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Antim Movie Review: Aayush Sharma delivers knockout performance in Salman Khan film

Antim the final truth review: aayush sharma's remarkable transformation stands out in the salman khan film. the film has been directed by mahesh manjrekar..

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Let’s start with a disclaimer. Bhaigiri takes a back seat in Salman Khan’s Antim. Yes, you heard it right. Except for the Bhai ka Birthday track, Antim, which is an adaptation of the Marathi film Mulshi Pattern, has very little to do with the trademark Salman jingoism, cryptic monologues, slow-mo fight scenes, and choreographed scenes with sunglasses and scarves. Antim revolves around an honest police officer Rajveer Singh (Salman Khan) and a farmer's son Rahuliya’s (Aayush Sharma) conflict. Mind you the conflict here isn’t the typical cop chasing the bad guy narrative and that’s what makes Antim interesting.

Directed by Mahesh Manjrekar, Antim has a lot going for it. The treatment of the film feels very different from any recent Salman Khan offering. Yes, there is that ever-looming cloud of needing to pander to his massive fan base, yet Manjrekar puts more belief and faith in his writers than Bhai’s bulging biceps. Something that directors haven’t managed to do in a very long time. It could be because Manjrekar has also made Marathi films in the past (Lalbaug Parel, Kaksparsh, Natsamrat) and has used the same formula to showcase the world of Rahuliya and his strife. The backbone of the film and the seed of its conflict lies in the idea of a poor farmer losing his land to forces beyond his control and reach - a reality that has been well documented in several places of Maharashtra. Despite the larger-than-life canvas and loud drums thumping in the garish background score, Manjrekar manages to create characters that are believable.

What stands out in Antim is the remarkable transformation of Aayush Sharma. The actor, who made a shaky debut with LoveYatri , has delivered a performance that stays with you even after the end credits roll out. That is a lot to say for anyone struggling to hold his own ground in a Salman Khan cinematic universe. Aayush’s Rahuliya has a stark resemblance to Sanjay Dutt’s Raghunath Shivalkar from Manjrekar’s very own Vaastav. They both evoke empathy, have an existential crisis as their sinister desires get bigger, and are in the pursuit of happiness. Aayush’s biggest win in Antim is to neither succumb to the pressures of taking on Salman’s larger-than-life screen appeal nor be a bystander and lurk in the superstar's massive shadow. In fact, Aayush manages to hold his own ground and impress in scenes where Rahuliya has to challenge Rajveer and make him look small. Not an easy task, but somehow the actor manages to pull it off with ease. Salman delivers what can be easily called one of his most subtle and underplayed performances in recent times. Rajveer is no Chulbul Pandey or Raadhey (small mercies!) and that in itself is a step in the right direction for the actor.

Antim’s biggest drawback is its flawed narrative and inability in being consistent in making its characters feel real. The second half could have easily been trimmed and made shorter, songs don’t find an appeal (especially Varun Dhawan’s sketchy cameo in the Ganesha song) and the background score and sound mixing plays havoc on your eardrums. There are too many slaps and punches that after a while feel almost robotic and banal attempts to fill in gaping holes in a weak subplot. Salman’s Rajveer is made to look like he’s unpredictable, doesn’t take sides and is mostly a bystander to events unfolding in front of him, yet 20 minutes into the second half he starts going against his own principles and belief and seems to lose track of what he established so effortlessly in the first half of the film. A character that’s flawed because the makers didn’t know what to do with him.

Antim is a small step in the right direction for Salman Khan and a big step for Aayush Sharma whose path of self-discovery as an actor seems to have begun with this film. Overall Antim has enough ammunition to deliver what it set out to promise - an action blockbuster with a massive emotional connect.

3 out of 5 stars for Antim.

ALSO READ| Aayush Sharma ran more than 33 km on Pune streets for Antim climax scene

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Antim: The Final Truth is so done to death that even criticising it feels like an exercise in monotony.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 12, 2022

If you are willing to tolerate this film's obvious need to be woke and loud, you may even enjoy the good vs evil drama.

Full Review | Dec 6, 2021

In the hands of Mahesh Manjrekar and producer Salman Khan, Antim is a gigantic purposeless mess, and one has no idea behind any character's intentions.

There is barely enough bandwidth for one narrative, let alone the mentor who insists on sterilizing the narrative for his fanbase. The turban does look good on Khan, though...

The whole enterprise can be summarized in six words: characters bleat, bullets dance, bodies fall.

A diluted remake of a Marathi hit...

Antim is a violent, testosterone-filled crime drama where men shoot first and don't even think later.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2021

Antim: The Final Truth is less of a film that wants to tell a story and more a business proposal to hoist Aayush Sharma as an action hero.

Everything else, in this Pune-based actioner chock full of Marathi inflections and accents, is a filler.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2021

Watch it to enjoy Aayush and Salman both in new avatars.

With intense action and drama (a tad too much), it checks some of the boxes for mass entertainment. It also highlights land grabbing by mafia dons, who successfully manage to bend the law, as they're are often hand-in-glove with the politicians.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2021

Antim isn't Satya or Vaastav but will surely make you remember all those late '90s gangster films. Mahesh Manjrekar shows he hasn't lost the knack of making a massy film.

