REPORT
6 things you didn't know
about Salman Khan's
'Sultan'
T
he Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma starrer
Sultan has finally released its trailer, revealing a
much deeper story than just a muscular Salman
Khan wrestling in the dirt. At the trailer launch, Salman
revealed several interesting facts about his upcoming
film.
1. Most of the fights in the movie are real
“When Ali narrated the story to me, I thought I’ll be able
to do it. But then while doing it, opposite me were not
fighters but real wrestlers. Most of the shots in the film
are real, wrestlers and mixed martial arts, there are
no cables and because of them there is lot of contact
happening in the film. When they lift you and put to the
ground it used to hurt,” Salman as saying at the trailer
launch.
2. Salman and Anushka’s love affair in the movie falls
flat
“He (Sultan) is a simple man who has no ambition. He
sees a feisty girl and falls in love with her. She’s a wrestler, he’s a nobody but he feels whenever I get married,
it will be with her. That falls flat because she is so strongheaded. She missunderstands him. Then it’s all about
Sultan, how he goes down, and how he comes back with
the help of the woman he loves. How the woman is responsible for making him, breaking him and because of
her how he starts making it again,” Salman revealed at
the event on Tuesday.
3. Training for Sultan took a toll on Salman
One of the fittest stars in Bollywood, Salman Khan went
through intensive training of wrestling and mixed martial arts for the movie with international action director
Larnell Stovall. “When a wrestler trains he trains for 2-3
hours and then 2-3 hours again in the evening, then
training for MMA, and 6-7 hours of shoot every day nonstop, fighting non-stop. So those six hours in those lights
and training, that used to take a toll,” Salman explains.
4. The story of Sultan is not based on a real-life character
When asked if the story was inspired by a real-life character, Salman responded, “No, it’s not from anywhere.
This is from his (director Ali Abbas Zafar’s) mind. It is the
story of an underdog.”
5. Salman Khan felt violated while shooting for Sultan
“The most difficult part was the langot. Now, I understand what the actress goes through when they wear
swim suit. When I was told I have to wear a langot, I
thought I can do that. When I reached there, we saw
like a 5,000 crowd and I was like no way I am doing this.
While I was walking out of the vanity van, I was in tears…
I felt violated,” Salman told. “I was never ashamed while
removing my shirt but this was the most difficult thing
and thank God, people got used to it,” he continued.
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