Farhan Akhtar recently said that he isn’t disturbed by the audience finding similarities between his latest film Toofaan, and Salman Khan’s 2016 film Sultan. Both the films are sports dramas and revolve around the lives of down and out athletes who make a comeback. 

He was recently asked in an interview, that whether the comparisons disturb him or not. He said that the structure of the two films can be the same, but the journeys of the two characters are very different.

He said that broadly speaking, any sportsperson who defies all odds to make a comeback can fall in this category. The film Toofaan is directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and released on July 16 on Amazon Prime Video.

However, we watched the film and didn’t feel that the two movies in any way were similar apart from the outline of the film. So, here are 4 reasons why Farhan Akhtar’s Toofaan and Salman Khan’s Sultan shouldn’t be compared.

Salman Khan’s style of acting and Farhan Akhtar’s acting are completely different. Also, Salman Khan played the role of a wrestler in Sultan and Farhan Akhtar is playing the role of a boxer who lives in Dongri, Maharashtra. 

The film is about a championship boxer who is an orphan and is a local gangster in the area where he lives. He then falls in love with a doctor and gets inspired to become a boxer and gets training under the best boxing coach. The story of the film is extremely intricate and is very different from Salman Khan’s film Sultan. The story also sheds light on the Hindu-Muslim conflict and majorly revolves around the same.

However, it failed to make an impact through the storyline of the film or to even prove a point. 

The characters in the film are very different from Sultan as Farhan Akhtar plays the role of a ‘tapori’ in the film and Mrunal Thakur is a doctor. And Paresh Rawal plays the role of Farhan Akhtar’s coach. 

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra has already proved that he understands sports with his film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag in which Farhan Akhtar played the role of a Olympics runner. This is his second film in the sports arena with Farhan Akhtar where he plays the role of a boxer.

And in every scene throughout the movie, you get to see that the film is directed beautifully.

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