People will continue to invoke the three dreaded terms -- "masala", "massy," "paisa vasool" -- to justify a mediocre and vapid outing solely engineered to relaunch an actor who can't even act.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 30, 2021

Salman Khan's stardom torpedoes a solid story.

Full Review | Nov 27, 2021

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'Antim: The Final Truth' Review: More than just another Salman Khan film

Bollywood superstar and his protegee aayush sharma power this action drama.

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A sauve superhero who pulls no punches and can fend off villains and dodge bullets with equal ease.

Goons, who while away their time in dingy rooms, playing caroms and slugging alcohol straight from the bottle. A ‘villain’ with kohl lined eyes and a bronzed buff body that could be the envy of any gym bunny yearning for a 6-pack.

Bullets that go off helter-skelter with no dearth of ‘extras’ to be bumped off the big screen. Antim: The Final Truth follows the textbook formulaic path as far as action scenes and even the plot line goes for a typical Salman Khan movie.

Shots of the superstar making his heroic entry, with a roaring background score to accentuate his big ticket presence and droll dialogues belted out in trademark fashion are by now de rigueur for any Salman Khan movie.

Yet, this remake of the 2018 Marati movie, Mulshi Pattern , helmed by Mahesh Manjrekar, has a lot more going for it that elevates it from being just another superficial mass entertainer that ‘Bhai’ is known to bankroll.

For starters Manjrekar has a tight grip on the script that confronts socio-political issues like land grabbing and the plight of farmers forced to work as indentured labourers in their own land amidst the rise of the multinationals and power-hungry politicians. Heavy-duty actors including Sachin Khedekar and Upendra Limaye add to the overall scale of the movie.

But the one who stands tall is the central figure of Rahuliya, the embittered son of a farmer Dutta Pehlwan (Khedekar), who refuses to play victim and takes the gun to avenge his family’s humility and rise up the ranks to be the local don of the region.

One-film old Aayush Sharma totally owns the role with his dark intensity shining through and his emotive visage reflecting the unabashed joy of power as well as the pangs of being separated from those he loves the most.

Debutant Mahima Makwana, who plays his love interest Manda, also stands out with a succinct performance as the lone woman in a sea of unruly men, without succumbing to melodrama.

The action scenes are choreographed well and Manjrekar, who plays the role of Manda’s drunk father, gets to mouth some whistle-worthy dialogues.

In the midst of all this towers Salman Khan, as upright Inspector Rajveer, a one-man police force, with his sleek flat front trousers and muscular body that can withstand any bullet or any pummeling. He plays the Sikh cop with unusual restraint and generously offers up the screen for his protégée Aayush to shine through.

Antim is a well-made film with a generous dose of superbly shot action sequences offset by some zany dialogues that will make you smile in the midst of all the doom and gloom. Its strength lies in the fact it is a typical Salman Khan film that ends up being more than just another Salman Khan movie as well.

Antim: The Final Truth

Director: Mahesh Manjrekar

Cast: Salman Khan, Aayush Sharma, Sanjay Manjrejkar, Sachin Khedekar, Mahima Makwana

Rating: 3 out of 5

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Antim The Final Truth movie review: Bhai is back with Dabangg 4

Antim the final truth movie review: aayush sharma looks as if he could get into a character, once he stops playing a type. he may notionally be the lead, and he manages to snaffle a bare-chested scene or two, but make no mistake, the biggest lines are all salman khan’s..

Antim The Final Truth movie cast: Salman Khan, Aayush Sharma, Mahima Makwana, Jisshu Sengupta, Sachin Khedekar, Upendra Limaye, Nikitin Dheer, Mahesh Majrekar Antim The Final Truth movie director: Mahesh Manjrekar Antim The Final Truth movie rating : One and a half stars

First report after watching ‘Antim: The Final Truth’? My ear drums have shattered. Even going by the usual loudness of background music, this one sends it through the roof. Can you sit through a masala movie without having to say that no ears were harmed during the watching of the film? Next time, remind me to pick up ear-plugs.

Meanwhile, here we are, watching a film pay lip service, for the millionth time, to the plight of poor farmers, land-grabbers, greedy netas, and other evil people. The film, based on the Marathi movie ‘Mulshi Pattern’, uses that superstructure to give Aayush Sharma a chance to change his lover-boy image, cemented in the 2018 ‘Loveyatri’, and to give Salman Khan ’s fans, pining for their dabangg idol, a chance to re-unite with him.

Those twin objects are fulfilled with a great deal of zeal and enthusiasm, because from the start, not a moment goes by without the school dropout Rahul/Rahulya (Aayush Sharma) glaring and flaring up at those who have grabbed his arrow-straight father’s (Sachin Khedekar) ‘zameen’. The moments that are left over are filled up by clean-and-mean police officer Sardar Rajveer Singh (Salman Khan), all togged out in a turban, having replaced his beloved azure bracelet with a ‘kadaa’, and doing what he does best– baring his ‘faulaadi’ chest, slinging out one-liners, and pulverizing the baddies.

