Salman Khan starrer “Sultan” has won the Best Action Movie award at the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF).

Within the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Jackie Chan Action Movie Week focuses on a selection of the best in action, special effects, and performances by action stars from China and the Asia Pacific.

Prakash Gupta, Consul General of India, Shanghai, accepted this award on behalf of the movie’s production banner Yash Raj Films (YRF), read a statement issued on Saturday.

The film’s director Ali Abbas Zafar said: “We are very happy with all the love and respect we got at SIFF. Receiving an award under the action category from Jackie Chan is just super special. As a child, he has been one of the most inspiring action stars for me and many Indians.

“‘Sultan’ is about desi, Indian wrestling and it’s raw power. Amidst a selection of brilliant action films that present the most refined martial arts, the film’s win is rewarding, and reflects that a good story based on action has universal appeal.”

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Avtar Panesar, Vice President, International Operations, YRF, said: “‘Sultan’ has broken new ground in presenting classic, home grown Indian action on the big screen. The love from audiences in China is very gratifying, and the top prize at the Jackie Chan Action Movie Week is an achievement that we are proud of.”

“Sultan” will release in China later this year.

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Actor Salman Khan has heaped praise on Aamir Khan’s latest release “Dangal”, a biographical wrestling drama which hit the screens worldwide on Friday, calling it a much better film than his own release “Sultan”.

In Ali Abbas Zaffar’s “Sultan”, which released earlier this year, Salman played a wrestling champion from Haryana whose successful career wreaks havoc in his personal life.

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“My family saw ‘Dangal’ and thought it was a much better film than ‘Sultan’. Love you personally Aamir but hate you professionally,” wrote Salman on his Twitter page on Friday.

Aamir responded to his tweet by saying: “Salman Khan, in your ‘hate’ I feel only love. ‘I love you like I hate you’.”

Directed by Nitesh Tiwari, and based on an incredible true story, “Dangal” chronicles the highly inspiring and empowering journey of a father who trains his daughters in wrestling.

In the film, Aamir plays Mahavir Singh Phogat, a former national champion who, much to the disapproval of his wife and his whole village, trained his daughters Geeta and Babita to wrestle.

“Dangal” has been dubbed in Tamil and Telugu.

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Bollywood actors Sushant Singh Rajput and Disha Patani – who starred together in “M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story”, and superstar Salman Khan’s “Sultan” were amongst the top searches on Google in 2016.

Google India on Wednesday issued a statement of the 2016 recap of trending stories — biggest moments, major events and user interests based on the searches made by Indians on Google in 2016, and the names of the personalities who dominated Google.

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Among the Bollywood leads, Sushant and Disha emerged on the top trending charts of male and female stars.

Among the female actors, Urvashi Rautela, Pooja Hegde and Mandana Karimi were also part of the searches.

After Sushant, Kabir Bedi was the Top Trending Bollywood Actor (Male), followed by Harshvardhan Kapoor, Pulkit Samrat and Salman Khan.

In terms of movies, Salman’s blockbuster film “Sultan” peaked among the top trending titles, followed closely by Rajinikanth’s blockbuster film “Kabali”. Shahid Kapoor starrer “Udta Punjab”, Akshay Kumar’s “Airlift” and Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma starrer “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” also made it to the list.

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The shot of an overweight Aamir Khan riding a rickety two-wheeler through a ramshackle town, brings back memories of Salman Khan in “Sultan” all over again. But “Dangal” opens up a different realm of wrestling.

It is the story of a proud but kindhearted, gentle and guardedly liberal patriarch who, when the trailer opens, hopes his fourth-born would be a son whom he can nurture into a gold-medalist wrestler.

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That’s the crux of this simple heart-warming story. The trailer strings together moments that bead a beautiful bouquet of unfulfilled dreams and fulfilled aspirations. It seems that Nitesh Tiwari directorial is not keen on creating complex gender dynamics through the film.

“Dangal” is the story of a retired, unsuccessful wrestler with four daughters — who decides to make his daughters do what is conventionally the male heir’s domain — fulfil the father’s unfinished dreams.

There is an interesting little scene in the trailer where the mother of two boys beaten black and blue comes to complain. The wrestler patriarch presumes it’s his nephew who thrashed the boys. But no, it’s the wrestler’s two daughters who quietly tell their dad they beat up the boys for calling the girls unflattering names.

This is a turning point in the script. The trailer gives us an array of solid performers. The four girls playing the two wrestler-daughters at two different stages are amazing at their job. Sakshi Tanwar as Aamir’s wife is quietly expressive. But make no mistake this is again an Aamir Khan vehicle. He gets flabby for the first segment and sinewy and muscled for the second segment.

All of it, will add up to a complete family drama where the girl child will be given the chance to dazzle in the ‘akhaada’ (ring). This is what makes the trailer of “Dangal” special.

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Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma starrer Sultan has left everyone awestruck, as the movie has crossed 500 crore-mark internationally. The movie has now become the fifth highest grossing film, after Dhoom 3, Baahubali, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and PK.

Sultan is likely to beat Dhoom 3, and give stiff competition to Baahubali and Bajrangi Bhaijaan, but it is unlikely to beat Aamir Khan’s PK, which grossed Rs 792 crore at the box office. The Salman-starrer joined the 100 crore club within three days of its release, and has been riding high ever since.

After the fantastic opening in the first week, the Ali Abbas Zafar directorial venture, has earned 267.31 crore from India, while the rest have come from overseas collections. Even the controversy surrounding Salman’s inappropriate remarks just before the release didn’t affect the movie.

