The First Draft of Sultan Was Called 'Dangal' Reveals Sultan Director

Both Aamir and Salman Khan are set to feature as wrestlers in their next film - Dangal and Sultan respectively. The superstars have clarified that the movies however, are very different from each other. However, Sultan director Ali Abbas Zafar mentioned about an uncanny resemblence between the two films, in a recent interview.

He said, "It's bizarre when I wrote this script, I had no idea that there was any other film that was ever going to get made on wrestling. I wrote this film in 2012, it's almost four years since. And I can tell you now that the first draft of Sultan was called Dangal. The first 10 pages, which I mailed to Adi, was titled Dangal."

He added though that Sultan is a much better title for the film. "Yes, because the character was called Sultan, but the journey was about fighting within. Also, the title Sultan was not with us. It was with Ramesh Taurani, and I thought, Yaar, agar nahi milalega toh kya karenge?' But Taurani gave the title rights up for Salman's sake."

He further added, "Dangal means a wrestling competition. When I travelled in Haryana for research in 2012, I would ask people about the matches and they would say, Aaj dangal chaupal pe hai, aaj dangal nadi ke paas hai.' I just thought ek jo charm tha uss title ka, bahut honest charm tha."

Well, what do you think of that?