Antim: The Final Truth Movie Review: Salman Khan’s On-Screen Persona And Aayush Sharma’s Hardcore Image Makes ‘Antim’ A Fairly Decent Watch

After 2 years, Salman Khan is back on the big screen with a newcomer Aayush Sharma to take his die-hard fans on an action-packed ride. Antim: The Final Truth takes the basic idea from Marathi Hit Mulshi Pattern (2018) and extends the heroic stuff up to Salman Khan's level. Mahesh Manjrekar handles a good subject, a message actually, in an hardcore action film that can be enjoyed by masses with no excuses. Antim has its flaws in those cliches, which Manjrekar took from multiple masala entertainers, but otherwise it's a perfect entertaining film for mainstream Hindi audience. Antim revolves around Rahuliya (Aayush Sharma) who gets into the dark universe of the underworld and sees the potential of being a famous gangster after his father loses his farm. On the other side, we have Rajveer Singh (Salman Khan), an honest cop who wants to clear this gangster culture from society. Antim is a face-off between these two powerful characters, one good and one bad and on the sideline it has a social issue running together with the main narrative. The story is similar to Mulshi Pattern with additional changes favouring Salman Khan's extended cameo. The same out-an-out Salman Khan hysteria we have been experiencing over the years is carried here again with a new perspective of an honest cop played by the superstar.Aayush Sharma has gone through a terrific transformation for the role and his hard work can be seen on screen. With that ferocious and violent characteristics, he manages to stand against Salman Khan and quite confidently. Mahima Makwana looks beautiful in all the romantic scenes but then her acting talent comes out in that one scene towards the end where she expresses her anger against Rahulya in front of the crowd. The supporting cast is fairly decent with Upendra Limaye being a show-stealer with his brilliant accent. The music of Antim is a big bonus for the masses. Bhai Ka Birthday is a crazy dance number and it makes you groove on it. Varun Dhawan's special appearance in Vighnaharta is pleasant but the song is more about situational importance. Overall, Ravi Basrur and Hitesh Modak's album has enough candies for the masses. As expected, Antim has those whistle worthy dialogues coming from Salman Khan with that extreme machoism and even Aayush goes on saying a couple good one-liners.Mahesh Manjarekar is not a regular mass friendly director like Rohit Shetty. His filmography is full of varieties, from Vaastav to Astitva to Kaksparsh to Natsamrat, he has tried his hands in different genres. With Antim he comes back to that Gangster genre, which gave him recognition way back in 1999, and despite old techniques, he still manages to make a good crime-action drama. As a whole, Antim is definitely a watchable mass-oriented flick and with Salman Khan's proper mass-mania it gets you the worth of your purchase.RATING - 3/5*