Antim: The Final Truth | |
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Directed by | Mahesh Manjrekar |
Screenplay by | Mahesh Manjrekar Abhijeet Deshpande Siddharth Salvi |
Based on | Mulshi Pattern by Pravin Tarde |
Produced by | Salman Khan |
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Cinematography | Karan Rawat |
Edited by | Bunty Nagi |
Music by | Score: Ravi Basrur Songs: Ravi Basrur Hitesh Modak |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Zee Studios |
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Running time | 140 minutes[1][2][3] |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Box office | est. ₹51.58 crore[4] |
Antim: The Final Truth is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar and produced by Salman Khan Films.[5] Distributed by Zee Studios, it is an adaptation of the Marathi film Mulshi Pattern,[6] and stars Salman Khan, Aayush Sharma and Mahima Makwana.
The story revolves around the face-off between a police officer (Khan) and a gangster (Sharma), and like the original, it explores the hard conditions faced by farmers that pushes some of them towards crime.[7] The film was theatrically released worldwide on 26 November 2021.[8]
The movie opens with Rajveer narrating the story of a common farmer's life, where he is forced to sell his land and works as a farm laborer in his own land. One such story is of Rahulya's, son of a farmer. His father too had sold his land and is living as a watchman in his own land. One day, the landlord beats up Rahulya's father and a fed up Rahul challenges that he would get back his land. Soon, his family shifts to Pune, where both the father-son duo work as porters in a vegetable market. One day, as the local goons forcibly extort money from an old man, Rahulya beats them up and lands in jail. There, he meets Nanya, a powerful gangster with the local M.L.A's support. Rahulya joins hands with Nanya after coming out of jail. Meanwhile, he also falls in love with Manda, a tea seller.
Rahulya soon earns his name after accidentally murdering the Mayor and Nanya bails him out again, by fabricating the murder as suicide with false testimonials from the people present there. Rahulya, with his new fame, sets out to solve the vegetable vendors' problems by promising that he would buy their produce more than the current prices. Though he is appreciated by the vendors, his father dejects him. Soon, Rahulya is a prominent member in Nanya's gang. One day, Pitya and Daya complain to Nanya that they failed to annex land owned by Rahulya's teacher (masterji). Rahulya both settles his own personal score and annexes the land by shooting him in front of his family. Nanya again bails him out by producing masterji's uncle as the killer. By now, Rahulya is completely disowned by his family and is thrown out of his home. Though Manda is apprehensive of Rahul, she believes that he is innocent. One day, Nanya invites Rahulya to his birthday party. In a twist of tale, Rahulya murders him on the party night on the local MLA's word. S.I. Rajveer Singh, the policeman of the area, witnesses the murder and puts Rahulya behind bars after a physical brawl. After several months, he comes out on bail.
Rahulya is now the gangster of the town and everyone fear him. One night, a pre-teenager comes to meet Rahulya for help and Rahulya adopts him as his brother. Meanwhile, Rajveer Singh takes pity on Rahulya's family and constantly warns Rahulya of grave consequences on taking law in his hands but he turns a deaf ear. Rajveer now decides to leave the fate of the gangsters to themselves that only one would be left behind upon killing each others' gang. He further intensifies the inter gang rivalry by killing members of both the gang members without each others' knowing. Rahulya, though a rich man now, feels lonely. As he goes to the market place, his father despises him. Manda's father too shouts at Rahulya that he would never marry off his daughter to him. Enraged, Rahulya hits him. Manda then hits Rahulya and breaks up with him. Rahulya continues be a gangster and is even more dreaded now: he starts extortions, captures many peoples' lands. He turns his eyes on his father's land and gets his vengeance by killing his landlord who had captured his father's land earlier. An elated Rahulya shares the news to his father but he isn't happy as usual because of Rahulya's coercive methods. During one of the land settlements, he comes across a happy family where the father is proud of his sons' achievements. Rahulya now has a change of heart.
