual YRF formula) . The movie starts with side story , which somehow connects with our hero. Hero is not much living a happy life . WHY ? - We have a back story for that. In YRF back stories always starts with a lot of happiness. Then add some more happiness to it and then some more. O yes don't forget the songs in between. Its time for a tragedy , remember in current time hero is not happy. After that tragedy hero gets a way for his redemption , to regain his happy life , there starts the hard work and movie gets a happy ending. So that's the basic formula which YRF has , and now mix it with sports , WRESTLING in this case and you know pretty much the whole story of the movie. But you know what storyline was not something which make this movie a good watch. Its the performances , direction and nicely choreographed fighting sequences (obviously in Bollywood standards and a whole lot better then BROTHERS). I sure cant criticize the movie a lot for being full of clichÃ©s , 1 or 2 unwanted songs , some long melodramatic scenes and predictable storyline because it has many good things too. But neither can i praise it all the way . Its a mix bag. One of the worst thing is its running time i.e., 2hr and 48mins. And the predictable story line makes it hard to watch it all the way. Because of this the good things in the movies separates each other with some not so good scenes in between them.
Salmaan was good as a Haryanvi wrestler. He was nice in fighting scenes too. But his fighting moves are very few in numbers , and he was repeating them. Its an irony that Randeep Hudda says to him that its important to learn the style of your opponent and not a single opponent tried to learn the style of SULTAN which was so common . I guess non of them have a coach as good as Randeep. Randeep was good too as a stereotype coach , which i wish to watch more but Bollywood movies spent very less time with training sessions , mostly just a single energetic song and here your big belly disappear and you got beautiful abs. Just in 5 mins. Amit Shad underplayed his character quite nicely. But Anushka Sharma holds the character in the whole movie. She was the support , love , heartbreaker as well as inspiration for Sultan. He made Sultan what he was. Also the reason for his uprising after his downfall. The movie looked good , but not as good as Kick or Bajrangi Bhaijaan . Camera movements are nice. Music was not much of an interruption but surely can have shortened the length if edited. 440 volt was totally unnecessary . Jag Ghumiya was special , after watching it i can imagine why ARIJIT SINGH requested so much to Salmaan for not replacing his voice. So Sultan is a nice movie. At least we can say Salmaan is on the right path since KICK(although Prem Ratan was a little mistake but it was forgivable). Its far below then Bajrangi Bhaijan , a little below then Kick which i personally found more entertaining. But definitely better then Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. 7/10 By ANuP APu KuMaR ..