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Everything else, in this Pune -based actioner chock full of Marathi inflections and accents, is a filler. Sachin Khedekar as the long-suffering father who’d rather die than do anything dishonest; Upendra Limaye as the dodgy guy who takes Rahulya under his wing; Jisshu Sengupta as a local hood. Even Rahulya’s love-interest (Mahima Makwana), who plays a girl dispensing cutting chai, is a perfunctory presence: she gets a dance, a roll in the hay, and a couple of speaking scenes.

Sharma looks as if he could get into a character, once he stops playing a type. He may notionally be the lead, and he manages to snaffle a bare-chested scene or two, but make no mistake, the biggest lines are all Salman’s. Tu hoga Pune ka Bhai, says the latter to the former, par main Hindustan ka Bhai hoon.

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Antim: The Final Truth review

Antim: The Final Truth is so done to death that even criticising it feels like an exercise in monotony, feels Sukanya Verma.

Another Friday.

Another iteration of crime does not pay.

Antim: The Final Truth is so done to death that even criticising it feels like an exercise in monotony.

But since the title is so resolute about the truth, let me not hold back.

Mahesh Manjerekar's wannabe Vaastav posturing as a remake of Marathi flick, Mulshi Pattern is the kind of hackneyed shlock where you can predict exactly what is transpiring on screen while your face remains buried in a phone.

Some movies are designed to pay no attention and Salman Khan's latest screams trash.

For those of us still recovering from that monstrosity called Radhe , Bhai's strutting stud pose and ultra-tight khaki uniform in Antim shows no signs of remorse.

This time, he adds Sardar and kisan to his pedigree, throwing in a line or two about the greatness of the community ( Jis din yeh Sardar ki hategi sabki phategi ), being a farmer's son et al while mouthing the daftest lines, ' Is duniya main kuch nahi tikta sivay plastic ke .'

What's on paper is a plain cop playing sly games to finish off gangs and corrupt neta s.

What emerges on screen is a superman showing off his clean shaven chest and fruits of working out at every single opportunity.

Give me his humble Sardar act in Heroes over this swaggering peacock any day.

It may not feel like one but Salman and his mercurial Punju accent are a mere supporting presence in Antim .

He is also the producer. And the sole purpose of this crummy product is to make us reconsider brother-in-law Aayush Sharma 's talents.

It's been three years since his debut Loveyatri , but his solitary expression hasn't budged an inch.

Tanned up, beefed-up, he plays Rahul, a poor guy raised on protein shakes throwing fits of rage over his farmer father's (Sachin Khedekar) exploitation by the rich, political and felonious.

And in true Bollywood logic, he overpowers them by becoming one of them.

Except Rahul's righteous daddy disapproves of his son's misdemeanour.

No matter how much he enlarges those eyes, they don't have the poor little bad boy vulnerability of Sanjay Dutt.

Sharma's Rahul is an unlikeable, reckless hothead.

Both his romance and rebellion stem from irrational rage and an unfair privilege the script paints him with.

Although Sharma looks rather believable, enjoying it.

There's a moment in this Pune-based masala when a crime scene becomes a setting for a battle of brawn between Salman and Sharma. And it gets intense to the point of comical.

Antim: The Final Truth is far from funny though.

Every frame of this junk is teeming with greasy, bulky men in big gold chains or Maharashtrian clichés like the obligatory lavani item number and Ganesh Chaturthi celebration.

Women are either sorry figures in tears or objects of desire arriving at their third trimester at the blink of an eye while the booming background music's single-minded goal is to damage your eardrums.

There's Jisshu Sengupta reduced to a commonplace henchman peeing in his pants. From romantic interest in women-oriented vehicles to just another goonda , what a comedown.

After surviving 142 minutes of mind-numbing lawlessness and zero consequences around people pointing guns and darting bullets in an all-you-can-kill buffet, I wish I could truly say this was the Antim not nth time.

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Antim: The Final Truth FIRST REVIEW Out; Salman Khan's Fans Need To Read It Right Away

Mahesh Manjrekar's Antim: The Final Truth is all set to hit the theatres tomorrow i.e., November 26, 2021, and we are here with its first review. Antim marks the first collaboration of Salman Khan and his actor- brother-in-law Aayush Sharma hence, audience are quite curious to watch what the duo has to offer in the film.

A netizen named Akshay Gupte caught the screening of Antim in Brisbane and wrote, "Just finished watching #Antim here in Brisbane Australia, the movie is a sure shot blockbuster 4.5 stars out of 5, Mahesh Manjerkar does full justice to Mulshi pattern and makes a remarkable film. Auysh Sharma delivers a powerful performance, @BeingSalmanKhan is magnificent🧨👏."

He further wrote, "Watched #Antim at Event Cinemas Chermside Brisbane, film industry now has a great actor in the form of Auysh Sharma, Mahesh Bhau mastach direction, story ani Screenplay! Maja ali...jabardast!!!"