As he returns to the market place, he meets his father and asks him to come with him and that he would join politics. His father lashes out that he had many chances to mend his ways but he did not. As Rahulya is about to leave, Manda introduces her fiancee to him. The local MLA is informed of Rahulya joining politics and tips Pitya and Daya to murder Rahulya. On the Vinayaka Chavithi day, Singh encounter kills the MLA and the duo end up chasing Rahulya on Pune roads to murder him. Rahulya quickly phones the pre-teenager of the happenings and asks him to inform everyone. The pre-teen and Rahulya reach the market. Meanwhile, Rahulya's father phones Singh of the happenings and he comes to the market place. Rahulya now comes out of hiding and both of them confront the Daya-Pitya duo. As the duo are captured, Rahulya surrenders himself to the police. The pre-teen takes out his gun and shoots Rahulya, killing him. He reveals that he is the son of the masterji and promised to avenge his death by murdering Rahulya in the market place. Singh then encounters and kills the duo.
As Rahulya's dead body is about to be cremated, everybody weeps and his father frantically laughs as he is reminded of Rahulya's words to smile at least once. As Singh leaves, he thinks that Rahulya needed only 6 feet of land despite owning 300 acres.
The film's principal photography commenced with Aayush Sharma on 15 November 2020, and Salman Khan joined the sets in December 2020 and the second schedule in January 2021.[11] Filming was wrapped up in July 2021, but later Khan's some more scenes were added-on to the movie and Khan shot that scenes in the first week of October 2021.[12][13]
Antim: The Final Truth | |
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Soundtrack album by | |
Released | 24 November 2021[14] |
Recorded | 2021 |
Genre | Feature film soundtrack |
Length | 23:20 |
Language | Hindi |
Label | Zee Music Company |
Official audio | |
Antim: The Final Truth - Full Album on YouTube |
The music of film was composed by Ravi Basrur and Hitesh Modak while lyrics written by Vaibhav Joshi, Nitin Raikwar and Shabbir Ahmed.[14]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Koi Toh Aayega" | Shabbir Ahmed | Ravi Basrur | Santhosh Venky, Ravi Basrur, Mohan Krishna, Sachin Basrur, Puneeth Rudranag, Vyasaraj Sosale, Chethan Handattu, Krishna Basrur, Nagaprakash Kota, Vijay Basrur, Umesh Karkada, Krishnamurthy Basrur, Nanndhu J K.G.F, Ramakrishna Basrur | 3:28 |
2. | "Bhai Ka Birthday" | Nitin Raikwar | Hitesh Modak | Sajid Khan | 4:20 |
3. | "Hone Laga" | Shabbir Ahmed | Ravi Basrur | Jubin Nautiyal | 4:43 |
4. | "Vighnaharta" | Vaibhav Joshi | Hitesh Modak | Ajay Gogavale | 6:04 |
5. | "Chingari" | Vaibhav Joshi | Hitesh Modak | Sunidhi Chauhan | 4:45 |
Total length: | 23:20 |
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Times of India gave the film 3 out of 5 writing "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 they’re 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." Gulf News gave the film 2.5 out of 5 writing "Director Mahesh Manjrekar as a drunk former small-time criminal is passable, but Khedekar’s (Sharma’s principled father) grief seems more genuine. Actress Mahima Makwana is effective in her part of a fierce woman some of the twists will remind you of an ‘80s Bollywood melodrama. 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 film’s obvious need to be woke and loud, you may even enjoy the good vs evil drama."[15] [16] Komal Nahta of Film Information wrote, "Antim has entertainment value but it lacks novelty."[17] Khaleej Times gave the film 3 out of 5 writing "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."[18]
India Today gave the film 3 out of 5 writing "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."[19]
Antim: The Final Truth earned ₹5.03 crore at the box office on its opening day. On the second day, the film collected ₹6.03 crore. On the third day, the film collected ₹7.55 crore, taking the total domestic opening weekend collection to ₹18.61 crore.[4]
As of December 5, 2021, the film grossed ₹41.19 crore in India and ₹10.39 crore overseas, for a worldwide gross collection of ₹51.58 crore.[4]
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