Sikandar Movie Cast/Actors: Salman Khan, Rashmika Mandanna, Sathyaraj, Kajal Aggarwal, Sharman Joshi, Prateik Smita Patil, Anjini Dhawan & Others
Sikandar Movie Director: A.R. Murugadoss
Sikandar Movie Production House: Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment (Sajid Nadiadwala)
Sikandar Movie Release Date: 30th March, 2025
Sikandar Movie Available On: Theatrical Release and (likely to be released on Netflix OTT Platform)
Sikandar Movie Released/Available In Languages: Hindi
Sikandar Movie Runtime: 2h 30m
Sikandar Movie Critic Review:
A privileged, entitled politician’s son (Prateik Smita Patil) has just shamed, blackmailed and attempted to molest a lady passenger when the famous blue bracelet appears out of the blue.
It’s an energetic beginning with a touch of humour as Sanjay Rajkot (Salman Khan), also known as Sikandar and Raja Saab (yes, even in these times), thrashes the goon(s) while the air hostess announces turbulence. The man with the blue bracelet is charming too, when he asks the lady if she’s okay, in the midst of the fight scene. To refer to her past as closed and her little son as her future, gives a glimpse of contemporary chivalry.
One wishes the same energy, the same today’s thought and the same sprinkling of wit had prevailed the rest of the way as outdated writer-director AR Murugadoss takes flights of fantasy to establish Sanjay/Sikandar/Raja Saab. A super wealthy “Rajkot Ka Raja” so large-hearted that the entire population will stand up to protect him, and no policeman dare touch him. One who sets out to arrest him for bashing up the minister’s son, has his jeep broken into pieces and he has to take the offer from smirking “Rani Sahiba” Saisri (Rashmika Mandanna) to use their private cars to return to the police station.
It is the out-of-sync with current times tone that troubles the screenplay and the telling of Raja Saab’s goodness which spills from Rajkot to Mumbai where three organ recipients are brought under his protection. The donor: his late wife.
Pitted against them is the wicked minister (Sathyaraj) whose son Arjun had misbehaved in the opening scene.
In this day and age, for people to reverentially refer to Sanjay as Raja Saab and his wife as Rani Sahiba, for organ recipients to be clueless about the new benefactor on the scene when one click can fetch them reams of information on him, for Mumbai to let the minister have the run of the city even after videos of his “pervert” son’s misbehaviour with a lady on the plane has gone viral, and for Murugadoss-Salman to believe that a stocky hero can repeatedly take on 100s of fighters on his own, shows a disturbing disconnect between Team Sikandar and current times.
Gentlemanly heroism with plenty of action (Wanted, Bajrangi Bhaijaan), a winning way with women and children (Wanted, Bajrangi Bhaijaan), dialogues with a punch and a chuckle (Dabangg), and dances with recall-value music and signature moves (Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Dabangg), have been the hallmarks of a Salman Khan blockbuster.
Murugadoss fails the entertainment metre on all fronts.
Pritam Chakraborty is at best average this time around. There is a soulful Arijit Singh number ‘Hum aapke bina kuch nahi…’ which is pleasant on the ear, an unnecessary ‘Zohra jabeen’ where Salman strains to shake a leg, and by the time the end credits roll with ‘Sikandar naache naache’, you wish the hero wouldn’t be so heavy-footed.
While not a single dialogue has the crisp freshness that marked Dabangg, Salman also delivers his ‘goodness’ with a mumble.
The situations where Raja Saab’s generosity, patronage and lessons in nobility are distributed as “Santa Uncle”, are annoyingly ancient: Dharavi reeling under lung-collapse (Organ recipient No 1 gets new lungs), a south Indian Appa ruling his household like an outdated patriarch (daughter-in-law Kajal Aggarwal as Organ recipient No 2 gets a new pair of eyes), and a college girl (Anjini Dhawan) losing her heart to the wrong boyfriend (Organ recipient No 3 who gets a new heart).
Most of all, it is the action that is a letdown. A film like this required the slickest, never-seen-before action choreography. But the thrill in watching any of the stunts is glaringly missing.
This is not Salman Khan at his heroic best. As for the rest, Sharman Joshi is reduced to an insignificant sidekick, Sathyaraj snarls, Rashmika is always cute but has little to do, but Prateik Smita Patil does well in the tiny opening scene.
By the way, despite the presence of Murugadoss with Sathyaraj and Kajal Aggarwal in the cast, there’s little resemblance to the director’s Vijay Thalapathy-starrer Sarkar (2018) on which Sikandar was rumoured to have been based. Also, why is it titled Sikandar when the hero is referred to as Raja Saab all the way?
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Sikandar Review Score Rating: 1.5 out of 5 (i.e. 1.5/5)
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