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Sultan
Film poster
Directed byAli Abbas Zafar
Written byAli Abbas Zafar
Screenplay byAditya Chopra
Produced byAditya Chopra
StarringSalman Khan
Anushka Sharma
Randeep Hooda
Amit Sadh
CinematographyArtur Zurawski
Edited byRameshwar S. Bhagat
Music byVishal-Shekhar
Production
company
Distributed byYash Raj Films
Release date
  • July 6, 2016 (2016-07-06)[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹700 million[2][3]
Box officeest. ₹2.06 billion[4]

Sultan is a 2016 Indian romantic sports-drama film[5][6][7] directed by Ali Abbas Zafar. Produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films banner, the film stars Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma and centers around Sultan Ali Khan (Salman Khan), a wrestler who has problems in his professional and personal life. From a small town wrestler in Haryana, Sultan achieves global fame winning bouts at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, the 2011 FILA Wrestling World Championships in Istanbul and the 2012 London Olympics.[8]The film released on July 6, 2016.

Cast

Production

Casting and development

The project was earlier announced in June 2015 with a teaser released on YouTube.[10] Khan will be seen portraying Haryana-based wrestler in the film.[11][12] Khan underwent wrestling training under the guidance of Larnell Stovall.[13][14][15]

In October 2015, there were reports of American actor Sylvester Stallone being cast in the film as Khan's on-screen coach.[16] However, Raja Mukerji, the Executive Producer of the film cleared that Stallone would not be starring in the film.[17] Later, Sanjay Dutt was then rumored to play the role of coach according to Khan's insistence.[18] However, Khan later reported that he never insisted Aditya Chopra for Dutt's role.[19]

In December 2015, Randeep Hooda was later signed to play the role of Khan's coach in the film.[20][21] Amit Sadh, of Kai Po Che fame was reportedly signed for the role of young Sultan.[22] However, in March 2016, he confirmed that he is playing the role of Khan's younger brother.[23] MMA fighter Tyron Woodley has been signed opposite Khan with other fighters in the film.[24][25][26]

In January 2016, Anushka Sharma was signed to play the female lead role opposite Khan.[27] For her role as a wrestler, Sharma took wrestling lessons for the film.[28][29] In February 2016, Farah Khan was signed as the choreographer of the film, replacing Vaibhavi Merchant who left the film due to personal commitments.[30]

Filming

Pre-production of the film started in October 2015 where Khan posted a photo of his character in the film on Facebook.[31] Principal photography of the film started in December 2015 at N.D Studios, Karjat[32][33] and JW Marriott Mumbai, where the film's first schedule was filmed.[34] Filming of the first schedule had been completed in late December 2015.[35][36] Filming of the second schedule was started in January 2016 where Khan filmed for action sequences.[37][38] A song was filmed in early March 2016, choreographed by Farah.[39] An action sequence between Khan and Sharma was reportedly filmed.[40]The Some of the sequence of the movie will feature 360 year old Jama Masjid of Delhi.[41] In late April 2016 the lead actor Salman Khan was seen riding a scooter as a part of shooting in Muzaffarnagar.[42]

Music

Untitled

The music for Sultan is composed by Vishal–Shekhar while the lyrics are penned by Irshad Kamil. The soundtrack album was released on 31 May 2016. The album consists of 9 songs.[43]

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Baby Ko Bass Pasand Hai"Vishal Dadlani, Shalmali Kholgade, Ishita, Badshah04:13
2."Jag Ghoomeya"Rahat Fateh Ali Khan04:41
3."440 Volt"Mika Singh04:28
4."Sultan"Sukhwinder Singh, Shadab Faridi04:40
5."Sachi Muchi"Mohit Chauhan, Harshdeep Kaur03:59
6."Bulleya"Papon05:57
7."Tuk Tuk"Nooran Sisters, Vishal Dadlani04:12
8."Jag Ghoomeya (Female)"Neha Bhasin04:14
9."Rise of Sultan"Shekhar Ravjiani02:46
Total length:39:10

Release

Online piracy issue

On July 6, 2016, the film's digital copy was reported to be available in the darknet. Confirming that the copy was created from the sample sent by the producers to the CBFC board for review, cyber crime experts investigating the leak said, "The leak is confirmed. The copy of the movie is available on the darknet and soon it will be available on torrent."[44] However, Yash Raj Films, the film's producer, denied such development. Kislay Chaudhary, a private investigator, claimed that the links of the 2 hour, 36 minute-long movie were available, and shared the screenshot of the same with Mail Today. "Many websites have been blocked since Tuesday evening and links were removed immediately," he added.[45]

Box office

India

The film opened with 70-80% occupancy on the day of release.[46] The opening day figures were ₹365.4 million.[3] On the second day the film collected ₹373 million.[3] On the third day, the film raked in ₹315 million.[3] The gross domestic collections for three days were ₹1.46 billion.[3]

Overseas

As of 8 July 2016, the film had earned ₹113.6 million gross in USA and Canada, ₹251.7 million gross in United Arab Emirates and Gulf Cooperation Council, ₹53.9 million gross in United Kingdom, ₹21.4 million gross in Australia, ₹8.5 million gross in New Zealand, ₹5.5 million gross in Malaysia and ₹112.4 million gross from the rest of the world.[3]

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