Another film critic Rahul Verma tweeted, "Reports coming in from Dubai that #SalmanKhan 's role in the film is one of the most powerful in his career . Its of 52-53mins with full of intense and swag! #Antim."

Meanwhile, the advance booking of Antim has begun and the buzz of the movie is tremendous. Reports suggest that if reviews work in favour of Antim then, it might become the highest grosser of 2021.

Antim , which also marks the Bollywood debut of Mahima Makwana, is a remake of the 2018 hit Marathi crime drama Mulshi Pattern.

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Antim Review: Aayush Sharma Makes A Strong Impression. Yet, It Is Salman Khan All The Way

Antim review: sachin khedekar does have his moments but chhaya kadam is a mere passenger. jisshu sengupta, nikitin dheer and sayaji shinde are stranded in a screenplay that has little space for them beyond fleeting appearances..

Antim : Salman Khan-Aayush Sharma in the film. (Image courtesy: beingsalmankhan )

Cast: Salman Khan, Aayush Sharma, Rohit Haldikar, Upendra Limaye, Chhaya Kadam, Nikitin Dheer, Jisshu Sengupta and Sayaji Shinde

Director: Mahesh Manjrekar

Rating:  2.5 stars (out of 5)

Do not let the tagline mislead you. Antim: The Final Truth , a gangster drama directed by Mahesh Manjrekar, isn't looking for either the truth or any sort of finality. If there is anything at all that it proves, it is this: even in a film in which Salman Khan deigns to share the limelight with another actor, it is he who inevitably hogs it all. For once, it works to the advantage of the film. Although the socio-economic realities of rural Maharashtra inflect Antim to a great extent, the film is cast squarely in the mould of a conventional crime saga in which a less-sinned-against-than-sinning lawbreaker is lionised only to be thrown into a losing battle against a tough policeman determined to wipe out crime and criminals.

The amalgam of multiple concerns - the plight of farmers, the greed of industrialists, the futility of crime and the policing of urban areas - is undeniably significant. It contributes to separating the film just a touch from run-of-the-mill cops-and-gangsters flicks. However, the approach that Antim takes is not only riddled with cliches, it is also, in the ultimate analysis, abjectly anodyne.

The line between the meaningful and the massy is indeed precariously thin in Antim . The film barely touches upon the former and leans too heavily towards the latter. That is a departure from Mulshi Pattern , the 2018 Marathi film from which it is loosely adapted.

The balancing act that the rejig attempts takes some doing especially because the overpowering presence of a superstar who is also the film's producer has to be factored into the script without altering the spirit of the story. The effort casts a shadow on the final product.

To Salman Khan's credit, he takes care not to overdo the invincible, intrepid crime-buster persona that is his stock in trade. He brings a surprising degree of restraint to bear upon the character of Rajveer Singh, a no-nonsense police officer who comes off a two-year suspension to take charge of law enforcement in a crime-infested area of Pune.

There is no dearth of melodrama in Antim nor is there a paucity of action sequences or dialogue-heavy confrontations between the man in uniform and the Pune mafia kingpins who force farmers off their land and rob them of their dignity. Especially in passages of the latter kind, Salman is in his elements. He preens and poses but delivers his lines with restraint.

Certain parts of the screenplay by Manjrekar, Abhijeet Deshpande and Siddharth Salvi touch upon relevant themes. Other portions gloss over the ticklish issues at the heart of the tale with the aim of softening the film's core for the benefit of the Salman Khan fan base.

A Sikh policeman's arrival in Pune coincides with the migration of a farmer's family displaced from the village of Mulshi. The patriarch, Datta Patil (Sachin Khedekar), once a champion wrestler, has been reduced to serving as a security guard at the bungalow that a builder has constructed on a plot land that the former was forced to sell for a pittance.

The one-time wrestler's hot-headed son Rahul (Aayush Sharma in his sophomore outing) clashes with the obnoxious real-estate tycoon before his father leaves the village with his family to work as a porter in the Pune market yard. The boy, impatient and always spoiling for a fight, vents his anger on a bunch of goons in the uprooted farmer's workplace.

In the process, Rahul and his childhood pal Ganya (Rohit Haldikar) earn the ire of one gang led by a corporator and the benign attention of another run by a politically powerful local don Nanya Bhai (Upendra Limaye, who was also in the original film in the role that Salman essays in Antim ).

A turning point in the first half catapults Rahul to the top of the underworld heap, triggering fierce gang rivalries that Rajveer exploits to stage encounters and eliminate undesirable elements. The plot springs no major surprises but for the fact that it continually stresses the truism that crime does not pay.

The young gangster played by Sharma struts around as his stocks rise rapidly, but he is repeatedly reminded by the policeman that his days are numbered. Rahul is disowned by his own family, including his mother (Chhaya Kadam). The girl he falls in love with, Manda (Mahima Makwana in her Hindi big-screen debut), a tea-seller in the market yard, also gives the guy a run for his money.

Antim: The Final Truth is the kind of film in which there is no tomorrow in more senses than one. The protagonist does not have a future and that is asserted time and again. The film itself plays out in a manner that suggests it is desperate to pack in as much as it can without losing the advantage of Salman Khan's star power.

