It’s surprising, and might we add refreshing, when Mahesh Manjrekar opens the conversation with: “I didn’t want any Salman-giri in the film, or what people typically expect from him.” This, when many filmmakers in Bollywood are happy to sell their movies on a singular factor — Salman Khan. But Manjrekar had envisioned Antim: The Final Truth as a gritty and honest film. “I wanted [Salman to play] a regular cop who wants to do his duty, but is handicapped due to the forces above him. I wanted that helplessness in him, and Salman brought that on [screen].” 

Mahesh Manjrekar