Antim: The Final Truth is a 2021 Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar and produced by Salman Khan Films. Salman Khan, Aayush Sharma, and Mahima Makwana appear in this version of the Marathi classic Mulshi Pattern. Zee Studios is in charge of distribution.
The plot centres around a confrontation between a Sikh police officer (Khan) and a criminal (Sharma), and, like the original, it highlights the harsh conditions that drive some farmers to commit crimes. On November 26, 2021, the film was released theatrically over the world.
Cast of Antim: The Final Truth
- Salman Khan played Rajveer Singh, a Sikh police officer
- Aayush Sharma as Rahul Patil / Rahulya, a Gangster
- Mahima Makwana as Manda, Rahulya’s lover
- Jisshu Sengupta as Pitya
- Nikitin Dheer as Daya
- Sachin Khedekar as Dattaram Patil, Rahulya’s father
- Chhaya Kadam as Dhurpi Patil, Rahulya’s mother
- Mahesh Manjrekar as Satya
- Upendra Limaye as Nanya
The film’s underlying topic of the social cost of growth is easy to connect to, especially in light of recent farmer protests. A farmer (Sachin Khedekar) is compelled to sell his property. He is reduced to a security team guarding what was once his own fields, since he spends the majority of his money on family commitments. He feels ashamed because he is harvesting vegetables from the ground he used to tend.
His son Rahul (Aayush Sharma) is unable to comprehend this shift, in which human dignity and social position are rarely considered while determining the value of agricultural property. When the family relocates to Pune, Rahul finds himself in a Deewar’s dock situation, where the enraged young man takes up someone else’s struggle. It snowballs into a chain of events, and Rahul is drawn into a maelstrom of crime and politics, distancing him from his morally upright father. Rahul, like the Vijay of old, is pursued not just by the authorities and rival gangsters, but also by his conscience.
Manjrekar, unlike many contemporary Bollywood films, does not normalise wickedness. He makes it a level playing field for characters on both sides of the moral divide. When Rahul tries to take his land, his instructor spits on him. When buying pain medicine, the inebriated father (Manjrekar himself in a delightful cameo) of Manda, the girl (Mahima Makwana makes a confident debut) Rahul loves, remarks, “How could he invest in a man whose shelf life is so short?”
Although unscrupulous political leaders have constrained the hands of the honest cop, he may still put a mobster or a self-serving lawyer in his place. Such images harken back to the Salim Javed period of mainstream film, when the anti-hero was repeatedly confronted with himself in the mirror.
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The arrival of a Sikh police officer in Pune clash with the relocation of a farmer’s family from Mulshi village. Datta Patil (Sachin Khedekar), a former champion wrestler, has been relegated to working as a security guard in a house built on a parcel of property that the grandfather was forced to sell for a pittance. Before his father leaves the countryside with his family to work as a porter in the Pune market yard, the onetime wrestler’s hot-headed son Rahul (Aayush Sharma in his sophomore outing) fights with the abrasive real-estate mogul. The restless youngster, who is always looking for a battle, takes out his frustrations on a gang of goons at the uprooted farmer’s job.
Antim is full of dramatisation and action moments, as well as dialogue-heavy clashes between the man in uniform and the Pune mafia kingpins who drive farmers off their land and deprive them of their dignity. Salman is in his element, especially in the final portions. He preens and postures but keeps his phrases short and sweet. Manjrekar, Abhijeet Deshpande, and Siddharth Salvi’s script touches on important subjects in several portions. Other sections of the film skim over the thorny issues at the heart of the story. In order to soften the film’s core for the Salman Khan fan base.
In more ways than one, Antim: The Final Truth is a film in which there is no tomorrow. The protagonist does not have a future, as is often stated. The movie actually plays out in a way that implies it is anxious to cram as much as it can into as little time as possible without sacrificing the benefit of Salman Khan’s star power. Antim dabbles with metafiction on occasion. “Main Pune ka naya Bhai hoon,” Aayush’s character proclaims before a combat.
“Tu Pune ka naya Bhai hain, main toh pehle se hi Hindustan ka Bhai hoon,” Salman’s Rajveer Singh retorts. The distinction between the celebrity and the character is obliterated. The erasure occurs several times throughout the 142-minute Antim.
Salman, on the other hand, falls short of expectations. He decides to play Rajveer in a cautious, controlled manner despite the fact that he has no backstory. His fight with Rahul would have been a lot more exciting if he had given the airbrushed Sikh figure a bit more colour. Perhaps he intended the spotlight to be on Aayush, but his rigid demeanour serves neither the film nor his followers.
