Antim: The Final Truth

Mahesh Manjarekar in his outings in the last one and half decades appeared a pale shadow of his older version, the one who gave us masterpieces like Astitva or Vaastav. Even though he made some interesting Marathi films meanwhile, Bollywood was definitely missing his golden form. Finally, with Antim, Mahesh Manjarekar is back in his pristine form and the audience is gifted with one of the finest entertainers of recent years. Antim is an outright entertainer with honest intentions and does not unnecessarily glorify its Alpha Male The Salman Khan.

The problem with Bollywood is that it has embraced trash films of Salman Khan like Dabaang or Ready where all he did was defying gravity, breaking the laws of physics and showing his torso and when he has actually delivered a nuanced performance, everyone is trying to undermine his efforts. Bollywood since the arrival of Covid-19 has been waiting for a smasher like Antim and the Mumbai film industry seriously needs more Antims to ensure sustenance of lakhs of people who earn their daily bread and butter through such films.

The surprise in Antim is its protagonist Ayush Sharma, who has exceeded all expectations in this author backed role. He is calm when the scenes demand him to be so. He is expressive at the right moments. And his 'panga' with his megastar Jiju in this movie is a treat to watch. Salman is astonishingly restrained. It is indeed a heartening feeling seeing the macho actor in a role which demanded very little from him, yet he delivered one of his most memorable performances till date. Debutant Mahima is a treat to watch in certain scenes. The background scores are fantastic. As already said, Mahesh Manjarekar is back in form in direction.

Overall, this is a classy mass entertainer which everyone will enjoy watching with the whole family. Kudos to Salman Khan and team for coming up with such a slick project. Do not listen to those idiots with calls for boycotting this movie. A film like this should be celebrated not boycotted. Go, have your popcorn and enjoy Antim with one and only Salman Khan.

It's far better than all latest released movie like Bell Bottom, Sooryavanshi, Laxmi, Satyamev Jayate etc.

Antim is totally Mind blowing well scripted movie. Best Action, Best Dialogues, Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Background music... Seeti maar Performance by Aayush Sharma.

Salman Khan is the backbone of this movie .

His part is also fantastic & brilliant.

Actually he is not lead actor .. but his role most powerful ..... Better than Srk did in Dear Zindagi, Akshay did in shaukeen , OMG & naam shabana.

I am giving 9 points. For Story, acting, direction & bgm.

Go and watch this movie.

Vintage Salman Khan is back and in an avatar we all love him to see. He delivers a solid performance with powerful screen presence. Aayush Sharma also packs a punch with an intense performance. Mahima Makwana stands out in her role and delivers mind blowing performance too. Mahesh Manjrekar has hit the bullseye with hard hitting content and delivers what was promised. Climax is to watch out for. Must watch!

Went with zero expectations in the theatre considering I haven't seen a good Salman Khan's movie since 3-4 years but this surprised the heck out of me, all thanks to Director Mahesh Manjerakar who made the concept gritty and powerpacked till the end.

Salman Khan finally didn't played himself for once and totally got immersed in the character, reminded me of his character in 'Garv' and for a debutant, Aayush Sharma as Gangster Rahulia was pretty good.

This movie will be well-liked by the public, especially from those who are neutrals or don't like Salman Khan as an actor, they are in for a treat. Movies like 'Antim' is what we wanted from Salman, if he is smart, he will utilise the goodwill he gained from this movie, which he lost after doing movies like Radhe, Race 3 and Dabangg 3.

Directors like Remo and Prabhu literally were on course to destroy Salman's career but finally he has given chance to a much better director and this is the result.

Antim, a gangster drama, as a whole may not be the best film, or anything new, but it was quite an interesting watch. The first half was quite fast paced and interesting but the 2nd half felt like a real drag! Still it revives itself in the final climax which seemed quite good with that adrenaline pumping BGM by Ravi Basrur.

This is a rare film where Salman is demoted to a secondary role. If you follow entertainment page, you will know Salman was quite uninterested in doing this film solely because of this secondary kinda role. Still his performance is not over the top. After ages, after Bajrangi Bhaijaan, i am seeing SK where he is so grounded and trying nothing too over the top. Even in his dialogue delivery he is quite low in tone mostly and not shouting and giving some cringy dialogues like in that Radhe disaster. SK should do more of these kind of roles to reduce is hate base.

Aayush sharma is the main lead and honestly speaking, he looked quite decent but still needs quite some improvements. He felt average in emotional scenes but in the wicked scenes, he was exhilarating.

Mahima Makwana and her father, the director himself, initally reminded me of Sonakshi's role from Dabangg, a village girl having a drunk father. Mahima looks so hot but cant say much about her performance.

Sachin Khedkar is good and Upendra is amazing in his short role. Upendra in Mulshi Pattern was the police and here his the gangster.

The BGM surely elevates the level of the action sequences and the action scenes definitely this time are not over the top, proper hand to hand combats and gun fights.

Overall, a film which i would rate 6 stars but as I am seeing such a decent SK film after a long time, i give it 2 bonus stars.