Antim occasionally slips into meta territory. Aayush's character declares ahead of a duel: "Main Pune ka naya Bhai hoon ." Salman's Rajveer Singh retorts: Tu Pune ka naya Bhai hain, main toh pehle se hi Hindustan ka Bhai hoon." The line between the star and the character vanishes. This isn't the only time that the erasure happens in the 142-minute Antim .

With the spotlight trained understandably on Salman and Aayush, several of the characters, including the one that Mahesh Manjrekar himself plays - the alcoholic, perpetually slurring father of the girl Rahul wants to marry - get very limited play in an overcrowded script.

Sachin Khedekar does have his moments but Chhaya Kadam, an actress of proven substance, is a mere passenger. That apart, Jisshu Sengupta, Nikitin Dheer and Sayaji Shinde are stranded in a screenplay that has little space for them beyond fleeting appearances.

Aayush Sharma, who made his debut in 2018 in another Salman Khan production (Loveyatri) without creating so much as a ripple, makes a strong impression in Antim. The actor, playing a don in Kolhapuri chappals, does more than his bit as the conflicted, lonely, ambitious crime lord yearning for both domination and acceptance. What that means is that all the heavy lifting isn't left to Salman Khan. Yet, Antim is Salman Khan all the way.

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The extent to which Antim works will hinge principally on how his fans relate to his somewhat subdued performance. There are, for sure, several action sequences in which the star hits his straps. Among them are an entry scene in which Salman beats a rapist and his henchmen to pulp and a pre-intermission fight sequence that has him and Aayush Sharma, both shirtless, locked in a duel.

These strategically spaced scenes pack a punch. Yet, the film, on the whole, is anything but a knockout show.

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‘Antim’ movie review: Crime and punishment

The songs are pedestrian, the action is average and the idea of police putting two rival gangs against each other has been used so many times by ram gopal varma that it has lost its novelty.

Updated - November 30, 2021 08:36 pm IST

Published - November 28, 2021 02:02 pm IST

A still from ‘Antim’.

This week, the good old Mahesh Manjrekar joins the likes of Rahul Rawail and Satish Kaushik — competent filmmakers who are roped in to launch/resurrect family products by Bollywood bigwigs on a tried and trusted track. When in form, Manjrekar has the ability to engage the audience with old-school melodrama. In Pravin Tarde’s Marathi hit, Mulshi Pattern, here, he has potent material to work upon, but the presence of a star almost overshadows his expression.

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With farmers’ protests trending in mind space, the film’s underlying theme of the social cost of development is easy to relate to. Here is a farmer (Sachin Khedekar) who is forced to sell his land. He spends most of his money on family obligations and is reduced to a security staff guarding what was once his own fields. He is humiliated for plucking vegetables from the land he once tilled.

His son Rahul (Aayush Sharma) fails to process this change where human dignity and social status are usually not calculated while arriving at the price of agricultural land. When the family migrates to Pune, Rahul gets into a Deewar’s dock scene kind of situation where the angry young man makes somebody else’s fight his own.

It spirals into a series of events and Rahul gets sucked into a vortex of crime and politics, alienating him from his conscientious father. Like the Vijay of yore, Rahul is chased not only by law and rival gangsters, his conscience also tries to catch up with him.

Unlike many recent Bollywood films, Manjrekar doesn’t normalise depravity. He keeps it an equal opportunity game, for characters on either side of the moral divide. Rahul’s school teacher spits on him when he tries to grab his land. The drunkard father (Manjrekar himself in a lovable cameo) of Manda, the girl (Mahima Makwana makes a confident debut) Rahul loves, says, when he buys medicine for headache after checking the expiry date, how could he invest in a guy whose shelf life is so short. The honest policeman’s hands are tied by corrupt political bosses but he could still show a gangster or a self-seeking lawyer his place. Such scenes remind of the Salim Javed era of mainstream cinema where the anti-hero was constantly shown the mirror.

Manjrekar also draws from his biggest hit, Vaastav, as one could see shades of Raghu in Rahul. Aayush’s body language and dialogue delivery remind of Sanjay Dutt’s portrayal of the boy who gets caught in the quagmire of crime, and gradually struggles to choose between right and wrong.

Like Sanjay, Aayush perpetually carries furrows on the forehead. Somebody could have told him that creases should develop or recede on their own as per the intensity of the scene.

Having said that, in his second film, Aayush is not bad at all. He can hold his own in front of seasoned performers like Khedekar and Upendra Limye, has a deep timbre and the camera seems to like him.

However, Manjrekar has to justify producer and brother-in-law Salman Khan’s presence as well, ostensibly to guarantee a good opening. So the role of police officer Rajveer Singh, who takes on Rahul, swells beyond proportion and muffles the voice of the film.

In fact, it is Salman who falls short of expectations. With no back story, he, inexplicably, chooses to play Rajveer in a safe, restrained fashion. Had he brought a little more colour to the air-brushed Sikh character, his battle with Rahul would have been much more fun. Perhaps, he wanted the focus to be on Aayush, but his stiff presence neither helps the cause of the film nor of his fans.

