‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant

In his latest film Sikandar, Salman Khan plays Sanjay Rajkot, the former king of Rajkot who has a massive manor and a lordly manner. Sanjay’s devoted subjects drop everything and amass like a zombie herd whenever he is in trouble – which is almost never, since he can take very good care of himself.

Apart from being a one-man army, Sanjay controls 25% of the country’s gold reserves, we are told. His mansion has a table long enough to fit a neighbourhood but he doesn’t get enough time from maintaining Pax Rajkota to pay enough attention to his wife Saisri (Rashmika Mandanna). Does this matter? It does until it doesn’t.

Sanjay’s bruising encounter with Arjun (Prateik), the odious son of the odious Maharashtra minister Pradhan (Sathyaraj), provokes Pradhan into declaring a war on Sanjay. Just like Sanjay has absolute reign over Rajkot, Pradhan too assembles the entire government machinery to take on Sanjay.

That’s about it in the latest effort from AR Murugadoss, whose chief claim to fame is stealing Christopher Nolan’s Memento for his Ghajini films. While Murugadoss’s script stops making sense early on, the dialogue by Rajat Arora, Hussain Dalal and Abbas Dalal is so dire that it is hilarious in its own right.

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