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Released
2016 · FILM

Sultan

Aged wrestling legend Sultan Ali Khan fights back onto the mat with one dream—to earn an Olympic berth for his nation—while confronting the personal demons and strained relationships that threaten to keep him down forever.

“Wrestling is not a sport. Its about fighting what lies within”

Directed by
Ali Abbas Zafar
Written by
Ali Abbas Zafar
Rated
CBFC · UA
Runtime
170 min
Language
HI
ActionDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

Sultan Ali Khan, an aging wrestler, decides to return to the mat and pursue a new opportunity. His goal is to represent his country at the Olympic Games, but he must first address and overcome personal challenges.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 28

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Rameshwar S BhagatShot by Artur ZurawskiScored by Vishal DadlaniDesigned by Rajnish Hedao

Box Office

2016 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$102.0M

Budget$10.4M
Worldwide gross$102.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $6.2M — 6% of worldwide · International: $95.8M (94%)

Opening weekend: $1.0M — 16% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $1.0M — 16% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 278 theaters

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