Moreover, every time Rajveer enters the scene, the background score shoots up by a few decibels. The theme song suggests that the Bhai is some sort of replacement of God, during a crisis. If Salman wanted to play a character, why did he carry his off screen baggage?

The songs are pedestrian, action average and the idea of police putting two rival gangs against each other has been used so many times by Ram Gopal Varma that it has lost its novelty. The saving grace is that even when the narrative sags, it doesn’t lose its moral fibre.

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The trouble is that the film, already shouldering the burden of Salman, soon dissipates into a head-swirling saga of guns and goons. The human cost of development, which was the key idea in Mulshi Pattern, is drowned out. At 142 minutes, Antim: The Final Truth also becomes a test of patience. I will say that this film is miles ahead of Salmans last few ventures like Radhe and Dabangg 3. But thats a pretty low bar.

Ratings: — Review By: Komal Nahta Site:Filminformation

On the whole, Antim has entertainment value but it lacks novelty and super-hit music. Also, it will not satisfy Salman Khan fans to the fullest because the subdued police officer he plays is often shown to be helpless due to the system and politics. As such, the film will end up doing average business at the box-office. Of course, collections are bound to pick up.

Ratings: 2.5/5 Review By: Saibal Site:NDTV

Antim: The Final Truth is the kind of film in which there is no tomorrow in more senses than one. The protagonist does not have a future and that is asserted time and again. The film itself plays out in a manner that suggests it is desperate to pack in as much as it can without losing the advantage of Salman Khan’s star power.

Ratings: 2.5/5 Review By: Umesh Site:Koimoi

All said and done, I wont be comfortable suggesting this to anyone in a world where Mulshi Pattern exists. Even as a standalone project, this would stand alone instead of running & roaring as its Marathi counterpart.Two and a half stars!

Ratings: 3/5 Review By: Ronak Site:Times Of India

With intense action and drama (a tad too much), Antim: The Final Truth checks some of the boxes for mass entertainment. It also highlights the issue of land grabbing by mafia dons, who successfully manage to bend the law, as theyre are often hand-in-glove with the politicians. So, if you fancy over-the-top old-school Bollywood films that have an excess of just about everything then Antim: The Final Truth may just be your kinda film.

Ratings: 3/5 Review By: Tushar Site:India Today

Antim is a small step in the right direction for Salman Khan and a big step for Aayush Sharma whose path of self-discovery as an actor seems to have begun with this film. Overall Antim has enough ammunition to deliver what it set out to promise – an action blockbuster with a massive emotional connect.

Ratings: — Review By: News18 Site:News18

It is only fair to say that Aayush Sharma yet again owes his career to Salman Khan. An official remake of Marathi movie Mulshi Pattern, the story set in Pune, has every aspect of a typical Salman Khan movie. From slow motion fights, to slow motion entries, and subtle yet powerful punch lines, Salman Khan carries this movie on his shoulder. Aayush Sharma also impresses in a few action sequences, but lacks the much-needed swag that is required to play the character.With a roaring background score, slow-motion action sequences and a lot of slow motion entries of Salman Khan, Antim is purely made for Salmans fans. Overall, though the script is strong, somewhere the casting could have been better along side Salman Khan.

Ratings: 2.5/5 Review By: Manjusha Site:Gulf News

All emotions and violence in this film are exaggerated and heightened, but this is not an unbearable movie. If you are willing to tolerate this films obvious need to be woke and loud, you may even enjoy the good vs evil drama.

Ratings: 3/5 Review By: Ambica Site:Khaleej Times

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Rahulya is a penniless village boy with a dream of being Pune’s biggest don. His closest friend Ganya is beside him through it all, while his parents shun their violent son. Policeman Rajveer Singh watches this unassuming boy rise up the ranks & is frustrated as Rahulya manages to use his connections to slip out of police custody time and again. With Rajveer at his heels, Rahulya still manages to easily reach the top, but soon loses sight of why he ever wanted to ascend the ranks. As the power goes to his head, he ruins relations with his family and ladylove. His only solace is Ganya and Sidhu, an orphan boy he adopts. Will Rajveer manage to bring down Rahulya, or will his own past catch up with him first?

Antim: The Final Truth Release Date:

Nov 26, 2021 ( India) straight to Theater

Antim: The Final Truth Movie Cast:

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Director:  Mahesh Manjrekar

Producer:  Salman Khan  

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ANTIM - THE FINAL TRUTH is the story of the rivalry between a cop and a gangster. ANTIM - THE FINAL TRUTH is the official remake of the 2018 Marathi film MULSHI PATTERN [written and directed by Pravin Tarde]. Pravin Tarde's story touches upon some important issues like land mafia, ...  migration of rural population and their exploitation in urban areas, etc. Mahesh V Manjrekar, Abhijeet Deshpande and Siddarth Salvi's screenplay is decent in the first half but is unexciting in the second half. Mahesh V Manjrekar, Abhijeet Deshpande and Siddarth Salvi's dialogues are sharp and commercial, without going over the top. Mahesh V Manjrekar's direction is fine. Salman Khan is not in top form but he manages to create impact in a few scenes. Aayush Sharma has improved a lot from his debut film, LOVEYATRI [2018]. Mahima Makwana makes a confident debut and is memorable in the scene where she blasts Aayush. Sachin Khedekar is dependable. Upendra Limaye leaves a huge mark in a small role. Uday Tikekar is decent while Vijay Nikam is good in the cameo. Mahesh Manjrekar plays a role similar to the one he played in DABANGG [2010]. Hitesh Modak's music is forgettable. Ravi Basrur's background score has the massy vibe. Karan B Rawat's cinematography is passable. Vikram Dahiya's action is not gory and works well. Prashant R Rane's production design is realistic. Ashley Rebello and Alvira Khan Agnihotri's costumes are real and yet appealing. Bunty Nagi's editing is neat. On the whole, ANTIM - THE FINAL TRUTH has an entertaining first half and the face-off between Salman Khan and Aayush Sharma keeps the interest going. But the unexciting second half diminishes the overall impact.

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When Pixar’s Inside Out released in theaters, my kids were 8 and 5-years-old. It was a delightful movie about the rather limited—but intense—emotional landscape children (and their parents) have to navigate.

My kids are now 17 and 14 and that landscape has seen some massive changes, especially since so much has changed between 2015 and 2024. The intervening years have seen major political change, a global pandemic, big family changes at home, and of course the transformation of my beautiful little kids into, well, teenagers.

It’s pretty fitting that Pixar should come out with Inside Out 2 nine years later, and the movie hits all the right beats. As fun as it is for kids, this is a movie that will delight parents more. When Riley wakes up one morning to her first full-blown puberty-induced hormonal rage, snapping at her mom and barging out the door, we are given a glimpse of the mother’s emotions. “Well that’s a preview of the next ten years,” one emotion says to another.

I laughed out loud.

I also cried quite a bit during this movie. Then again, I’m a cryer. It doesn’t take much. Still, this is easily the best Pixar movie I’ve seen in many, many years and in some ways I think it outshines the original, if only because it tackles the far more complex emotions teenagers (and their parents) grapple with and does it so well, with verve, humor and plenty of poignant moments.

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Of course, it distills “the next ten years” into just one weekend at hockey camp. The loss of a sense of self that Riley experiences, as Joy and Sadness and Disgust and Fear are replaced with Anxiety and Embarrassment and Envy and Ennui (and occasionally Nostalgia) is profound, but it’s all confined to an hour-and-a-half movie. As a parent, I know how this really plays out: Over years of angst and rebellion and lots of scary moments. Teens have to come to terms with their own changes, but parents have to also learn to change and to let go and to venture forth into uncharted territory that can be both incredibly terrifying and humbling.

Inside Out 2 does a great job at zooming into this years-long journey of self-discovery into just one difficult weekend, where friendships are tested and the awkwardness of growing up—making that leap from Middle School to High School, experiencing puberty for the first time, etc.—is on full display. It’s fitting that Anxiety plays the role as chief antagonist (but not villain) because I felt anxious the whole time, watching as Riley makes such poor choices for such relatable reasons. We are reminded how Anxiety and Embarrassment and Envy can make us act without thinking, or without regard for others, not out of cruelty but out of self-preservation.

In any case, it’s a beautifully crafted film that’s equal parts hilarious and moving. Pixar is at the top of its storytelling and animation game, and I can’t recommend this highly enough. Go see it on the biggest screen you can find.

I saw it with my 14-year-old. Now I just need to convince my 17-year-old to go with me. Teenagers. Oy vey.

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The opening image of this movie, out of focus, seems to be of the sun, or a sun, appearing to undulate within the frame. The directorial debut of French-Senegalese filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy , this is one of those pictures to which the phrase “every frame a painting” might apply. Light itself seems to be a character in the film. But despite the beauty that light often imparts to the frame, whether crystal clear or diffused by swirling sand, it’s not an entirely benevolent character.

The movie takes place in a rural Senegal village where the light is unremitting and merciless. Everyone in the movie is waiting for rain that doesn’t come, and the light punishes the livestock. Drought comes, and in its wake, famine. It’s hard just to live.

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LOS ANGELES, June 17 (UPI) -- The Bikeriders , in theaters Friday, is a lovingly crafted homage to outlaw culture in the '60s. However, it is not blinded by the legend and presents the devastatingly dangerous side of it, too.

In the film, a photojournalist interviews Kathy (Jodie Comer), the wife of Vandals Chicago motorcycle gang member Benny (Austin Butler) in the '60s. Kathy describes the Vandals' lifestyle under President Johnny (Tom Hardy). Advertisement

Early scenes use the camera, editing and music to capture the energy of motorcycle culture. It's infectious enough to overcome even the greatest disinterest in two-wheeled vehicles.

The Vandals quickly expand from Chicago to chapters around the country. But establishing a system of organizational rules amounts to fighting to settle disputes.