Meanwhile, Salman is now preparing for his movie Tubelight, which is likely to his the big screens on Eid, next year. The movie will be directed by Kabir Khan, with the 1962 Sino-Indian war being the center of the story. The shooting is currently on hold because of recent unrest in the Kashmir Valley.

The leading lady in the movie is yet to be named. According to reports, Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone have been approached for the role.

Salman Khan is one of the most celebrated yet controversial Bollywood stars. He has seen the highs of giving some of the biggest hits, to the lows of spending time behind bars and in the court rooms.

In a season of biopics, where movies like MS Dhoni – The Untold Story and Dangal are hitting the big screens soon; there would be many takers, who would want to make a biopic on Salman’s life. A Salman Khan biopic would be worth watching, but the Sultan star thinks otherwise.

“See, my life is very boring aur boring life par koi biopic banti nahin hai (no one makes biopics on boring subjects),” Salman was quoted by an entertainment website. “Meri biopic ke andar bahut sare log mar jaayenge yaar (People will die watching my biopic).”

When asked if there is any director, who can make a biopic on his life, Salman said that he would never allow anyone to make a movie on him. The Dabang star also said there is also no actor, who can essay his role on the big screen.

“I will never give permission to anyone to make a biopic on me because for that one will have to write it down and the only one who can write it down is me or my brothers or my sisters…that too at some bits,” Salman insisted. “They also don’t know everything. And no actor can play my role.”

A biopic on the life of Salman’s best friend, Sanjay Dutt is going on the floor. The movie will be directed by Rajkumar Hirani, with Ranbir Kapoor in the lead role. “It will not be complete without me being part of it,” Salman said.

Salman Khan’s Sultan is on a record-breaking rampage. The movie has already made more than 400 crores at the box office, and is going strong to challenge films like Dhoom 3, Baahubali, and PK. The movie has been praised by actors, fans and critics alike, and has received good response overall.

Aamir Khan, who is also Salman’s good friend, has acclaimed the movie, and hasn’t stopped talking about the film ever since. The PK star, in an interview, had said that he got emotional after watching Sultan and later texted Salman to tell him how much he liked the film.

Salman admitted that he had received Aamir’s text after the release, and his Andaz Apna Apna actor praised his work. He also revealed that Mr. Perfectionist didn’t point out any flaw in Sultan, and he termed the movie ‘terrific and fantastic’.

“Aamir didn’t point out a single flaw in Sultan,” Salman said. “He said that the film was terrific and fantastic in every department script, screenplay, action, performances, dialogue, music, everything.”

Salman’s physique is giving other stars a run for their money in Sultan, and he is looking at his best physically, after a while. The superstar, meanwhile, has credited the team for making him look good.

“Anushka made me look good in the film,” Salman insisted. “Music, lyrics, dialogue, screenplay and director Ali Abbas Zafar made me look good in the film.”

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Sultan is turning out to be a record-breaking venture for Salman Khan, as within three days of its release, the movie has entered into the 100 crore club. This is now the 10th time in a row that a Salman-starrer has entered into the coveted club, which is phenomenal to say the least.

The movie, released on July 6, starring Salman, Anushka Sharma and Randeep Hooda, gathered Rs 73.7 crore within two days, while on Friday, theaters have reported a turnout of about 80 per cent, taking the movie in the 100 crore club in just three days.

According to market analysts, Sultan’s box office collection is only going to improve in the weekend, and the movie is likely to cross a mark of Rs 150 crore easily in next two days. Randeep Hooda tweeted: Loving the response! Congratulations team #Sultan.

The movie is now competing with Shah Rukh Khan’s Happy New Year, which got a record 108.8 crore on first three days. Sultan is riding high on positive reviews that it has got, while both single screens and multiplexes are also giving the wrestling-drama a great response.

Along with Salman, the movie has turned out to be a major success for Yash Raj Films, who were in deficit after movies like Fan, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy and Daawat-e-Ishq. Meanwhile, this is the third time Anuskha Sharma has given a 100 crore movie.

Shah Rukh Khan has no intentions of exploring the wrestling genre like his Bollywood co-stars Salman Khan and Aamir Khan. Salman’s wrestling-based Sultan is currently in theatres, while Aamir is coming up with Dangal, which is releasing later this year.

The Badshah insisted that he doesn’t look like a wrestler anyways, so let his counterparts handle that genre. SRK, who has previously worked in a sports-drama Chak De India, said he will stick to romance and has no plans of changing the genre.

“Let Aamir and Salman handle wrestling. Two of them are enough to handle wrestling,” Shah Rukh said in a media interaction. “Above all I don’t look like a wrestler from any angle. I am a romantic hero and I don’t know wrestling.”

Shah Rukh’s next release is Raees, which was pushed to next year for averting clash with Salman’s Sultan. Raees was slated to hit the theaters, alongwith Sultan, this Eid.

SRK said, alongwith his injury, limited screens was also the reason behind postponement of Raees. Now, the movie will hit big screens on January 26 next year.

“When two films release at the same time, we don’t get the big theatrical release we want,” SRK pointed out. “Budget of the film suffers if the movie is not releasing on 4,000 screens.”

“One needs to have 8,000 to 10,000 theatres for two movies to release at the same time,” he added. “I don’t think two big films can release at the same time.”

Kubra Sait’s big Bollywood moment is here as she plays a substantial role in Salman Khan-starrer Sultan. Kubra is a finance graduate but made a mark as a event host in the gulf. She moved to Mumbai and got her first break in Bollywood in Ready, again a Salman Khan movie. She has also won an award for the best female emcee for live entertainers.