Other motorcycle clubs pick fights with the Vandals, so brawls erupt everywhere they go. The Vandals take extreme retribution on anyone who harms them. It's not an eye for an eye, so the price for harming a Vandal is exponentially higher. Advertisement

The culture is seen through Kathy's eyes. She's the articulate one who can answer the journalist's questions, but as soon as Benny's not around, this world is dangerous for Kathy.

Johnny realizes some truths, though he can't verbalize them. But he notices that no matter how hard he tries to live by a code, he can't convince the younger generation to adopt it.

What is beyond any of these men, but not beyond writer-director Jeff Nichols, is that whatever code they think they live by breeds violence. Their best friends commit violence against each other, but excluding a violent person can be even more dangerous because their resentment triggers even more violence.

By the '70s, the next generation was attracted to the most dangerous parts of motorcycle clubs. Johnny started the Vandals so people could ride in packs, but by the '70s, people saw it as an excuse to break the law in a hotbed of mutual abuse.

The Bikeriders is full of real vehicular stunts. Bike races and driving between cars are the most showy, but any time an actor sits on a moving vehicle, it's a stunt.

The Bikeriders take viewers into this volatile world from a safe distance. It shows how the threat of violence ultimately outweighs any appeal of freedom and community such gangs purport to offer. Advertisement

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'The Bikeriders' is more about the violent ride and memorable characters than a destination

"The Bikeriders," Jeff Nichols' latest film, is based on a 1968 photo book by Danny Lyon in which the photographer chronicles the lives of a motorcycle club as they cruise through the Midwest.

With a photo book you're free to drop in and out, to browse at your leisure. There's a narrative there, but it's loose.

Movies are more of a start-to-finish proposition (though I suppose streaming offers some of the same flexibility). "The Bikeriders" — the film version, a star-studded affair with Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy — is more compelling (and it's plenty compelling) when thought of like the book. Individual scenes and characters draw you in and make you want to spend time in the world Nichols has painstakingly created. That makes it absolutely worth the price of admission. But the overall journey, about the rise and not-quite fall of a motorcycle club, is less interesting.

What club is 'The Bikeriders' about?

Mike Faist plays Danny, who, when we meet him, is basically embedded with the Vandals, a motorcycle club led by Johnny (Hardy), a married truck driver who was inspired when he saw Marlin Brando in "The Wild One." It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to show a scene from a classic, and what a scene it is: when Brando's Johnny is asked what he's rebelling against, he says, "Whaddya got?" Teen revolt in a single sentence.

At first, Johnny isn't really rebelling against anything. He just wants to hang out and ride with his friends. Sure, they drink and fight, though in such a matter-of-fact way that if you asked them why they'd probably say, "Who doesn't?"

One day, a friend drags Kathy (Jodie Comer) into a bar where the Vandals hang out. She's appalled until she spots Benny (Butler). The next thing you know she's on the back of his motorcycle, roaring away. The next thing you know after that, they're married. His devotion to his marriage and to his club provides a lot of the tension in the film. If Johnny thought that as leader of a motorcycle club he could strong-arm Benny's devotion, he finds out Kathy is as tough as any leather-clad biker on the road.

The film is told through flashbacks of Danny interviewing Kathy. Comer, an Emmy winner for "Killing Eve" and a Tony winner for "Prima Facie," is typically excellent as a woman who is at times bemused by her husband and his friends, sometimes frustrated, and occasionally endangered. She remains attracted to Benny throughout, sometimes to her own consternation.

Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy go all in on accents

And now, a word about the accents. Comer and Hardy are brilliant, committed actors. They're also British. "The Bikeriders" takes place outside of Chicago. To say they go all in on Midwestern accents is to understate the case considerably. They would be at home in one of the old "Da Bears" skits on "Saturday Night Live."

The club is littered with intriguing characters. The great Michael Shannon, a Nichols regular (he's so great in " Midnight Special " and "Take Shelter"), plays Zipco, whose rejection from the Army has left him disillusioned and mostly drunk. Cockroach (Emory Cohen) loves the club, probably too much. Norman Reedus' Funny Sunny shows up from California with the most disgusting set of teeth I think I've ever seen and a mission. My favorite performance of the bunch might be by Boyd Holbrook as the club's mechanic, who always seems like he's in on some kind of joke.

The club grows in popularity. Soon other cities and towns start their own chapters. It's not welcome competition, though one big fight scene is particularly entertaining. Violence is a way of life for these men, the way they solve problems. Kathy worries about Benny. He's an aimless sort, a rather blank kind of fellow. He just wants to ride. She wants to grow up and have a life, a life with Benny. But his life is roaring down the highway in Vandals colors.

The thing is, we don't care so much about the growth of the club. The performances, Comer as Kathy in particular, are what grab us. It's sort of like gathering a group of the world's best performers and having them act out an old biker movie.

The whole isn't quite as interesting as the sum of its parts, is another way to put it. The parts, though, are quite good on their own.

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Director: Jeff Nichols.

Cast: Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy.

Rating: R for language throughout, violence, some drug use and brief sexuality.

How to watch: In theaters Friday, June 21.

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